# Rails Migration Hangs

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-migration-hangs/166805>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [April 29, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-migration-hangs/166805 "2009-04-29T18:50:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![jakattack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b2d939/32.png) [@jakattack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jakattack)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-migration-hangs/166805/1 "2009-04-29T18:50:12Z")

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I’m running a migration on my production system. I’m trying to add two  
columns to the picture table. When I run the migration I see this output

# == 35 Version111: migrating

– dei\_add\_column(:pictures, :created\_by, :integer, {:default=\>1,  
:limit=\>10})

and then nothing more, it just hangs there forever?!?

Any ideas on how to debug this, has anyone encountered this problem  
before?

-J