Question

I’ve manually created a database in MySQL:

mysql> create database sample_app_development;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)

Ran this to test:

rake db:create
sample_app_development already exists

Got error when I when I ran rake thinking_sphinx:index

rake aborted!
Table 'sample_app_development.users' doesn't exist

How does the table not exist when it says that I have just created one and that it does exist?

Answer 1

As pointed out in Jergason’s answer – you’ve only created the database, not all the tables. If this is an app you’re loading for the first time, then you’ll probably want to run the following command to load the full schema:

rake db:schema:load

Otherwise, to update to the latest schema via migrations:

rake db:migrate