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Article:		Cookin' with Ruby on Rails - May
Subject:		Migration Error on Linux
Date:		2007-07-22 10:23:19
From:		DaveMatuszek
Response to: Migration Error on Linux
I had the same problem using InstantRails 1.7 with Ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 1.2.3. Capitalization of "Recipes" doesn't seem to be important, but "string" must be :string. The error (evaluating nil.[]) occurs in .../schema_statements.rb:272:in 'type_to_sql' the line reads: limit ||= native[:limit] I also found native = native_database_types[type] and def native_database_types {} end and no additions to this hash. My Ruby isn't yet good enough to figure out why this can ever work....

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• Migration Error
  2007-08-14 11:25:56  ezosoro [View]
  
  
  It took looking at the screen shot of the command prompt window before I got this to work correctly, as it shows something totally different then the screen shot of the "002_add_contributor_name" file.
  
  If you use this for the "add_column" line it should work correctly...
  
  add_column("Recipes", "contributor_name", :string, {:default => "Unknown"})
  
  It was missing the brackets around the default value and string needs a colon and no quotations afterwards. Hope it helps everyone out ;).