"No relations found" in psql after rails db:migrate succeeds - postgresql

Question

As a Rails novice, I'm following instructions in railscast #342 to set up a postgres database connection on my Mac.
I created a new rails project with
$ rails new blog -d postgresql
I edited the database yaml file to set the username and password.
I used psql to add the new user and password, and gave it permission to create tables: alter user blog create db
I created the db via
rake db:create:all
It succeeded and inside psql, doing \l to list schemas, I see all three schemas blog_test, blog_development and blog_production
I then do
$ rails g scaffold article name content:text
all looks good
I then do
$ rake db:migrate
I get messages showing success:
$ rake db:migrate
== 20150701220010 CreateArticles: migrating ===================================
-- create_table(:articles)
-> 0.0128s
== 20150701220010 CreateArticles: migrated (0.0129s) ==========================
I set my search path to look at the schema:
set search_path to lcuff,public,blog_development;
show search_path:
search_path
---------------------------------
lcuff, public, blog_development
But trying to find the table,
# \d
No relations found.
I've done the db:migrate VERSION=0 and it successfully reports that it drops the table, and then I create it again with db:migrate and it reports success.
If the first part hadn't worked, where it actually created the schema, I'd think I'm pointed to the wrong database somehow.
Ideas?

Answer 1

You should first connect to the database before fetching the tables.
\connect blog_development
And then try giving \d to list all tables.
You can also try with \dt.
Example(Tested in my Project):
\connect my_db
You are now connected to database "my_db" as user "postgres".
my_db=# \d
List of relations
Schema | Name | Type | Owner
--------+-------------------------------+-------+----------
public | access_managements | table | postgres
public | amenities | table | postgres
public | city_coordinates | table | postgres
public | coapplicants | table | postgres
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