Rails Executing migration ArgumentError

Question

I'm having a strange problem executing rake db:migrate

== 20141127213559 CreateMovies: migrating =====================================
-- create_table(:movies)
   -> 0.0033s
== 20141127213559 CreateMovies: migrated (0.0034s) ============================

rake aborted!
StandardError: An error has occurred, this and all later migrations canceled:

wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)
ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)

Tasks: TOP => db:migrate
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

What I did was:

rails generate model Movie

And then edit the migration CreateMovies

class CreateMovies < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def up
    #drop_table :movies
    create_table :movies do |t|
      t.string :title
      t.string :rating
      t.text :description
      t.datetime :release_date
      # Add fields that let Rails automatically keep track
      # of when movies are added or modified:
      t.timestamps
    end
  end

  def down
    drop_table :movies
  end
end

This is the output of executing the command with --trace

[fran@arch rottenpotatoes]$ rake db:migrate --trace
** Invoke db:migrate (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Invoke db:load_config (first_time)
** Execute db:load_config
** Execute db:migrate
== 20141127213559 CreateMovies: migrating =====================================
-- create_table(:movies)
   -> 0.0039s
== 20141127213559 CreateMovies: migrated (0.0041s) ============================

rake aborted!
StandardError: An error has occurred, this and all later migrations canceled:

wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:271:in `initialize'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:271:in `new'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:271:in `substitute_at'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/relation.rb:97:in `block in substitute_values'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/relation.rb:96:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/relation.rb:96:in `each_with_index'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/relation.rb:96:in `substitute_values'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/relation.rb:56:in `insert'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/persistence.rb:521:in `_create_record'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/counter_cache.rb:139:in `_create_record'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/dirty.rb:122:in `_create_record'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:306:in `block in _create_record'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:88:in `call'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:88:in `_run_callbacks'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:734:in `_run_create_callbacks'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:306:in `_create_record'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/timestamp.rb:57:in `_create_record'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/persistence.rb:501:in `create_or_update'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:302:in `block in create_or_update'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:88:in `call'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:88:in `_run_callbacks'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:734:in `_run_save_callbacks'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:302:in `create_or_update'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/persistence.rb:142:in `save!'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/validations.rb:42:in `save!'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/dirty.rb:29:in `save!'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:289:in `block in save!'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:345:in `block in with_transaction_returning_status'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:211:in `transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:218:in `transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:342:in `with_transaction_returning_status'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:289:in `save!'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/persistence.rb:51:in `create!'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:1015:in `record_version_state_after_migrating'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:985:in `block in execute_migration_in_transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:1030:in `block in ddl_transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:213:in `block in transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/transaction.rb:188:in `within_new_transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:213:in `transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:218:in `transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:1030:in `ddl_transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:983:in `execute_migration_in_transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:945:in `block in migrate'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:941:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:941:in `migrate'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:813:in `up'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:791:in `migrate'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/tasks/database_tasks.rb:137:in `migrate'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:44:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `call'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `block in execute'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `execute'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/task.rb:179:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
/usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/task.rb:172:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/task.rb:165:in `invoke'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:156:in `invoke_task'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:112:in `block (2 levels) in top_level'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:112:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:112:in `block in top_level'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:121:in `run_with_threads'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:106:in `top_level'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:84:in `block in run'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:182:in `standard_exception_handling'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:79:in `run'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/bin/rake:33:in `<top (required)>'
/home/fran/.gem/ruby/2.1.0/bin/rake:23:in `load'
/home/fran/.gem/ruby/2.1.0/bin/rake:23:in `<main>'
ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:271:in `initialize'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:271:in `new'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:271:in `substitute_at'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/relation.rb:97:in `block in substitute_values'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/relation.rb:96:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/relation.rb:96:in `each_with_index'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/relation.rb:96:in `substitute_values'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/relation.rb:56:in `insert'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/persistence.rb:521:in `_create_record'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/counter_cache.rb:139:in `_create_record'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/dirty.rb:122:in `_create_record'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:306:in `block in _create_record'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:88:in `call'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:88:in `_run_callbacks'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:734:in `_run_create_callbacks'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:306:in `_create_record'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/timestamp.rb:57:in `_create_record'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/persistence.rb:501:in `create_or_update'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:302:in `block in create_or_update'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:88:in `call'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:88:in `_run_callbacks'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:734:in `_run_save_callbacks'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:302:in `create_or_update'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/persistence.rb:142:in `save!'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/validations.rb:42:in `save!'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/dirty.rb:29:in `save!'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:289:in `block in save!'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:345:in `block in with_transaction_returning_status'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:211:in `transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:218:in `transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:342:in `with_transaction_returning_status'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:289:in `save!'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/persistence.rb:51:in `create!'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:1015:in `record_version_state_after_migrating'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:985:in `block in execute_migration_in_transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:1030:in `block in ddl_transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:213:in `block in transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/transaction.rb:188:in `within_new_transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:213:in `transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:218:in `transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:1030:in `ddl_transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:983:in `execute_migration_in_transaction'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:945:in `block in migrate'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:941:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:941:in `migrate'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:813:in `up'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/migration.rb:791:in `migrate'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/tasks/database_tasks.rb:137:in `migrate'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.0.beta4/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:44:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `call'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/task.rb:240:in `block in execute'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/task.rb:235:in `execute'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/task.rb:179:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
/usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/task.rb:172:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/task.rb:165:in `invoke'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:156:in `invoke_task'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:112:in `block (2 levels) in top_level'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:112:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:112:in `block in top_level'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:121:in `run_with_threads'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:106:in `top_level'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:84:in `block in run'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:182:in `standard_exception_handling'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/lib/rake/application.rb:79:in `run'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rake-10.4.0/bin/rake:33:in `<top (required)>'
/home/fran/.gem/ruby/2.1.0/bin/rake:23:in `load'
/home/fran/.gem/ruby/2.1.0/bin/rake:23:in `<main>'
Tasks: TOP => db:migrate

Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Maybe you should execute this after create movies table:

generate migration AddFieldsToMovies newfield:type

This generates the correct migration, see this:

http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_migrations.html#changing-tables

Answer 2

If you are using Rails 4.2.0.beta4, ActiveRecord will require arel gem. Add the following to your gem file

gem 'arel', '6.0.0.beta2'

and run

bundle install

You may get below error message

You have requested:arel = 6.0.0.beta2

The bundle currently has arel locked at 6.0.0.
Try running `bundle update arel`

then

bundle update arel

Now you should able to run migration.

Here you may find similar and explanatory answer: Can't migrate database after scaffold. Section 2.2 Ruby on Rails Tutorial Michael Hartl