Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 12:02:05AM +0200, Stephan Wehner wrote:
>> Josef Wolf wrote:
> Thanks for your help, Stephan!
>
>> > So I am looking for a possibility to specify the directory relatively.
>> > host: `pwd`/db/pgdata
>> > or
>> > host: #{RAILS_DIR}/db/pgdata
>> > or something.
>>
>> Since config/database.yml is read through ERB, you can do stuff like
>>
>> host: <%= RAILS_DIR %>/db/pgdata
>
> Yeah, this works fine when I use RAILS_ROOT instead of RAILS_DIR.
>
>> host: <%= `hostname` %>
Try
>> host: <%= `hostname`.chomp %>
>
> Backticks don't seem to work here. I get a syntax error when I try it:
>
> ** Invoke db:create (first_time)
> ** Invoke environment (first_time)
> ** Execute environment
> rake aborted!
> syntax error on line 22, col 9: ` # port: 5432'
> /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'
> /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'
> /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.1/lib/initializer.rb:716:in
> ** `database_configuration'
I couldn't reproduce this, but chomp should help
Stephan
>
> Where line 22 is the first line after the backtick that does _not_ start
> with a comment.
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