From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-08-01T11:50:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Railless ActiveRecord

On 7/31/07, Ari Brown <ari@aribrown.com> wrote:
> Hey all. More ActiveRecord trouble.
>
> So I have my ActiveRecord connection. All is good. I am connecting to
> an SQLite3 database, which is working out pretty well for me. I think.
>
> So my story is this: When I tried to use the table "characters",
> abstracted from class Character, I get an error:
> `table_structure': ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid
> (ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid)
>
> I did some poking around and actually read the error message, and I'm
> getting this error because there is no table characters (right??)
> So how do I create these tables in ActiveRecord?

I show how to do this on page 2 of my "How to build simple console
apps with Ruby and ActiveRecord" article

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/06/21/how-to-build-simple-console-apps-with-ruby-and-activerecord.html?page=2

See the ActiveRecord::Schema documentation for more help.