Setting DATABASE_HOST generates connection errors

[tribou]

Issue - Bug

• OS: OSX
• Node version: v4.4.4
• NPM version: 3.9.0
• RethinkDB version: 2.3.2

I'm trying to get meatier to connect to a local Docker container of rethinkdb. I set the DATABASE_HOST in the .env file, but I'm still getting this error when I run npm run quickstart (as it's still trying to connect to 127.0.0.1):

Fail to create a new connection for the connection pool. Error:{"message":"Failed to connect to localhost:28015\nFull error:\n{\"code\":\"ECONNREFUSED\",\"errno\":\"ECONNREFUSED\",\"syscall\":\"connect\",\"address\":\"127.0.0.1\",\"port\":28015}.","isOperational":true}

Also, I'm able to connect to the RethinkDB administration URL on the container just fine...

[mattkrick]

can you verify that rethinkdb is currently running on 28015? Also try to debug getRethinkConfig and see if it's picking up your process variables, since it'll default to localhost

[tribou]

Thanks, I'll try debugging the getRethinkConfig... DATABASE_HOST is set to 192.168.99.100, so since the error is still specifying localhost, it's gotta be missing the dotenv config somewhere.

[harscoet]

Actually there is no call to getDotenv function to expand process.ENV variables in setupDB script Quick fix, add to the beginning of file src/server/database/getRethinkConfig.js

import {getDotenv} from '../../universal/utils/dotenv';
getDotenv();

[devqin]

fixed by set DATABASE_HOST=127.0.0.1 in the file .env