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Posted by ivanzdane
ivanzdane
6,541 Points

rake db:migrate error

I'm on the Video generating a rails application in the treebook series, and I get this every time I try to do rake db:migrate

``rake aborted! /Users/Ivan/Projects/treebook/db/migrate/20140306002412_create_statuses.rb:4: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting tSTRING_CONTENT or tSTRING_DBEG or tSTRING_DVAR or tSTRING_END t.string :=names ^ /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/activesupport-3.2.12/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:inrequire' /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:inload_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:inload_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:inmigrate' /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:incall' /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:intransaction' /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:inddl_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:ineach' /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 /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:inblock (2 levels) in <top (required)>' Tasks: TOP => db:migrate (See full trace by running task with --trace)

Any help would be appreciated

2 Answers

Andrew Cottage
Andrew Cottage
20,718 Points

Remove the = before names.

ivanzdane
ivanzdane
6,541 Points

Thanks

ivanzdane
ivanzdane
6,541 Points

Thanks

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

Look in your migration file

20140306002412_create_statuses.rb

The error is in line 4.

Paste that code here if you want others to help diagnose.

ivanzdane
ivanzdane
6,541 Points

Here is my migration file

class CreateStatuses < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table :statuses do |t|
      t.string :=names
      t.text :content

      t.timestamps
    end
  end
end