error with postgresql datababse : Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket “/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432”?

Question

When I run the rake db:migrate or run the rails s command, I get the same error:

Error : could not connect to server: 
No such file or         


        

Answer 1

When I run into this error, my Postgres server was actually listening on a different port (5433) and not 5432. To solve this, add

port: 5433

to your database.yml file to instruct rails to use the same