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So i am starting a new project, and have done this meany times now. However this is the first time i have hit this issue!
I created the app as normal rails new myapp -d postgresql
I've created the DB using rails db:create and ran the site rails s. Awesome!! It all works, and i see the Rails welcome/holding page.
Now i start to create my models, rails g model user for example. And i get this!
Expected string default value for '--jbuilder'; got true (boolean)
invoke active_record
The name 'User' is either already used in your application or reserved by Ruby on Rails. Please choose an alternative and run this generator again.
ok fair enough, i get the error message. So i thought i would test out another model. So i run rails g model testing, and i get...
Running via Spring preloader in process 31815
Expected string default value for '--jbuilder'; got true (boolean)
invoke active_record
create db/migrate/20161217171019_create_testings.rb
create app/models/testing.rb
invoke test_unit
create test/models/testing_test.rb
create test/fixtures/testings.yml
Has anyone else had this issue and if so any ideas why? I have tried running bundle install and bundle update with no luck.
The only change to my system that i can think of is that i updated to macOS 10.12.2 the other day, and I had not created any project after that until now. Previously they always worked fine.
$ rails -v
Rails 5.0.0.1
$ ruby -v
ruby 2.3.1p112 (2016-04-26 revision 54768) [x86_64-darwin16]
I thought i would try running $ rails g --help and i am getting the error there too.
Running via Spring preloader in process 32228
Expected string default value for '--jbuilder'; got true (boolean)
Usage: rails generate GENERATOR [args] [options]
General options:
-h, [--help] # Print generator's options and usage
-p, [--pretend] # Run but do not make any changes
-f, [--force] # Overwrite files that already exist
-s, [--skip] # Skip files that already exist
-q, [--quiet] # Suppress status output
Please choose a generator below.
Expected boolean default value for '--markerb'; got :erb (string)
Expected string default value for '--helper'; got false (boolean)
Expected string default value for '--assets'; got true (boolean)
Rails:
assets
channel
controller
generator
helper
integration_test
jbuilder
job
mailer
migration
model
resource
responders_controller
scaffold
scaffold_controller
task
ActiveRecord:
active_record:devise
Coffee:
coffee:assets
Devise:
devise
devise:controllers
devise:install
devise:views
Js:
js:assets
Mongoid:
mongoid:devise
Responders:
responders:install
Sidekiq:
sidekiq:worker
TestUnit:
test_unit:generator
test_unit:plugin
I found these 2 issues on the rails repo which discuss this issue.
I just came across this in thor recently. I didn't have the same errors you have, but it is that latest thor release. It actually originally broke all new rails apps for a couple hours, then they released a patch, but still has issues it looks like.
https://github.com/erikhuda/thor/issues/533
These things you're seeing is probably something similar.
You could probably try setting thor in your Gemfile to "0.19.11" which was the version that wasn't causing any trouble previously.
gem "thor", "= 0.19.11"
Cool thanks Chris, that didnt work though. I am really not too sure why this is now suddenly happening.
So I started to test this out. And I created a couple of different projects rails new testapppg and rails new testapp-pg.
On both of apps I changed the thor gem gem 'thor', '0.19.1'. I then went on to run bundle update, and create the DB. Now both of these projects created the test models when running rails g model sample
Cool! So that is the fix. So I went back and recreated my pxl-insight app, updated the thor gem, created the DB. Now when I went to create the model I get the errors again!?
So my next question is does Rails cache project names? which is why the new projects worked fine, but the one with the previously used name causes the error?
I sure hope they get these issues with thor sorted out soon
Rails shouldn't cache project names or anything. Spring might, there have been a few times recently where I noticed I had to run spring stop to fix a couple odd bugs that seemed like things were cached when they shouldn't be.