Install rails with WSL and postgresql - windows

Question

I'm trying to setup a rails environment development on a Windows 10.
I follow the tutorial of 'go_rails' (https://gorails.com/setup/windows/10)
Most of the installation seems to worked fine (when i type rby -v or rails -v in the bash it's return the expected result).
My issue is with postresql which is used for the project i work on it.
Following the instructions of the tutorial i install Postgresql (10) directly on Windows. It's seems to work since in can login using the pgadmin on windows or by typing 'psql -p 5432 -h localhost -U postgres' in the bash.
So it's look like postgresql is working, but when i do a rake db:create in bash, i got an error : could not connect to the server: No such file or directory. Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket '/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432'
In the postgresql.conf (C:/Programms/.../Data/postgresql.conf) the listen_addresses is set to '*'.
A bit after there is a line named '#unix_socket_directoris = ''', do you thing i should set something in there?
I really need to get that project work.
Thanks for your help

Answer 1

The problem is likely that you've installed the Windows binary for PostgreSQL, but you're trying to connect to it from Windows Subsystem for Linux using a Unix socket, which doesn't exist.
You need to use TCP/IP to connect rather than a Unix socket. When typing psql on the command line, add the option --host=127.0.0.1 to connect via TCP/IP.

Answer 2

I just went through the entire Go Rails tutorial and I also had trouble at the rake db:create step. All you need to do is add host: 127.0.0.1 to your database.yml as shown below. Make sure to Start PostgreSQL before you run rake db:create.
default: &default
host: 127.0.0.1
adapter: postgresql
encoding: unicode
username: postgres
password: ENV['POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD']
pool: <%= ENV.fetch("RAILS_MAX_THREADS") { 5 } %>
development:
<<: *default
database: app_development
test:
<<: *default
database: app_test
production:
<<: *default
database: app_production
username: app_username
password: <%= ENV['APP_DATABASE_PASSWORD'] %>

Answer 3

Add host: localhost to your default: in database.yml. Without something telling rails where to look for the host, it looks for the process in linux, which, of course, won't work, since windows processes are not exposed to the wsl layer.