rake db:create fails, authentication problem with postgresql 8.4

Question

first things first, please excuse my utter noobness. I really tried to find a solution out there, but now i\'m stuck and completely clueless.

i\'m trying to deploy a rai

Answer 1

I had same problem. In my case it was because in my database.yml file the username started with capital letter but in database it was all lower case.

Solution: When creating user from postgres command line, it converts all letters to lowercase. For using capital letters, double quotes must be used.

Example:

create user AlbertEinstein; result = alberteinstein

vs

create user "AlbertEinstein"; result = AlbertEinstein