my model:

fields do
name :string, :null => false
email :string
about :text, :default => “No description available”
timestamps
end

the migration step:

What now: [g]enerate migrations, generate and [m]igrate now or [c]ancel? m
create db/migrate
create db/migrate/001createinitialtables.rb
(in /Users/home/Development/test)
== 1 CreateInitialTables: migrating ===========================================
– createtable(:foomodels)
rake aborted!
Mysql::Error: BLOB/TEXT column ‘about’ can’t have a default value: CREATE TABLE foomodels (id int(11) DEFAULT NULL auto_increment PRIMARY KEY, name varchar(255) NOT NULL, email varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL, about text DEFAULT ‘No description available’, created_at datetime DEFAULT NULL, updated_at datetime DEFAULT NULL) ENGINE=InnoDB

Taking out the default value (rming the db/migrate/001createinitial_tables.rb file) and retrying made it go through. Is there a reason why it died with a default value for :text ?

Thanks, Hobo rocks.

The other issue is that I think it’s really important to show the migration code before generating the files, so folk get a chance to check it’s what they intended.

script/generate hobomigrations mymigration -g (or -c, -m)

It’s an easy add, but I’m not yet feeling comfortable submitting a possible diff…