Having trouble running a rake command

[choward93]

Hi everyone,

I am on page 126 of Patrick Lenz's book. I got to the command where you rake the file to create tables in the database:

$ rake db:migrate

but i am getting back instead of what should come out:

(in /Users/choward/Shovell)
ruby: No such file or directory -- ./bin/rake (LoadError)
rake aborted!
Don't know how to build task 'db:migrate'

I have looked at all the rake files, and I am not sure why its telling me this. Does the missing file/directory have to be relative to the Rakefile? I have a file named "rake" thats in the /bin folder.

Any help is much appreciated.

[ReggieB]

First thing to check is that you are running the command in the right place - you need to be in the root of the application you are trying to migrate. If you can do an ls (or dir on Windows) and get a listing of your application's folders (app, components, config, db, doc, lib, log, public, script, test, tmp, and vendor) then you are in the right place and rake db:migrate should work.

[choward93]

Yeah i am im the right folder, "shovell" when i am running the rake command, but i am getting the same response. This is a bit over my head

[samsm]

Show us what you get when you use the "ls" or "dir" command in that directory.

[choward93]

Here you go:

macintosh-9:~/shovell choward$ ls
README          components      doc             public          testdata
Rakefile        config          lib             script          tmp
app             db              log             test            vendor

[ReggieB]

Then it looks like you are in the right place. The fact that you have a Rails structure there suggests that Ruby and Rails are installed and at least talking to each other.

I'd suggest this is a permissions issue, but I have no experience with modern Mac OSs so I'm afraid I'll have to bail out at this point. Sorry I can't be of any more assistance.