Postgres on Rails FATAL: database "my_app_test" does not exist

I have a new rails environment I'm setting up and I'm having some issues with postgres connecting to the database when running RSPEC tests.

My environment is Ruby 2.2.4p230, Rails 3.2.22, Postgresql 9.4.5

My database.yml file looks like:

  test:
    adapter: postgresql
    encoding: unicode
    database: myapp_com_test
    min_messages: WARNING
    pool: 5
    username: 
    password: 

I can run rake db:migrate and not receive any errors.

I can also run rails c test and the console seems to launch and shows me:

Digest::Digest is deprecated; use Digest
Loading test environment (Rails 3.2.22)
[1] pry(main)>

But when I run something like rake db:test:prepare it looks like it runs fine in that terminal window, but I receive a FATAL: database "myapp_com_test" does not exist in the server window.

Along the same lines, when I run rake spec I receive the same FATAL: database "myapp_com_test" does not exist in the server window along with this error

Connecting to database specified by database.yml
   (0.3ms)  SELECT "schema_migrations"."version" FROM "schema_migrations" 
   (0.6ms)  SELECT version FROM schema_migrations ORDER BY version
   (126.3ms)  DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS "myapp_com_test"
   (236.5ms)  CREATE DATABASE "myapp_com_test" ENCODING = 'unicode'
/Users/ryanfitch/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.4/bin/ruby -S rspec ./spec/controllers/account_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/artists_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/contact_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/exclusivities_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/help_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/home_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/legal_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/line_items_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/mixtapes_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/newsletter_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/order_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/originals_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/registrations_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/stations_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/story_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/tracks_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/users_controller_spec.rb ./spec/decorators/exclusivities_decorator_spec.rb ./spec/decorators/station_decorator_spec.rb ./spec/features/user_creates_account_spec.rb ./spec/features/user_places_click_order_spec.rb ./spec/helpers/exclusivities_helper_spec.rb ./spec/helpers/stations_helper_spec.rb ./spec/models/address_spec.rb ./spec/models/artist_spec.rb ./spec/models/billing_information_spec.rb ./spec/models/exclusivity_spec.rb ./spec/models/license_spec.rb ./spec/models/line_item_spec.rb ./spec/models/mixtape_download_spec.rb ./spec/models/mixtape_spec.rb ./spec/models/order_spec.rb ./spec/models/outbox_spec.rb ./spec/models/promo_code_spec.rb ./spec/models/side_spec.rb ./spec/models/station_spec.rb ./spec/models/track_rank_spec.rb ./spec/models/track_spec.rb ./spec/models/user_spec.rb ./spec/models/vendor_spec.rb ./spec/routing/artists_routing_spec.rb ./spec/routing/contact_routing_spec.rb ./spec/routing/help_routing_spec.rb ./spec/routing/home_routing_spec.rb ./spec/routing/legal_routing_spec.rb ./spec/routing/mixtapes_routing_spec.rb ./spec/routing/originals_routing_spec.rb ./spec/routing/story_routing_spec.rb ./spec/routing/tracks_routing_spec.rb ./spec/views/stations/play.html.erb_spec.rb
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/Users/ryanfitch/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.4/bin/ruby -S rspec ./spec/controllers/account_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/artists_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/contact_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/exclusivities_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/help_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/home_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/legal_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/line_items_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/mixtapes_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/newsletter_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/order_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/originals_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/registrations_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/stations_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/story_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/tracks_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/users_controller_spec.rb ./spec/decorators/exclusivities_decorator_spec.rb ./spec/decorators/station_decorator_spec.rb ./spec/features/user_creates_account_spec.rb ./spec/features/user_places_click_order_spec.rb ./spec/helpers/exclusivities_helper_spec.rb ./spec/helpers/stations_helper_spec.rb ./spec/models/address_spec.rb ./spec/models/artist_spec.rb ./spec/models/billing_information_spec.rb ./spec/models/exclusivity_spec.rb ./spec/models/license_spec.rb ./spec/models/line_item_spec.rb ./spec/models/mixtape_download_spec.rb ./spec/models/mixtape_spec.rb ./spec/models/order_spec.rb ./spec/models/outbox_spec.rb ./spec/models/promo_code_spec.rb ./spec/models/side_spec.rb ./spec/models/station_spec.rb ./spec/models/track_rank_spec.rb ./spec/models/track_spec.rb ./spec/models/user_spec.rb ./spec/models/vendor_spec.rb ./spec/routing/artists_routing_spec.rb ./spec/routing/contact_routing_spec.rb ./spec/routing/help_routing_spec.rb ./spec/routing/home_routing_spec.rb ./spec/routing/legal_routing_spec.rb ./spec/routing/mixtapes_routing_spec.rb ./spec/routing/originals_routing_spec.rb ./spec/routing/story_routing_spec.rb ./spec/routing/tracks_routing_spec.rb ./spec/views/stations/play.html.erb_spec.rb failed

Any ideas what's going on here?

EDIT: I can run rails db test and it opens up the database console and shows me the schema so the test database and dev database are there and seem to be working - but Postgres still doesn't seem to find it when I run rake spec for some reason.