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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Creating an Authentication System Migrating Statuses

Posted by Lachlan Dawson
Lachlan Dawson
10,007 Points

Getting an error called ActiveRecord::PendingMigrationError

After adding this 

    add_colomn :statuses, :user_id, :integer
    add_index :statuses, :user_id
    remove_colomn :statuses, :name

to my new add_user_id_to_statuses.rb and preforming a rake db:migrate i get this message when i start up my local server again

ActiveRecord::PendingMigrationError

2 Answers

Lachlan Dawson
Lachlan Dawson
10,007 Points

Accidentally misspelled column

Brent Sullivan
Brent Sullivan
9,877 Points
Brent Sullivan
Brent Sullivan
9,877 Points

I open up my terminal, descend to my 'treebook' directory and then enter 'rails server' into the console. I then copy the link (http://0.0.0.0:3000) to see if I am Riding Ruby on Rails and I get an error message in my browser:

ActiveRecord::PendingMigrationError

Migrations are pending; run 'bin/rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=development' to resolve this issue.

Rails.root: /Users/BrentSullivan/treebook

Any idea how to fix? Thanks!