Question

I tried to precompile assets, and I got an error, which i looked up and it said to change my database.yml file. Fine. Now I’m getting this:

$ bin/rake assets:clean
rake aborted!
(<unknown>): found character that cannot start any token while scanning for the next token at line 9 column 1
-- etc --

database.yml

default: &default
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  pool: 5
  username: username
  password:

development:
  <<: *default
  database: db/username_dev

test: &test
  <<: *default
  database: db/username_test

Answer 1

Figured out the answer when I pasted the code into the question. The issue was that there were tab indentations, which broke it.

Moral of the story: Use soft tabs (2 spaces) for the database.yml file.