Connection error at the db creation

Question

I have a rails project, that works with postgresql and pg. I installed postgres in my computer, but when I try to create/migrate the db of the aplication, I get the following error:

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

I created already the user for the application. I didn't have the postgresql folder at least, I had to create it. What could be the problem?

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04

Answer 1

By default the socket connection file is located in the /tmp folder, you can find it in /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432. To change the location check ~/.parts/var/postgresql/postgresql.conf file, but /var/run directory is not writable now, you can't select /var/run as the socket file location.