Mac OSX Mountain Lion Rails Postgres (wiped out a lot of stuff)

Having trouble with Postgres since I upgraded to Mountain Lion (and now regretting it). Lost hours trying to fix it to no avail.

When running rails server then visiting my app at 0.0.0.0:3000 I get this error.

psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory. Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

tried updating xcode.

kurtybot

Posted 2012-09-15T08:22:53.673

Reputation: 131

Can you verify that postgres is in fact running? – nneonneo – 2012-09-15T08:36:12.240

'ps aux | grep postgres' yields '1870 0.0 0.0 2432768 596 s002 S+ 1:38AM 0:00.01 grep postgres' – kurtybot – 2012-09-15T08:40:02.910

1That would suggest that postgres is not running (the only output is the grep command itself). So maybe you need to reinstall PostgreSQL? – nneonneo – 2012-09-15T08:41:04.357

maybe. i know that mac osx mountain lion has it by default, but how to set that up with rails isn't clear to me. gonna try brew install postgresql and see what happens. – kurtybot – 2012-09-15T08:54:12.977

did brew install postgresql and still have the same error – kurtybot – 2012-09-16T20:10:37.273

Mac OSX Mountain Lion Rails Postgres (wiped out a lot of stuff)

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