Question

For a new project I’m trying to run postgres locally.

Mac Lion has Postgres installed (9.1.2). I modified my path in .bash_profile (per another SO thread) so now I have no trouble creating a database or user using the psql utility.

I uninstalled and re-installed the pg gem (0.13.2) using env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg per the excellent blog at http://blog.willj.net/2011/05/31/setting-up-postgresql-for-ruby-on-rails-development-on-os-x/

My Gemfile uses the pg gem for development, test, and production. I’ve run bundle install.

My database.yml looks like this (and the username and database names are correct and I verified I can access the database fr that username using the psql utility):

development:
 adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  database: ddchart_development
  pool: 5
  username: ddchart
  password:

(same for test and production, except _test and _production. Password is blank, right?)

When I run bundle exec rake db:migrate it aborts:

rake aborted!
couldn't parse YAML at line 8 column 10

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

If you pasted the code correctly, there are errors in the code. For example, there’s only one space before “adapter”, but two before following lines.

In YAML, indentation matters.