Rake db: create fails

huuan · April 22, 2008, 8:09am

OK I googled about this but didn’t find an answer.

I’m trying to get started with the most basic of basic apps ‘hello
world’
I start from the public directory
/var/www/localhost/htdocs/rails_app/public/
by doing

rails -d mysql MyProject

and it creates lot of files/folders then I change to the new project

cd MyProject

then I do

rake db:create

(in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/rails_app/public/MyProject)
rake aborted!
Don’t know how to build task ‘db:create’

(See full trace by running task with --trace)
So I do

rake db:create --trace

(in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/rails_app/public/MyProject)
rake aborted!
Don’t know how to build task ‘db:create’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1634:in []' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1930:ininvoke_task’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1909:in top_level' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1909:ineach’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1909:in top_level' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1948:instandard_exception_handling’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1903:in top_level' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1881:inrun’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1948:in
standard_exception_handling' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1878:inrun’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/bin/rake:31
/usr/bin/rake:16:in `load’
/usr/bin/rake:16

My OS is gentoo linux hardened with grsec:
Linux version 2.6.23-hardened-r7

rails versions is:
[I–] [ ] dev-ruby/rails-1.2.6 (1.2)

ruby :
[I–] [ ] dev-lang/ruby-1.8.6_p114 (1.8)
[I–] [ ] dev-ruby/rubygems-0.9.4-r2 (0)

when I run from the app root:

ruby script/console

it brings up the console:
Loading development environment.

How should I proceed to get this simple app running.

Thanks.

huuan · April 22, 2008, 12:45pm

not 100% sure, but i think the db:create came with the edge version of
Rails, so your version 1.2.6 may not include it yet

huuan · April 22, 2008, 2:59pm

Jonny H. wrote:

Don’t know how to build task ‘db:create’

rake --tasks

shows you if the db:create task is present at all. If it is, make sure
the settings in config/database.yml are configured correctly for your
MySQL installation (although admittedly “Don’t know how to build task
‘db:create’” doesn’t really point in that direction).

huuan · April 22, 2008, 4:45pm

On Apr 22, 2008, at 12:09 AM, Jonny H. wrote:

OK I googled about this but didn’t find an answer.

then I do

rake db:create

(in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/rails_app/public/MyProject)
rake aborted!
Don’t know how to build task ‘db:create’

db:create is new. For 1.26, just create your database some other way.
Once it exists then db:migrate can create the tables.

huuan · April 22, 2008, 7:16pm

George B. wrote:

On Apr 22, 2008, at 12:09 AM, Jonny H. wrote:

db:create is new. For 1.26, just create your database some other way.
Once it exists then db:migrate can create the tables.

Silly me, I followed the wiki…
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Tutorial

I guess that was a trap for newbie’s. I’d update the wiki but as a
newbie I’d misinform so I’ll leave that until I know enough to be even
more dangerous.

Oh well. Thanks everyone for your help.

huuan · April 22, 2008, 7:32pm

That should work for a new version of rails. Perhaps the Wiki Tutorial
should specify which version of rails it is, and have an alternate
page for the older method.

On Apr 22, 11:16 am, Jonny H. [email protected]

huuan · April 23, 2008, 3:45am

Robert Ferney wrote:

That should work for a new version of rails. Perhaps the Wiki Tutorial
should specify which version of rails it is, and have an alternate
page for the older method.

OK I was at a different location than when I originally posted. Now I’m
back I see that it wasn’t that wiki page that set me in the wrong
direction it was:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/TutorialStepOne

where there’s not even mention of new versions.

I’m on gentoo and they are a little behind in unmasking 2.02

huuan · April 23, 2008, 6:15am

On Apr 22, 2008, at 7:45 PM, Jonny H. wrote:

I’m on gentoo and they are a little behind in unmasking 2.02

I’m on 1.2.6 and will stay that way for at least six months longer.
I’ve got a large internal app that works, and so have little reason to
make any sudden moves.
I’m definitely a tortoise when it comes to this type of thing. I’ll
let all the wise hares figure out 2, and then when it’s all blindingly
obvious I’ll come plodding along.

huuan · April 23, 2008, 7:37am

George B. wrote:

On Apr 22, 2008, at 7:45 PM, Jonny H. wrote:

I’m on gentoo and they are a little behind in unmasking 2.02

I’m on 1.2.6 and will stay that way for at least six months longer.
I’ve got a large internal app that works, and so have little reason to
make any sudden moves.
I’m definitely a tortoise when it comes to this type of thing. I’ll
let all the wise hares figure out 2, and then when it’s all blindingly
obvious I’ll come plodding along.

One of the main reasons I installed RoR was to use Typo as a blog as
every other blog on gentoo seems to be < version 1, for systems with X,
or have security issues (for instance wordpress is hard-masked). Then
after downlaod there is the install instructions stating needs >2.0

OTOH I notice that one of the first presentations here

is writing a blog in 15 minutes, so that may be my next task, write my
own while waiting for gentoo to catch up and be able to use typo later
maybe.