Rails Server hangs, Rake db.migrate hangs, appears to be hanging on DB server connection, but I can connect to DB server without a problem?

You say the app hangs. When you kill it, it should show a backtrace of where it was just before. This should give you a clue where to look for the problem.

Problem magically went away and I can no longer replicate. Sorry. – Ethan Heilman Jun 6 at 21:41.

A further investigation of this issue determined that the database. Yml was incorrectly configured (the wrong ip address was being specified for local host).

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