Problem with migrations in Rails 2.1

Rails
1

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

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On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Ron [email protected] wrote:

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?

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

3

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

  • Derek
4

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

5

Hi sorry,

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

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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.