Migration with data

Rails
1

Hi
I am using postgres and have two migration files like
001_create_categories.rb as
class CreateCategories < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
create_table :categories do |t|
t.column :name, :string, :limit=>80
end
end

def self.down
drop_table :categories
end
end
and 002_populate_categories.rb

class PopulateCategories < ActiveRecord::Migration
execute ‘ALTER SEQUENCE categories_id_seq RESTART WITH 100;’
NAMES = [“Category 1”, “Category 2”, “Category 3”]
def self.up
NAMES.each{|name| Category.create(:name => name)}
end

def self.down
NAMES.each{|name| Category.find_by_name(name).destroy}
end
end

 My problem is if I seperately done these migrations ie one by one

everything is ok .I get sequence starts with 100 and the values like
100 Category1
101 Category2
102 Category3
But if I just migrate two migrations at once I get error

– execute(“ALTER SEQUENCE categories_id_seq RESTART WITH 100;”)
rake aborted!
RuntimeError: ERROR C42P01 Mrelation “categories_id_seq” does not
exist Fnamespace.c L273 RRangeVarGetRelid: ALTER SEQUENCE
categories_id_seq RESTART WITH 100;

   Could you please tell why this happens?

Thanks in advance
Sijo

2

Hi
Still I could not solve this problem
Sijo

3

On 14 Nov 2008, at 04:17, Sijo Kg wrote:

   NAMES.each{|name| Category.create(:name => name)}

end

def self.down
NAMES.each{|name| Category.find_by_name(name).destroy}
end

Move that execute into the self.up method: where it currently is, it
is executed when the file is loaded. Since ActiveRecord loads all the
migrations to run up front it will run that execute before migration
1 as run.

Fred

4

Hi
Thanks for your reply
Sijo