title: Error pushing to heroku - aborting my rake assets:precompile
body: <p><strong>Edit:</strong> I'm a new ruby on rails student.</p>
  
  <p>Following my Git Push Heroku Master, I am running into issues with Heroku. Here is the latest and greatest, aborting the rake assets:precompile.</p>
  
  <pre><code>-----&gt; Preparing app for Rails asset pipeline
     Running: rake assets:precompile
     rake aborted!
     could not connect to server: Connection refused
     Is the server running on host "127.0.0.1" and accepting
     TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
     Tasks: TOP =&gt; environment
     (See full trace by running task with --trace)
     Precompiling assets failed, enabling runtime asset compilation
     Injecting rails31_enable_runtime_asset_compilation
     Please see this article for troubleshooting help:
     http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails31_heroku_cedar#troubleshooting
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Included below are the contents of my Gemfile:</p>
  
  <pre><code>gem 'rails', '3.2.8'
  gem 'bootstrap-sass', '2.1'
  gem 'pg'
  
  group :development, :test do
    gem 'rspec-rails'
    gem 'guard-rspec'
    gem 'guard-spork'
    gem 'spork'
    gem 'annotate'
    gem 'database_cleaner'
  end
  
  # Gems used only for assets and not required
  # in production environments by default.
  group :assets do
    gem 'sass-rails',   '~&gt; 3.2.3'
  end
  
  platforms :jruby do
    gem 'trinidad'
    gem 'jruby-openssl'
  end
  
  gem 'jquery-rails'
  
  # Use unicorn as the web server
  # gem 'unicorn'
  
  # Deploy with Capistrano
  # gem 'capistrano'
  
  # To use debugger
  # gem 'ruby-debug'
  
  # Bundle the extra gems:
  gem 'RedCloth', '~&gt; 4.2.9', :require =&gt; 'redcloth'
  gem 'ruby-openid', :require =&gt; 'openid'
  gem 'rack-openid', :require =&gt; 'rack/openid'
  gem 'aaronh-chronic', :require =&gt; 'chronic' # Fixes for 1.9.2
  gem 'coderay'
  gem 'lesstile'
  gem 'formtastic'
  gem 'will_paginate', '~&gt; 3.0.2'
  gem 'exception_notification', '~&gt; 2.5.2'
  gem 'open_id_authentication'
  
  # Bundle gems for the local environment. Make sure to
  # put test-only gems in this group so their generators
  # and rake tasks are available in development mode:
  group :test do
    gem 'database_cleaner'
    gem 'cucumber-rails',    :require =&gt; false
    gem 'cucumber-websteps', :require =&gt; false
    gem 'factory_girl'
    gem 'rspec'
    gem 'nokogiri', '~&gt; 1.5.0'
    gem 'webrat'
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What might be the issue?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update:</strong> I ran the rake command with --trace, and it had alerted me with a failure because the production database did not exist. I created the database, and ran --trace again, and this is what I'm currently being thrown:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Command failed with status (1): [/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p286/bin/ruby...]
  </code></pre>