# Beginner seeking some guidance (OS X Leopard)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginner-seeking-some-guidance-os-x-leopard/125456>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 9, 2008, 8:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginner-seeking-some-guidance-os-x-leopard/125456 "2008-01-09T08:42:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![rpflorence](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@rpflorence](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rpflorence)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 8:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginner-seeking-some-guidance-os-x-leopard/125456/1 "2008-01-09T08:42:13Z")

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First, please tell me if I’m an idiot for even attempting to learn  
Ruby on Rails. I’m a graphic designer turned user interface designer  
with a geeky side who wishes he could program. I know 2 ounces of  
javascript (maybe less) but I’ve got my head around HTML and CSS  
pretty well (I know, I know–nothing special). So again, tell me to  
go back to the kiddie pool if I’m totally out of place here.

(I’m still proud that I even figured out how to get started! Never  
touched the terminal until today.)

Anyway, I’m trying to follow these instructions:

[http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html](http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html)

to just get /something/ created–something I made that I can  
manipulate and feel cool about, and then I’ll go nuts learning the  
language.

Thing is, that guide was written when RoR used MySQL as it’s default  
database but now it uses SQLite3 … so the instructions don’t work  
for a complete newby like myself.

I was able to get the accounts table created but when I get to the  
part where it tells me to do:

$ rake migrate

I get this:

rake aborted!  
Don’t know how to build task ‘migrate’

Which I believe means my database ain’t doing what she ought to.

Thanks for any help!

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**Author:** ![rpflorence](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@rpflorence](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rpflorence)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 8:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginner-seeking-some-guidance-os-x-leopard/125456/2 "2008-01-09T08:52:44Z")

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On Jan 8, 2008, at 11:41 PM, rpflorence wrote:

> First, please tell me if I’m an idiot for even attempting to learn  
> Ruby on Rails.

> $ rake migrate
> 
> I get this:
> 
> rake aborted!  
> Don’t know how to build task ‘migrate’

Hey, we all started somewhere.

rake db:migrate

The tutorial is obviously out of date.

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**Author:** ![rpflorence](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@rpflorence](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rpflorence)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 8:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginner-seeking-some-guidance-os-x-leopard/125456/3 "2008-01-11T08:25:20Z")

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Another quick tip. If you ever forget the exact rake task you’re  
looking for do this:

rake -T

This will list all the available tasks that rake knows about.

You can also filter that list with something like:

rake -T db

This will list all rake tasks in the db namespace.