I'd be very grateful for some help. I am a newbie working through Agile Web Development with Rails 2nd edition.
As far as I know I have all the compatible versions of things installed including RadRails 0.7.2. I have got up to page 81 and everything works correctly.
I am now trying migrate/003_add_test_data.rb and have copied the code from the website. When I do the migrate it appears to complete OK, but when I inspect the DB, the table is empty. This is very worrying. 1. Shouldn't the migrate give an error message if it failed? 2. Why is it not working?
Here is the code:
class AddTestData < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up Product.delete_all
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def self.down Product.delete_all end end
