problem with blog demo app

rubyonrails-talk
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http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started_with_rails.html

The command "rake db.create" shown in section "6.1. Running a migration" is failing as follows:

bash-3.2$ pwd /Users/jander/work/blog bash-3.2$ rake db.create --trace (in /Users/jander/work/blog) rake aborted! Don't know how to build task 'db.create' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1706:in `' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2018:in `invoke_task' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `top_level' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `each' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `top_level' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2036:in `standard_exception_handling' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1991:in `top_level' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1970:in `run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2036:in `standard_exception_handling' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1967:in `run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/bin/rake:31 /usr/local/bin/rake:19:in `load' /usr/local/bin/rake:19

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try running rake db:migrate

I think the problem is you are using a period instead of a colon

Jason

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Thanks, you’re absolutely right! One of the problems of having a very high resolution screen…:slight_smile: