Ruby on Rails : Error trying to generate a model : Name already in use

Question

I am new to Ruby on Rails. I am trying to generate a model using the command

rails generate model Movie title:text year:integer rating:integer description:text

But I get the error :

 invoke  active_record The name 'Movie' is either already used in your application or reserved by Ruby on Rails. Please choose an alternative and run this generator again.

I really want to keep the name Movie. I have also tried the below to delete the table - but the table does not exists in the database

sqlite> drop table Movie;
Error: no such table: Movie

I am not sure how to fix this error or what is causing it. Any help with this would be great. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can revert by running rails destroy model Movie. This will remove model, migration, tests, and fixtures that have been previously generated.