Thanks Fred, at least I'll stop bouncing my head against the wall trying to 
make my command work!
I'll stick with your solution or mine.

Il giorno 20/apr/2011, alle ore 09:39, Frederick Cheung 
<[email protected]> ha scritto:

> 
> 
> On 19 Apr 2011, at 22:13, Federico <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hello everybody,
>> I have a class like this:
>> 
>> class Foos < ActiveRecord::Migration
>> def self.up
>>   create_table :foos,:id => false, do |t|
>>     t.references :table1
>>     t.references :table2
>>     t.timestamps
>>   end
>> end
>> 
>> def self.down
>>   drop_table :foos
>> end
>> end
>> 
>> I would like to add a composite index on the 2 columns :table1
>> and :table2 but the command
>> rails generate migration add_index(:foos,
>> [:table1_id, :table2_id], :unique => true)
>> 
>> fails with the following output:
>>   Missing type for attribute '='.
>> Example: '=:string' where string is the type.
>> 
>> If I edit the up method of Foos like this:
>> 
>> def self.up
>>   create_table :foos,:id => false, do |t|
>>     t.references :table1
>>     t.references :table2
>>     t.timestamps
>>   end
>>   add_index(:foos, [:table1_id, :table2_id], :unique => true)
>> end
>> 
>> then the index is successfully created.
>> I can't understand why. I would like to create this composite index
>> with a migration from command line.
>> 
> 
> As far as I know there just isn't a command line shortcut for creating such a 
> migration - create a blank one with
> 
> rails g migration AddAnIndexToFoos
> 
> And add your call to add_index in there. 
> 
> Fred
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Federico
>> 
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