undefined method `database_authenticatable' for #<ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::TableDefinition:0x9dee690>

Question

I am using Active Admin gem for my small application based on Quiz. But when I execute rake db:migrate it gives me error. Following is the trace of the command :

$ rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production --trace
** Invoke db:migrate (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Invoke db:load_config (first_time)
** Invoke rails_env (first_time)
** Execute rails_env
** Execute db:load_config
** Execute db:migrate
==  DeviseCreateAdminUsers: migrating =========================================
-- create_table(:admin_users)
rake aborted!
An error has occurred, all later migrations canceled:

undefined method `database_authenticatable' for #<ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::TableDefinition:0x9dee690>
/home/users/Documents/Quiz/db/migrate/20120509055635_devise_create_admin_users.rb:4:in `block in change'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_statements.rb:160:in `create_table'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters  /abstract_mysql_adapter.rb:432:in `create_table'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:466:in `block in method_missing'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:438:in `block in say_with_time'
/home/users/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p318/lib/ruby/1.9.1/benchmark.rb:295:in `measure'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:438:in `say_with_time'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:458:in `method_missing'
/home/users/Documents/Quiz/db/migrate/20120509055635_devise_create_admin_users.rb:3:in `change'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:407:in `block (2 levels) in migrate'
/home/users/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p318/lib/ruby/1.9.1/benchmark.rb:295:in `measure'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:407:in `block in migrate'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:119:in `with_connection'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:389:in `migrate'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:528:in `migrate'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:720:in `block (2 levels) in migrate'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:777:in `call'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:777:in `ddl_transaction'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:719:in `block in migrate'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:700:in `each'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:700:in `migrate'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:570:in `up'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:551:in `migrate'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/activerecord-3.2.3/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:153:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:205:in `call'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:205:in `block in execute'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:200:in `each'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:200:in `execute'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:158:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
/home/users/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p318/lib/ruby/1.9.1/monitor.rb:201:in `mon_synchronize'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:151:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:144:in `invoke'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:116:in `invoke_task'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:94:in `block (2 levels) in top_level'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:94:in `each'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:94:in `block in top_level'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:133:in `standard_exception_handling'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:88:in `top_level'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:66:in `block in run'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:133:in `standard_exception_handling'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:63:in `run'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/bin/rake:33:in `<top (required)>'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/bin/rake:19:in `load'
/home/users/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/bin/rake:19:in `<main>'
Tasks: TOP => db:migrate

Follwoing is my GemFile :

source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'rails', '3.2.3'

# Bundle edge Rails instead:
# gem 'rails', :git => 'git://github.com/rails/rails.git'

gem 'mysql2'
gem 'devise'
gem 'activeadmin', :git => 'https://github.com/gregbell/active_admin.git'
gem 'therubyracer'
gem 'formtastic'
gem 'haml'
gem 'paperclip'

# Gems used only for assets and not required
# in production environments by default.
group :assets do
  gem 'sass-rails',   '~> 3.2.3'
  gem 'coffee-rails', '~> 3.2.1'

  # See https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs#readme for more supported runtimes
  # gem 'therubyracer', :platform => :ruby

  gem 'uglifier', '>= 1.0.3'
end

gem 'jquery-rails'

Content of 20120509055635_devise_create_admin_users.rb is

class DeviseCreateAdminUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table(:admin_users) do |t|
      t.database_authenticatable :null => false
      t.recoverable
      t.rememberable
      t.trackable

      # t.encryptable
      # t.confirmable
      # t.lockable :lock_strategy => :failed_attempts, :unlock_strategy => :both
      # t.token_authenticatable


      t.timestamps
    end

    # Create a default user
    AdminUser.create!(:email => '[email protected]', :password => 'password', :password_confirmation => 'password')

    add_index :admin_users, :email,                :unique => true
    add_index :admin_users, :reset_password_token, :unique => true
    # add_index :admin_users, :confirmation_token,   :unique => true
    # add_index :admin_users, :unlock_token,         :unique => true
    # add_index :admin_users, :authentication_token, :unique => true
  end

end

I searched for the above issue and got this , but this doesn't helped me out. Everywhere I found this solution only. Does any one came across this issue before, if yes what you did to tackle it? Any help on this will be appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

I also ran into this issue on my existing app as I tried to deploy to a new staging server.

Ended up being that the Devise gem had been updated to 2.1 and I hadn't fixed the migration to work correctly with the new version.

Be sure to read through their migration to 2.1 doc on their wiki -- https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/How-To:-Upgrade-to-Devise-2.1

Also, be sure to read through the doc for how to correctly adjust existing migrations -- https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/How-To:-Upgrade-to-Devise-2.0-migration-schema-style

Answer 2

I've run into this twice and there is a really easy solution - instead of db migrations, run this:

heroku run rake db:create 
# optionally with --app your_apps_name if you have multiple apps.

then:

rake db:schema:load

Answer 3

I just had what I think is the same issue, I updated my gem, and dropped my db, later I got a very similar message, then I created a new rails app just to compare and it turns out the migration file has been changed, now it includes the columns instead of calling methods.

I hope it helps.

Cheers!