associations not saved in migration

hi. i've got a couple migrations where i've added foreign keys and tried to update them via the migration but my items don't save. i've used save! in the hopes that an exception gets raised but no luck. the migrations run without errors but the data isn't in the db. can anyone point out what i might be doing wrong? thanks! code below.

class AddDeliIdToMenuItem < ActiveRecord::Migration   def self.up     add_column :menu_items, :deli_id, :integer

    # todo - the code below doesn't work, wtf?     deli = Deli.find(:first)     items = MenuItem.find(:all)     for item in items do       item.deli = deli       item.save!     end   end

  def self.down     remove_column :menu_items, :deli_id   end end

class CreateTestMenuItemTypes < ActiveRecord::Migration   def self.up     type = MenuItemType.create :name => 'Sandwiches'     items = MenuItem.find_all_by_item_type "Sandwhich"     for item in items do       puts "item: #{item.name}, type id: #{type.id}"       item.menu_item_type_id = type.id       puts "item: #{item.name}, type id: #{item.menu_item_type_id}"       item.save!     end     type = MenuItemType.create :name => 'Salads'     items = MenuItem.find_all_by_item_type "Salad"     for item in items do       puts "item: #{item.name}, type id: #{type.id}"       item.menu_item_type_id = type.id       puts "item: #{item.name}, type id: #{item.menu_item_type_id}"       item.save!     end     type = MenuItemType.create :name => 'Drinks'     type = MenuItemType.create :name => 'Smoothies'     type = MenuItemType.create :name => 'Deserts'     type = MenuItemType.create :name => 'Wraps'   end

  def self.down   end end