Getting to Run PostgreSQL and Rail on Mac

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I am using OSX 10.8 ( looks like some version on Postgres is installed by default ) but still I did these steps one by one and they all succeeded .

brew install postgresql
initdb `brew --prefix`/var/postgres -E utf8
touch Gemfile
bundle config build.pg --with-pg-config=`brew --prefix postgresql`/bin/pg_config

And this is a screen shot of the last success message I saw:

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Then I ran this one:

postgres -D `brew --prefix`/var/postgres

And that's the error I get:

postgres cannot access the server configuration file "/usr/local/var/postgre/postgresql.conf": No such file or directory

Chris Travers · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-22 07:23:45Z

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I think your whole problem is with a short typo. Compare your error message with what you are doing. Your error message is:

postgres cannot access the server configuration file "/usr/local/ var/postgre/ postgresql.conf": No such file or directory

Your command is

postgres -D brew --prefix/var/postgres

My guess is you are accidently running

postgres -D `brew --prefix`/var/postgre

answered Apr 22, 2013 at 7:23

Chris Travers

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