Uninitialized constant RenameIssuedCodes error

I have a series of migrations which I have used over the last 4 months
without any problems. I have followed the pattern of deleting and
recreating the tables, doing the migrations and then loading fixtures.
This has all worked successfully until yesterday, when I started to get
an “uninitialized constat” error.

Here’s the error and the stack trace:

c:\mick>rake db:migrate --trace
(in c:/mick)
** Invoke db:migrate (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute db:migrate
rake aborted!
uninitialized constant RenameIssuedCodes
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependenci
es.rb:278:in load_missing_constant' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependenci es.rb:467:inconst_missing’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependenci
es.rb:479:in const_missing' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/inflector. rb:283:inconstantize’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/core_ext/s
tring/inflections.rb:143:in constantize' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/migration.rb :456:inmigrations’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/connection_a
dapters/mysql_adapter.rb:15:in inject' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/migration.rb :440:ineach’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/migration.rb
:440:in inject' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/migration.rb :440:inmigrations’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/migration.rb
:406:in migrate' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/migration.rb :357:inup’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/migration.rb
:340:in migrate' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.0/lib/tasks/databases.rake:99 c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:617:incall’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:617:in execute' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:612:ineach’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:612:in execute' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:578:ininvoke_with_call_c
hain’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in synchronize' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:571:ininvoke_with_call_c
hain’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:564:in invoke' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2019:ininvoke_task’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in
top_level' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:ineach’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in
top_level' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2036:instandard_exceptio
n_handling’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1991:in
top_level' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1970:inrun’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2036:in
standard_exceptio n_handling' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1967:inrun’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/bin/rake:31
c:/ruby/bin/rake:16:in `load’
c:/ruby/bin/rake:16

I have a model called issued_code.rb which looks like this:

class IssuedCode < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :CodeRequest
end

The migration 002_create_issued_codes.rb:

class CreateIssuedCodes < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
create_table :issued_codes do |t|
t.integer :code_request_id
t.text :file_text
t.datetime :date_issued

  t.timestamps
end

end

def self.down
drop_table :issued_codes
end
end

I’m baffled - any ideas on how to fix this?

TIA
LG Rains

Never mind, I found the problem. I had an empty migration called
xxx_rename_issued_codes.rb. Don’t know where it came from, but when I
deleted it, the migrations worked just fine.

LG