`initialize': the scheme postgres does not accept registry part: postgres:@ (or bad hostname?) (URI::InvalidURIError) with Docker

Question

I\'m using Rails with Postgres DB Docker container attached. It looks like I\'m getting below error when I run rails c:

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Answer 1

Rename your environment variable!

DATABASE_URL is reserved by Rails, and interpreted by ActiveRecord itself. I ran into the same issue.

Instead, use something like this:

    host:     <%= ENV['DB_HOST'] %>
    password: <%= ENV['DB_PWD'] %>