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

jayadass karuppannan
jayadass karuppannan
1,802 Points

Rake Aborted while migrating.

I am following the video of Build a Todo list application with rails 4 ' and all are done without any errors until i reached db migrate command.

After bin/rails generate scaffold title:string description:text , there was no errors , then in the prompt i type bin/rake db:migrate ,the following errors was occurred,

== CreateTodoLists: migrating ============================================== -- create_table(:todo_lists)
rake aborted!
StandardError: An error has occurred, this and all later migrations canceled:

What seems to be wrong . Please advise.

1 Answer

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

Did you try a second time? Were there any other errors? Also can you go to the folder db/migrate and copy the contents of the migration into your answer. There could be a type causing the failure.