From: vfoley@... (Vincent Foley)
Date: 2004-11-01T21:58:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem getting tiny RAILS demo working

Is config/database.yml properly configured?  An authorization error
seems related to username and password.  Check out
http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/TutorialStepTwo to make sure your
PostgreSQL configuration is okay.

craig duncan <duncan@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message news:<41854418.6060704@nycap.rr.com>...
> I've been following the instructions provided in 
> "http://darkhost.mine.nu:8080/~vince/rails/tutorial.html" to see if i 
> could get the basic database (Postgres)/webserver (WEBrick)/Rails 
> functionality working.  Everything seems ok until i get to the part 
> where i stick "scaffold :album" into the AlbumController class.
> 
> I've got two problems.  1a) postgres ident authorization won't work for 
> me for a non-postgres user (nothing to do with anything but postgres) so 
> i just made the first line in pg_hba.conf "local all all trust" and then 
> (re postgres all by itself) access seems to work ok... except when i go 
> to "http://localhost:3000/album" i see (1b):
> 
> PGError in Album#index
> FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user "postgres"
> [followed by a stack trace]
> 
> (this is with "local all all trust" as the first line in pg_hba.conf)
> I'm running WEBrick as a non-postgres, non-root user.
> 
> Problem 2:  I run WEBrick with -r debug and i get an exception raised in 
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpservlet/filehandler.rb#235:
> 
> 235: st = (File::stat(res.filename) rescue nil)
> 
> (rdb:2) p res.filename
> "/home/craig/Album/public/album"
> (rdb:2)
> 
> Which is causing the following output (even when not running the debugger):
> 
> #<WEBrick::HTTPStatus::NotFound: `/album' not found.>
> 127.0.0.1 - - [31/Oct/2004:14:37:01 EST] "GET /album HTTP/1.1" 500 3657
> - -> /album
> 
> There *is* no public/album directory, though.  Is something wrong here? 
>   There were no instructions to make this directory, it didn't get made 
> by either the new_model or new_controller scripts and (crucially) the 
> example cited above shows things working at this point (displaying 
> "Listing todos" in the tutorial).
> 
> Could my Album object be insufficiently "business"-like?