A bug with script/generate plugin_migrations?

#1

I tried searching the mailing list for an answer with no luck. I’m
hoping this is just user error:

I recently upgraded my rails app to Rails 1.2.3 (from Rails 1.1.6) and
upgraded to engines 1.2 at the same time. I ran script/generate
plugin_migrations for the first time and it created an application
migration would run my plugin migration from 0-45 (as expected).

I added a new migration to my plugin, ran the script/generate
plugin_migration again and it added a second application migration, but
in the down method it migrates to version 0 instead of version 45 as I
would have expected. Any ideas on what I could be doing wrong? I
checked the db and the plugins_schema_info table has my plugin currently
at version 45 and my application at 1. Any suggestions would be
helpful.

Trevor Rowe

#2

Hi Trevor,The most common reason for this would be that you
plugin_schema_info version for the plugin was still 0 when you ran
script/generate plugin_migration for the second time. Can you confirm
that you did run rake db:migrate between generating the first plugin
migration and the second?

#3

I did some more digging. I had run the migration already for my local
development environment, but curiously enough I went to test this again
today and here is what I noticed:

I built a new plugin migration and tried to run script/generate
plugin_migration and I got an error that said I couldn’t connect to the
db. My development db is on localhost, and I realized then it was
connecting to the production db to get information on what migration it
should run.

Is there a way to set the environment?

I tried adding the environment as -e, --environment, RAILS_ENV=, just
adding the environment name, etc, no luck. This would explain my
previous problem, the migration had been run, just not against my
production environment yet.

Any suggestions?

Trevor