Uninitialized constant CreateDb when using rake db:migrate

Rails
1

Does anyone have any idea why I might be getting this error? I’m using
sqlite3 with Rails 1.2.3 and ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i486-linux]

rake db:migrate --trace
(in /home/robhu/incremental)
** Invoke db:migrate (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute db:migrate
rake aborted!

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:266:in
load_missing_constant' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:452:in const_missing’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:464:in
const_missing' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/inflector.rb:250:in constantize’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/inflections.rb:148:in
constantize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:366:in migration_class’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:346:in
migration_classes' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlite_adapter.rb:352:in inject’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:342:in
each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:342:in inject’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:342:in
migration_classes' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:330:in migrate’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:297:in
up' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:288:in migrate’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.3/lib/tasks/databases.rake:4
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:392:in call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:392:in execute’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:392:in each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:392:in execute’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:362:in invoke' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:in synchronize’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:355:in invoke' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1739:in top_level’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1739:in each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1739:in top_level’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1761:in
standard_exception_handling' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1733:in top_level’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1711:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1761:in standard_exception_handling’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1708:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/bin/rake:7 /usr/bin/rake:16:in load’
/usr/bin/rake:16

trueman% cat db/migrate/001_create_db.rb
class CreateTasks < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
create_table :tasks do |t|
t.column :name, :string
end
end

def self.down
drop_table :tasks
end
end

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2

Does anyone have any idea why I might be getting this error? I’m using
sqlite3 with Rails 1.2.3 and ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i486-linux]
Aha. The reason was something to do with creating
db/migrate/001_foo.rb myself. When I used the generator it worked
fine.

-Rob

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On 9/11/07, Robert H. [email protected] wrote:

Does anyone have any idea why I might be getting this error? I’m using
sqlite3 with Rails 1.2.3 and ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i486-linux]

trueman% cat db/migrate/001_create_db.rb
class CreateTasks < ActiveRecord::Migration

The migration code looks for a class based on the file name of the
migration. So since your migration file is named 001_create_db.rb, it
strips off the 001_ part and turns create_db into the class CreateDb
and tries to peform CreateDb.up, which can’t be found.

So you need to either name the migration file as 001_create_tasks.rb,
or rename the class to CreateDb.

You found out that the generator keeps things in order for you. If you
need a migration to add a table, I suggest you generate a model
instead of a migration. The model generator will create a migration
for you as it creates the model skeleton.