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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Generate a Scaffold

Jinwoo Park
Jinwoo Park
12,010 Points
Posted by Jinwoo Park
Jinwoo Park
12,010 Points

rake aborted!

railsapi:~/projects/odot (master *+) $ rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=development == CreateTodoLists: migrating ================================================ -- create_table(:todo_lists) rake aborted! StandardError: An error has occurred, this and all later migrations canceled:

SQLite3::SQLException: table "todo_lists" already exists: CREATE TABLE "todo_lists" ("id" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL, "title" varchar(255), "description" text, "created_at" datetime, "updated_at" datetime) /home/treehouse/projects/odot/db/migrate/20150307233729_create_todo_lists.rb:3:in change' ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: SQLite3::SQLException: table "todo_lists" already exists: CREATE TABLE "todo_lists" ("id" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL, "title" varchar(255), "description" text, "created_at" datetime, "updated_at" datetime) /home/treehouse/projects/odot/db/migrate/20150307233729_create_todo_lists.rb:3:inchange' SQLite3::SQLException: table "todo_lists" already exists /home/treehouse/projects/odot/db/migrate/20150307233729_create_todo_lists.rb:3:in `change' Tasks: TOP => db:migrate (See full trace by running task with --trace)

I'm not sure at all how to go about this. Anyone?

1 Answer

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points
Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

Try just 

rake db:migrate

What do you get?

Jinwoo Park
Jinwoo Park
12,010 Points
Jinwoo Park
Jinwoo Park
12,010 Points

I get the same message