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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Getting Started with Rails Generate a Rails Application

Posted by Owen Kupperman
Owen Kupperman
953 Points

rake db:migrate not working

When I get to the point where I have already created the scaffolding, I run rake db:migrate and after about a minute of nothing, it opens up a new command line. No error messages or anything. When I then try to run the server, it shows that I need to migrate. Please Help!

4 Answers

Tatiana Perry
Tatiana Perry
17,156 Points
Tatiana Perry
Tatiana Perry
17,156 Points

Hey Owen, Rails has a habit of not working with PC. Treehouse has a virtual box for Windows users and provides instructions because of the Windows issues like this.

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/installing-a-ruby-development-environment/installing-a-ruby-development-environment/treehouse-vm-overview

Owen Kupperman
Owen Kupperman
953 Points

thank you, I will try that

Tatiana Perry
Tatiana Perry
17,156 Points
Tatiana Perry
Tatiana Perry
17,156 Points

I use a Linux so the commands maybe a bit different navigate to your application folder

$ rails generate scaffold status name:string content:text

$ rake db:migrate

there is a colon between db and migrate

Also what system are you using. I could not get anything to work on a windows computer.

Owen Kupperman
Owen Kupperman
953 Points

Thanks for the help, but still nothing. the way I am formatting it is $ rake db:migrate

Owen Kupperman
Owen Kupperman
953 Points

PC

Robert Ho
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Robert Ho
Courses Plus Student 11,383 Points
Robert Ho
Robert Ho
Courses Plus Student 11,383 Points

Were you ever able to start the server before? What happens when you run rails generate scaffold? Was it for the scaffold generation for the status resource?

Owen Kupperman
Owen Kupperman
953 Points

The scaffold generates fine. What happens, is that when I run the server after running migrate, an error message shows up in the middle of the lronpt telling me to migrate. It also shows up on the server page