On Jun 9, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Brad Miller wrote: > Thanks Jonathan, > > I did not realize that migrate could be anything other than True or False! > > I did some experimenting on my development application as follows: > > I changed settings.migrate = 'devdb' > > then in the databases directory I renamed all the *.table files so that the > old hash value was replaced with devdb. So now I have devdb_auth_user.table > ... devdb_courses.table etc. > > Unfortunately when I restart my app and try to do anything I get the table > already defined error. > > Is that what you suggested I do? >
settings.migrate is only going to be effect when you run the admin wizard. Did you do that? Otherwise, you need to set migrate in your define_table calls as well as auth.define_tables.

