On Aug 9, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Jordon Bedwell <envyge...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Tamara Temple <tamouse.li...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> At this stage of the game, it's hard to hear "yer doin it rong" but 
>> something did go wrong. You should not have received that message if you 
>> were following the getting started tutorial from the beginning. If you were 
>> doing other things, you may have created a migration which the system is 
>> complaining about. My suggestion at this point is to start the Getting 
>> Started tutorial from scratch with a brand new rails app in a brand new 
>> directory.
> 
> WAT? Why would you start over when you could just rake db:migrate?
> It's quite easy to miss that when it tells you to run it, and missing
> it is a far better in how to correctly build migrations than being
> told to do it, because now you've learned the hard way to always
> migrate.  I find it ignorant that anybody would tell somebody to start
> over again rather than tell them how they broke it and to fix it and
> the simple solution is: "You forgot to run a migration like they told
> you to, lesson: run `rake db:migrate` after every migration.

Up to that point in the tutorial, there should not have been any migrations 
created.

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