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Ruby

Posted by Tommy Deeter
Tommy Deeter
2,660 Points

Migrating Database Issues

Hi everyone! I recently started the "Build a simple Ruby on Rails Application" deep dive, and I've run into some problems. When Jason tells us to run the command "rake db:migrate" this is displayed..

Jim-Deeters-MacBook:treebook tommydeeter25$ rake db:migrate

Jim-Deeters-MacBook:treebook tommydeeter25$ rake db:migrate

rake aborted!

/Users/tommydeeter25/treebook/db/migrate/20130729205955_create_statuses.rb:5: syntax error, unexpected ':'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activesupport-3.2.12/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `require'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activesupport-3.2.12/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `block in require'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activesupport-3.2.12/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:236:in `load_dependency'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activesupport-3.2.12/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `require'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activerecord-3.2.12/lib/active_record/migration.rb:537:in `load_migration'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activerecord-3.2.12/lib/active_record/migration.rb:533:in `migration'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activerecord-3.2.12/lib/active_record/migration.rb:528:in `migrate'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activerecord-3.2.12/lib/active_record/migration.rb:720:in `block (2 levels) in migrate'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activerecord-3.2.12/lib/active_record/migration.rb:775:in `call'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activerecord-3.2.12/lib/active_record/migration.rb:775:in `block in ddl_transaction'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activerecord-3.2.12/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:192:in `transaction'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activerecord-3.2.12/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:208:in `transaction'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activerecord-3.2.12/lib/active_record/migration.rb:775:in `ddl_transaction'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activerecord-3.2.12/lib/active_record/migration.rb:719:in `block in migrate'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activerecord-3.2.12/lib/active_record/migration.rb:700:in `each'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activerecord-3.2.12/lib/active_record/migration.rb:700:in `migrate'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activerecord-3.2.12/lib/active_record/migration.rb:570:in `up'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activerecord-3.2.12/lib/active_record/migration.rb:551:in `migrate'

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activerecord-3.2.12/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:179:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Tasks: TOP => db:migrate

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

Thanks in advance! I appreciate the help, as I am just starting Ruby on Rails.

Tommy

1 Answer

missgeekbunny
missgeekbunny
37,033 Points
missgeekbunny
missgeekbunny
37,033 Points

On line 5 of your create status migrate file you have a colon it doesn't like. That's what the first part of the error said. So it's just some type of syntax error and so you just need to see where the colon it doesn't like is.

Tommy Deeter
Tommy Deeter
2,660 Points

Thank you very much! I went back into the file and I found the error. There was an extra colon in there. I appreciate your help!