Problem with migrations in Rails 2.1

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Hi,

I'm trying to migrate to sqlite3 and I get this error:

syntax error, unexpected '\n', expecting tCOLON2 or '[' or '.'

I'm running OS X 10.5 on an Intel mac. I've installed the sqlite gem. I'm not sure what's going on here. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ron

2

Can you post the code that is throwing the problem? Hard to diagnose this without it :slight_smile:

- Derek

3

Is there more context? Like a file and line number where that happens?

4

Hi sorry,

The code causing the problem is the auto generated migration from the generate scaffold command in Rails 2.1.0.

5

I had the same problem. It was a problem with scaffold-

The scaffold was creating in the migration file statements of the form:

t.string, :title

which should be

t.string :title

The developers have probably fixed it by now. This is just fyi for other people encountering this problem.

Cheers

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Gladwright wrote in post #709136:

I had the same problem. It was a problem with scaffold-

The scaffold was creating in the migration file statements of the form:

t.string, :title

which should be

t.string :title

The developers have probably fixed it by now. This is just fyi for other people encountering this problem.

Cheers

This isn't a bug--it's an operator error. If you are thinking Ruby instead of shell, you might end up doing this at the command line: rails generate scaffold User name:string, email:string instead of this: rails generate scaffold User name:string email:string

The comma gets incorporated into the migration, and the migration bombs because of it.