Rake db:reset doesn't work, fails with unknown attribute: user_status

If I manually drop the database, and run create, then migrate it works
fine.

But doing a:

rake db:reset

it fails with:

unknown attribute: user_status

Does this mean my migrations are not dropping things correctly?

On 18 February 2012 16:42, S Ahmed [email protected] wrote:

Does this mean my migrations are not dropping things correctly?

I believe that rake db:reset re-creates the db and loads the schema
from schema.rb rather than running the migrations [1]. Is there
something odd in schema.rb, possibly related to user_status?

[1] Active Record Migrations — Ruby on Rails Guides

Colin

Colin L. wrote in post #1047551:

On 18 February 2012 16:42, S Ahmed [email protected] wrote:

Does this mean my migrations are not dropping things correctly?

I believe that rake db:reset re-creates the db and loads the schema
from schema.rb rather than running the migrations [1]. Is there
something odd in schema.rb, possibly related to user_status?

[1] Active Record Migrations — Ruby on Rails Guides

You might also try:

rake db:migrate:reset

As I understand it that will actually drop the database and recreate it
by running all your migration. This should then also recreate your
schema.rb file.

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:42 PM, S Ahmed [email protected] wrote:

Does this mean my migrations are not dropping things correctly?

First thing to do seems to check with --trace.

$ rake --trace db:reset

and study the order of execution of rake tasks in detail until the
point where it fails …

HTH,

Peter


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Why doesn’t rake -T show db:reset? Where can I find a list of these
hidden
rake commands?
On Feb 19, 2012 6:36 PM, “Peter V.” [email protected]

It would be nice if there was a way to mirror things to RAILS_ENV=test
also.
I hate having to do it for both.

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Dheeraj K.
[email protected]wrote:

Why doesn’t rake -T show db:reset?

Because the desc is not defined or is commented out.

Where can I find a list of these hidden rake commands?

Checking these files could help you. The migration tasks are
in the first one.

peterv@ASUS:~/b/github/rails/rails$ find . -name ‘*.rake’
./activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake
./actionpack/lib/sprockets/assets.rake
./railties/lib/rails/tasks/framework.rake
./railties/lib/rails/tasks/log.rake
./railties/lib/rails/tasks/tmp.rake
./railties/lib/rails/tasks/annotations.rake
./railties/lib/rails/tasks/routes.rake
./railties/lib/rails/tasks/middleware.rake
./railties/lib/rails/tasks/engine.rake
./railties/lib/rails/tasks/documentation.rake
./railties/lib/rails/tasks/misc.rake
./railties/lib/rails/tasks/statistics.rake
./railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/plugin_new/templates/lib/tasks/%name%_tasks.rake
./railties/lib/rails/test_unit/testing.rake

As you will see, some tasks have no desc above them,
or the desc is commented out (probably because it is
not intended as a public available command).

E.g. rake db:reset is defined as such:

db_namespace = namespace :db do

desc 'Drops and recreates the database from db/schema.rb for the

current env
ironment and loads the seeds.’
task :reset => :environment do
db_namespace[“drop”].invoke
db_namespace[“setup”].invoke
end

end

with the desc commented out.

and rake db:migrate:reset as such:

db_namespace = namespace :db do

namespace :migrate do

# desc ‘Resets your database using your migrations for the current
environment’
task :reset => [‘db:drop’, ‘db:create’, ‘db:migrate’]

end

end

HTH,

Peter


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