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recompiling database.yml file with gemfile? ruby on rails

I'm new to Ruby on Rails and postgreSQL and had a question. Does the database.yml file get compiled when you run bundle install on a Gemfile? Initially my gemfile had sqlite3, but I changed it to pg and tried to run bundle install again to recompile the database.yml file, but the file still says it's using SQLite. 

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

I want the adapter to be switched to postgresql and I believe some other fields should be switched when using pg, but I'm unsure. Can anyone clarify this for me, thank you.

Solution

  • No, database.yml is not recompiled automatically. When you change the gem in Gemfile, you need to also change the file:

    development:
  adapter: postgresql
  database: dbname
  username: user
  password: password
  encoding: unicode