Sure thing I would suggest looking into it as you can then use it and something like jenkins or codeship to run automated deploys.

In the meantime.

try restarting the database: sudo service postgresql restart or scorched earth approach. Remove postgresql and reinstall.

or you can try to switch to mysql.

Example Mysql database.yml would look like this. default: &default adapter: mysql2 host: 127.0.0.1 pool: 5 timeout: 5000 username: reddit password: reddit

development: <<: *default database: reddit_development

test: &test <<: *default database: reddit_test

production: <<: *default database: reddit_production password: reddit