I keep running into the same issue whenever I try to set up a Rails project that I downloaded from a Git repository. After I clone the repo and attempt to run the database migration command, it throws an error about a missing YAML configuration file.
The error message says it can’t find a config file in my home directory. This happens consistently with different projects I’ve tried to set up locally.
$ git clone https://github.com/user/social_app_example.git
$ cd social_app_example
$ bundle install
$ rake db:migrate
rake aborted!
No such file or directory - /Users/username/.social-app-config.yml
I’m not sure why it’s looking for this config file or how to fix this problem. Has anyone else encountered this type of error when setting up cloned Rails projects?
totally! you gotta create that config file manually; check if there’s a ‘.social-app-config.yml.example’ in the project. just copy that over to your home dir and fill it out. then it should work. good luck!
This error means the app’s trying to load a YAML file from your home directory with environment settings. The path’s hardcoded somewhere in the code - I’ve hit this a bunch of times with Rails apps that have weird deployment configs. Start by grepping the codebase for that filename. Check config/initializers and config/application.rb first - that’s usually where it’s defined. The original devs probably didn’t want to commit sensitive data to version control. Once you find where it’s loading the config, you can either create the missing file with the right values or switch to Rails credentials or environment variables instead.