Question

I have a rails app I am currently working on. I have deployed to a linode server using ubuntu 12.10 and am getting a lovely “We’re sorry, but something went wrong.” message. I have been looking inside the log files for any indication what could be wrong, but nothing appears to be throwing an error.

Known

1. Works locally in both development and production mode
2. Error logs says nothing other then accessing the database
3. rake db:migrate database configuration does not specify adapter
4. RAILS_ENV=production rake db:create results in password authentication failed for user “deployer”
5. user/owner inside postgresql is “tasks” and the password matches what I have inside database.yml

I have been looking around stackoverflow trying to find any related errors, but I have not found a solution that works.

Thanks in advance for your time.

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deployer@Asphodel:~/apps/TaskWebsite/current$ RAILS_ENV=production rake db:create
FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "deployer"
FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "deployer"
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:1213:in `initialize'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:1213:in `new'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:1213:in `connect'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:329:in `initialize'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:28:in `new'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:28:in `postgresql_connection'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:309:in `new_connection'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:319:in `checkout_new_connection'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:241:in `block (2 levels) in checkout'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:236:in `loop'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:236:in `block in checkout'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:233:in `checkout'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:96:in `block in connection'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:95:in `connection'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:404:in `retrieve_connection'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:170:in `retrieve_connection'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:144:in `connection'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:107:in `rescue in create_database'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:51:in `create_database'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:40:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:40:in `each'
/home/deployer/apps/TaskWebsite/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:40:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:205:in `call'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:205:in `block in execute'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:200:in `each'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:200:in `execute'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:158:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:151:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:144:in `invoke'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:116:in `invoke_task'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:94:in `block (2 levels) in top_level'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:94:in `each'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:94:in `block in top_level'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:133:in `standard_exception_handling'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:88:in `top_level'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:66:in `block in run'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:133:in `standard_exception_handling'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:63:in `run'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/bin/rake:33:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/local/bin/rake:23:in `load'
/usr/local/bin/rake:23:in `<main>'
Couldn't create database for {"adapter"=>"postgresql", "encoding"=>"unicode", "database"=>"tasks_production", "pool"=>5, "host"=>"localhost", "user"=>"tasks", "password"=>"blahblah"}

Answer 1

What does the production configuration look like in your database.yml? It looks like the user specified there is “deployer”, which would be incorrect if the user in the cluster is “tasks” like you mentioned. If the username and password there is correct, I would start troubleshooting by trying to connect to the cluster via some other client – my personal preference is to just use the psql utility. You can connect like this (assuming psql is in your path) –

psql -h localhost -U deployer postgres

The “postgres” database is created by default in a new data cluster. Once you can get connected with a different client, update the production config in your database.yml with whatever changes are necessary and try again.