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Why is the add_column outside of the up method?
This means that it will be executed at the time the
AddCounterCacheToStores class is created, which I think will happen
whatever the current schema version is, at least that would explain
what you are seeing.
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On Nov 10, 2007 12:30 PM, darius <noone@here.invalid> wrote:
hello
I'm getting a rake db:migrate error which I can't understand (newbie).
-- add_column(:stories, :votes_count, :integer, {:default=>0})
rake aborted!
Mysql::Error: #42S21Duplicate column name 'votes_count': ALTER TABLE
stories ADD
`votes_count` int(11) DEFAULT 0(See full trace by running task with --trace)
the error is in
005_add_counter_cache_to_stories.rb
class AddCounterCacheToStories < ActiveRecord::Migration
add_column :stories, :votes_count, :integer, :default => 0
def self.up
Story.find(:all).each do |s|
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