From: Greg Pederson <greg.pederson@...>
Date: 2007-01-14T03:15:17+09:00
Subject: Rake aborted problem

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Hi all,
I know this is something probably really simple, but since I'm a noob I'm
stuck and can't figure it out.  I'm doing the depot project/tutorial in the
Agile Web Development with Rails.  Here's what happens, while trying to add
the second migration, adding a missing column, I generate the migration,
002_add_price.rb, then make the changes as outlined in the book:

class AddPrice < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
      add_column :products, :price, :decimal, :precision=>8, :scale=>2,
:default=>0
  end

  def self.down
      remove_column :products, :price
  end
end

and then run rake db:migrate...which fails.
Here is the --trace

C:\instantrails\work\depot>rake db:migrate --trace
(in C:/instantrails/work/depot)
** Invoke db:migrate (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute db:migrate
== AddPrice: migrating
========================================================
-- add_column(:products, :price, :decimal, {:precision=>8, :scale=>2,
:default=>
0})
rake aborted!
You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occured while evaluating nil.[]
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4
/lib
/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_statements.rb:259:in
`type_to
_sql'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4
/lib
/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_statements.rb:122:in
`add_col
umn'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4
/lib
/active_record/migration.rb:273:in `send'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4
/lib
/active_record/migration.rb:273:in `method_missing'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4
/lib
/active_record/migration.rb:257:in `say_with_time'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in `measure'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4
/lib
/active_record/migration.rb:257:in `say_with_time'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4
/lib
/active_record/migration.rb:271:in `method_missing'
./db/migrate//002_add_price.rb:3:in `real_up'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4
/lib
/active_record/migration.rb:210:in `send'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4
/lib
/active_record/migration.rb:210:in `migrate'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in `measure'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4
/lib
/active_record/migration.rb:210:in `migrate'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4
/lib
/active_record/migration.rb:333:in `migrate'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4
/lib
/active_record/migration.rb:328:in `each'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4
/lib
/active_record/migration.rb:328:in `migrate'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4
/lib
/active_record/migration.rb:295:in `up'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4
/lib
/active_record/migration.rb:286:in `migrate'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6
/lib/tasks/d
atabases.rake:4
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1
/lib/rake.rb:
387:in `call'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1
/lib/rake.rb:
387:in `execute'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1
/lib/rake.rb:
387:in `each'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1
/lib/rake.rb:
387:in `execute'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1
/lib/rake.rb:
357:in `invoke'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:in
`synchronize'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1
/lib/rake.rb:
350:in `invoke'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1
/lib/rake.rb:
1906:in `run'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1
/lib/rake.rb:
1906:in `each'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1
/lib/rake.rb:
1906:in `run'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1
/bin/rake:7
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/bin/rake.bat:25:in `load'
C:/instantrails/InstantRails/ruby/bin/rake.bat:25

Can anyone tell me what's happening and how you can decipher that info from
above...so I can learn to troubleshoot on my own.

Another thing to add is that this did work, and I deleted the project and
was trying to run through it again.

Thank you in advance for your help,
Greg

-- 
"Politicians are like diapers, both need to be changed frequently and for
the same reasons."

Greg Pederson
Greg.Pederson@gmail.com

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