Rake Problem w/ Postgresql 7.x on Debian Sarge

Rails
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originally posted this on rForum list , but maybe some Postgres experts
here can give me a quick pointer?

thanks

-A

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Hey folks,

I’m having a heck of a time trying to get Rails to talk to the
Postgresql installed on my debian box.

Here is the setup on my LayeredTech dedicated box:

Debian Sarge
Postgresql 7.x
Ruby 1.8.2
Rails 1.1.6
rForum latest (933) -----> this is where I’m getting the problem
postgres-pr gem (v 0.4.0)
postgres gem (had compile probs so un-installed it)

here is what I have already done:

== created a forum database in PostgreSQL
== create a user for it with password
== installed postgres and postgres-pr gems (got a few errors in the
postgres
install, but it claims the gem was “installed” but I de-activated it)

===>>>> tried rake db:migrate which craps out with the following error:

rake aborted!
FATAL C28000 MIDENT authentication failed for user “tingforum”
Fauth.c L395 Rauth_failed

the full trace is located here: http://pastebin.com/773941

I keep getting authentication errors regardless of which postgres gem I
use. I tried the pure ruby one just to test, and got the above error.

NOTE: I did fix the pg_hba.conf file for Postgres to accept cleartext or
MD5 hashes and it seems to work fine from the commandline (i can connect
with the db via psql) The above test was run with ‘password’ as the
method ie NO IDENT/SAMEUSER stuff in the conf file.

I’m at a loss, maybe someone can give a pointer?

thanks,

Amr

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On 8/23/06, Amr M. [email protected] wrote:

postgres-pr gem (v 0.4.0)
postgres gem (had compile probs so un-installed it)

here is what I have already done:

== created a forum database in PostgreSQL
== create a user for it with password
== installed postgres and postgres-pr gems (got a few errors in the
postgres
install, but it claims the gem was “installed” but I de-activated it)

You must install gcc and the postgres dev packages to use the compiled
gem.

===>>>> tried rake db:migrate which craps out with the following error:

NOTE: I did fix the pg_hba.conf file for Postgres to accept cleartext or
MD5 hashes and it seems to work fine from the commandline (i can connect
with the db via psql) The above test was run with ‘password’ as the
method ie NO IDENT/SAMEUSER stuff in the conf file.

I’m at a loss, maybe someone can give a pointer?

What version of PostgreSQL is 7.x? There were major changes in that
series
and 7.4 or later is recommended. 7.2 and earlier are known not to work.

jeremy

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Thanks Jeremy! it was 7.1, I should have been more specific. I
installed PostgreSQL-8.1 from backports.org and a little bit of futzing
with the pg_hba.conf and I was able to run the rake db:migrate .

For installing the compiled gem, I think I have the gcc, but will try to
install the postgres-dev from backports…

Thanks again for your help!

-Amr