Associations not saved in migration

hi. i’ve got a couple migrations where i’ve added foreign keys and
tried to update them via the migration but my items don’t save. i’ve
used save! in the hopes that an exception gets raised but no luck. the
migrations run without errors but the data isn’t in the db. can anyone
point out what i might be doing wrong? thanks! code below.

class AddDeliIdToMenuItem < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
add_column :menu_items, :deli_id, :integer

# todo - the code below doesn't work, wtf?
deli = Deli.find(:first)
items = MenuItem.find(:all)
for item in items do
  item.deli = deli
  item.save!
end

end

def self.down
remove_column :menu_items, :deli_id
end
end

class CreateTestMenuItemTypes < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
type = MenuItemType.create :name => ‘Sandwiches’
items = MenuItem.find_all_by_item_type “Sandwhich”
for item in items do
puts “item: #{item.name}, type id: #{type.id}”
item.menu_item_type_id = type.id
puts “item: #{item.name}, type id: #{item.menu_item_type_id}”
item.save!
end
type = MenuItemType.create :name => ‘Salads’
items = MenuItem.find_all_by_item_type “Salad”
for item in items do
puts “item: #{item.name}, type id: #{type.id}”
item.menu_item_type_id = type.id
puts “item: #{item.name}, type id: #{item.menu_item_type_id}”
item.save!
end
type = MenuItemType.create :name => ‘Drinks’
type = MenuItemType.create :name => ‘Smoothies’
type = MenuItemType.create :name => ‘Deserts’
type = MenuItemType.create :name => ‘Wraps’
end

def self.down
end
end