Frequently Asked Questions

Here are a few things you can do to help if you run into any trouble with the installation process. If you need assistance, join the #website channel in our official Girl Develop It Slack.

    Is the server running locally and accepting
    connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

Generally, this error means that you do not have a postgres process started on your machine. Try doing the following steps:

1. Make sure ~/Library/LaunchAgents does not include *.plist.
2. Restart your computer.
3. Make sure that there is a postgres process running on your machine.
4. Add this to your ~/.bash_profile: export PGHOST=localhost.
5. Restart terminal or run source ~/.bash_profile.
6. Try rake or createdb commands again.

After that, you can run rails server to start the server on port 3000 or rails console for a REPL.

Upgrading PostgreSQL from 9.2.*

1. Uninstall PostgreSQL.
2. sh rm rf /usr/local/var/postgres/ (or wherever you have your postgres/ directory).
3. Install PostgreSQL 9.3.