Question

I am following Lynda ruby on rails tutorial. I have already ran the code “rake db:migrate” after several unsuccessful attempts. I was then told to run “rake db:migrate VERSION=0”. This gives me errors once again, this time I can’t fix it. I have tried last night and this morning to no avail.

Remember when answering I am new to coding, so please explain in a way a newbie could understand.

lexi87$ rake db:migrate VERSION=0
==  AlterUsers: reverting =====================================================
-- remove_index("admin_users", "username")
rake aborted!
An error has occurred, all later migrations canceled:

Index name 'index_admin_users_on_username' on table 'admin_users' does not exist
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_statements.rb:587:in `index_name_for_remove'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_statements.rb:366:in `remove_index'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:466:in `block in method_missing'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:438:in `block in say_with_time'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:438:in `say_with_time'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:458:in `method_missing'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:334:in `method_missing'
/Users/lexi87/Sites/simple_cms/db/migrate/20130108015542_alter_users.rb:14:in `down'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:376:in `down'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:410:in `block (2 levels) in migrate'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:410:in `block in migrate'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:129:in `with_connection'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:389:in `migrate'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:528:in `migrate'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:720:in `block (2 levels) in migrate'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:777:in `call'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:777:in `ddl_transaction'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:719:in `block in migrate'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:700:in `each'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:700:in `migrate'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:574:in `down'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:555:in `migrate'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:179:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in `eval'
/Users/lexi87/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p320/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in `<main>'
Tasks: TOP => db:migrate
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

And here is the rb file.

class AlterUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration

  def self.up
    rename_table("users", "admin_users")
    add_column("admin_users", "username", :string, :limit => 25)
    change_column("admin_users", "email", :string, :limit => 100)
    rename_column("admin_users", "password", "hashed_password")
    add_column("admin_users", "salt", :string, :limit => 40)
    puts "*** About to add an index ***"
    add_index("admin_users", "username")
  end

  def self.down
       remove_index("admin_users", "username")
       remove_column("admin_users", "salt")
       remove_column("admin_users", "hashed_password", "password")
       remove_column("admin_users", "email", :string, :default => "", :null => false)
       remove_column("admin_users", "username")
       rename_table("admin_users", "users")
  end

end

Answer 1

You are removing the index which doesn’t exist. Always use the following order:

1) rake db:create

2) rake db:migrate

Also in context of the error you are getting, remember rake db:migrate VERSION=0 will remove all migrations, if that’s what you’re trying to do and since the indexing wasn’t there before so it will through an error..

I also suspect that your database.yml file that contains setting for the mysql is having wrong credentials, especially the setting for username and password. Check and correct it and then do migrations.