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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Creating an Authentication System Generating the User Model

Posted by Joseph Grossheim
Joseph Grossheim
4,924 Points

Problem Generating User Model

I accidentally deleted the migration file that creates the 'user' tables from treebook/db/migrations. I tried to regenerate it and for some reason it is not being created. Any thoughts on what is going on and how to fix it? Thanks in advance.

3 Answers

Björn Steneram
Björn Steneram
5,523 Points
Björn Steneram
Björn Steneram
5,523 Points

Are you using Devise? Isnt it the Devise generator that generates the migration file for Devise?

Joseph Grossheim
Joseph Grossheim
4,924 Points
Joseph Grossheim
Joseph Grossheim
4,924 Points

that's correct, it did create the migration file, but I deleted it by accident. When I tried to recreate it, it is not creating the new migration file. I assume that the table is still in the database, which is what is causing the problem (though i'm only guessing).

Björn Steneram
Björn Steneram
5,523 Points
Björn Steneram
Björn Steneram
5,523 Points

Yes the table is still there, and if you create a new migration and run it you will end up with a error saying that the table already exists.