rake db:migrate fails to run on first deploy

[nathanvda]

Hi, I am trying to do my first deploy with mina, and it fails to run the migrations.

This is normal: my migrations do not run from the start, because somewhere during development I added the schema_plus gem, which makes my migrations more stringent.

Normally this is not a problem: I would just do rake db:setup and I would be fine and dandy. However: after a failed install, everything is deleted, so I cannot do a manual rake db:setup.

Does anybody have some tips how to get out of this?

So, either

• a way to run rake db:setup on first deploy
• or a way that the files are not deleted after a failed install, so I can still manually run rake db:setup

[mbajur]

I had a similar issue some time ago (where i wanted to run a rake task but
installation was failing so i wasn't able to). I have manually cloned my
repo on a server, configured my db, fired rake db:setup and removed
cloned repo. Then, i have made a regular deploy with mina on previously
used database.

Kind of ugly but it works :)

[nathanvda]

Ok. Thanks for the tip. I did something alike. I added

    to :clean do
      queue %[echo "do my personal cleaning"]
      queue %[cp -R "$build_path" "#{deploy_to}/keep_failed"]
    end

so right before cleaning, it would copy the build folder to the keep_failed folder, and then I could use that to run rake db:setup. Still dirty, but a little less work 💤 😄