Ruby on Rails Friday, August 9, 2013

On Aug 9, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Jordon Bedwell <envygeeks@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Tamara Temple <tamouse.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>> At this stage of the game, it's hard to hear "yer doin it rong" but something did go wrong. You should not have received that message if you were following the getting started tutorial from the beginning. If you were doing other things, you may have created a migration which the system is complaining about. My suggestion at this point is to start the Getting Started tutorial from scratch with a brand new rails app in a brand new directory.
>
> WAT? Why would you start over when you could just rake db:migrate?
> It's quite easy to miss that when it tells you to run it, and missing
> it is a far better in how to correctly build migrations than being
> told to do it, because now you've learned the hard way to always
> migrate. I find it ignorant that anybody would tell somebody to start
> over again rather than tell them how they broke it and to fix it and
> the simple solution is: "You forgot to run a migration like they told
> you to, lesson: run `rake db:migrate` after every migration.

Up to that point in the tutorial, there should not have been any migrations created.

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