I am trying to run ruby on rails code that I got from github and I ended up installing mysql using homebrew and then also ended up installing it directly from http://dev.mysql.com/. It was only then that when I used rake in the application file that the tests began to run. However, now I keep getting this Mysql2::Error: Duplicate entry and I don’t understand why. Could it be the fact that I have two mysqls located two different places on my computer? I am not really sure what is causing this problem because all the tables are empty. How can I fix this problem? Thank you for helping. I am new to Ruby on Rails and Mysql.
The stack looks like the following:
HomeControllerTest
test_should_get_index ERROR
Mysql2::Error: Duplicate entry '' for key 'index_admin_users_on_email': INSERT INTO `admin_users` (`created_at`, `updated_at`, `id`) VALUES ('2011-12-09 09:33:30', '2011-12-09 09:33:30', 298486374)
STDERR:
Exception `ActiveRecord::RecordNotUnique' at /Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql2_adapter.rb:283:in `query'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql2_adapter.rb:283:in `block in execute'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:244:in `block in log'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activesupport-3.1.3/lib/active_support/notifications/instrumenter.rb:21:in `instrument'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:239:in `log'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql2_adapter.rb:283:in `execute'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:302:in `insert_fixture'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:486:in `block (5 levels) in create_fixtures'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:485:in `each'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:485:in `block (4 levels) in create_fixtures'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:484:in `each'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:484:in `block (3 levels) in create_fixtures'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:476:in `each'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:476:in `block (2 levels) in create_fixtures'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:192:in `transaction'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:475:in `block in create_fixtures'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql2_adapter.rb:202:in `disable_referential_integrity'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:460:in `create_fixtures'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:924:in `load_fixtures'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:890:in `setup_fixtures'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activesupport-3.1.3/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:413:in `_run_setup_callbacks'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activesupport-3.1.3/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:81:in `run_callbacks'
/Users/nick01s/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/activesupport-3.1.3/lib/active_support/testing/setup_and_teardown.rb:34:in `run'
It’s unlikely that the two installations of mysql are causing this problem. Rails should only connect to one database. You may not know which one it is connecting to, but it takes extra work to get it to connect to more than one db.
I’ve seen that duplicate key error before when the fixtures in tests were bad.
In your stack trace, it looks to me like something (fixtures or factories) is trying to create an admin_user without a required field. Twice.
The second time it’s throwing an exception because the index is set to unique.