Ruby - ActiveRecord::ConnectionNotEstablished

Question

I am rather new to Ruby and have been following along with the book "Ruby On Rails 3 Tutorial - Learn Ruby by Example - by Michael Hartl". I am currently in Chapter 3 which discusses static pages.

In this chapter, I entered the following command into the prompt: rails generate controller Pages home contact and everything worked fine.

Then the book directs me to http://localhost:3000/pages/home. When I point my browser there, I receive the following error.

ActiveRecord::ConnectionNotEstablished

ActiveRecord::ConnectionNotEstablished
Rails.root: /home/ralph/railsprojects/sample_app

Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace

The routes and controller erb don't appear to have any errors. Is this a database related error? Any ideas?

Thanks, DMAT

Update:

This is the code in my database.yml file.

# SQLite version 3.x
#   gem install sqlite3
#
#   Ensure the SQLite 3 gem is defined in your Gemfile
#   gem 'sqlite3'
development:
  adapter: sqlite3
  database: db/development.sqlite3
  pool: 5
  timeout: 5000

# Warning: The database defined as "test" will be erased and
# re-generated from your development database when you run "rake".
# Do not set this db to the same as development or production.
test:
  adapter: sqlite3
  database: db/test.sqlite3
  pool: 5
  timeout: 5000

production:
  adapter: sqlite3
  database: db/production.sqlite3
  pool: 5
  timeout: 5000

Here is the information from the Framework Trace:

  activerecord (3.1.1) lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:409:in `retrieve_connection'
  activerecord (3.1.1) lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:107:in `retrieve_connection'
  activerecord (3.1.1)lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:89:in `connection'
  activerecord (3.1.1) lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:65:in `call'
  activerecord (3.1.1) lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:477:in `call'
  actionpack (3.1.1) lib/action_dispatch/middleware/callbacks.rb:29:in `call'
  activesupport (3.1.1) lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:392:in `_run_call_callbacks'
  activesupport (3.1.1) lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:81:in `send'
  activesupport (3.1.1) lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:81:in `run_callbacks'
  actionpack (3.1.1) lib/action_dispatch/middleware/callbacks.rb:28:in `call'
  actionpack (3.1.1) lib/action_dispatch/middleware/reloader.rb:68:in `call'
  rack (1.3.5) lib/rack/sendfile.rb:101:in `call'
  actionpack (3.1.1) lib/action_dispatch/middleware/remote_ip.rb:48:in `call'
  actionpack (3.1.1) lib/action_dispatch/middleware/show_exceptions.rb:47:in `call'
  railties (3.1.1) lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:13:in `call'
  rack (1.3.5) lib/rack/methodoverride.rb:24:in `call'
  rack (1.3.5) lib/rack/runtime.rb:17:in `call'
  activesupport (3.1.1) lib/active_support/cache/strategy/local_cache.rb:72:in `call'
  rack (1.3.5) lib/rack/lock.rb:15:in `call'
  actionpack (3.1.1) lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb:53:in `call'
  railties (3.1.1) lib/rails/engine.rb:456:in `call'
  railties (3.1.1) lib/rails/rack/content_length.rb:16:in `call'
  railties (3.1.1) lib/rails/rack/log_tailer.rb:14:in `call'
  rack (1.3.5) lib/rack/handler/webrick.rb:59:in `service'
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:104:in `service'
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:65:in `run'
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:173:in `start_thread'
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in `start'
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in `start_thread'
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:95:in `start'
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in `each'
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in `start'
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:23:in `start'
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:82:in `start'
  rack (1.3.5) lib/rack/handler/webrick.rb:13:in `run'
  rack (1.3.5) lib/rack/server.rb:265:in `start'
  railties (3.1.1) lib/rails/commands/server.rb:70:in `start'
  railties (3.1.1) lib/rails/commands.rb:54
  railties (3.1.1) lib/rails/commands.rb:49:in `tap'
  railties (3.1.1) lib/rails/commands.rb:49
  script/rails:6:in `require'
  script/rails:6

Answer 1

I had the same problem, I started the sample-app from scratch and used this gemfile:

source 'http://rubygems.org'

gem 'rails', '3.1.1'

gem 'sqlite3'

group :development do
  gem 'rspec-rails', '2.6.1'
end


group :test do
  gem 'rspec-rails', '2.6.1'
  gem 'webrat', '0.7.1'
end

group :assets do
  gem 'sass-rails',   '~> 3.1.4'
  gem 'coffee-rails', '~> 3.1.1'
  gem 'uglifier', '>= 1.0.3'
end

gem 'jquery-rails'

This solved the problem for me :)

Answer 2

Make sure that you have installed sqlite3 gem.

If so did you run the following commands,

rake db:create # to create database
rake db:migrate # to create tables based on your migration

If the above two works fine, your application should be able to connect to the database. Else please copy the trace application trace over here, that may help us to help you better.

Answer 3

Try updating the sqlite3 gem. bundle update sqlite3

Answer 4

bundle install
bundle update
rake db:setup
rake db:migrate
rake db:seed
# remember to restart the server
rails server