Could not find table 'users' - ruby-on-rails-3

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UPDATE 4
See solution below!
**Update 3 **
If anyone is actually still reading this (I appreciate it!) I've been struggling around my code today (yes still a noob and in chapter 11 of the ruby on rails tutorial).
I've supposedly reset back to my last commit:
$ cd rails_screencast/sample_app/
$ git reset --hard 2396c0d288d132ffc43c82d5cbbc736a5258eed2
HEAD is now at 2396c0d Micropost Validations
When I check the site on local host it actually shows a list of users and not an ERROR page but when I run the test suite (autotest with spork - I've reset those a few times too to be sure) I still get all errors such as these shown below. I'm very curious about the "Could not find table 'users'" as it is in EVERY error #
108) Users signin success should sign a user in and out
Failure/Error: user = Factory(:user)
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
Could not find table 'users'
# ./spec/requests/users_spec.rb:56:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'
Finished in 0.9872 seconds
108 examples, 108 failures
Time to keep on plugging and looking at all these errors, if anyone can offer any insight or hints or ideas what to check I would appreciate it! Or if you need additional information I can post that too (just be very specific to which files to see as I'm not totally fluent in the lingo as many are already)
Update 2:
It seems that my reset messed something up with the factory settings as sometimes all my errors are pointing to line 5 of my micropost_spec.rb file specifically # the #user = Factory(:user) line... almost like my factories file isn't linked to anything any more. I am wondering if a rake db:migrate would solve any of my problems... or just create new problems... I only have sample data filling in with faker
Any ideas?
Is it possible to revert my file system back to a previous commit and start over? ... when I was green
Failures:
1) Micropost should create a new instance with valid attributes
Failure/Error: #user = Factory(:user)
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
Could not find table 'users'
# ./spec/models/micropost_spec.rb:5:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
2) Micropost user associations should have a user attribute
Failure/Error: #user = Factory(:user)
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
Could not find table 'users'
# ./spec/models/micropost_spec.rb:5:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
3) Micropost user associations should have the right associated user
Failure/Error: #user = Factory(:user)
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
Could not find table 'users'
# ./spec/models/micropost_spec.rb:5:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
4) Micropost validations should have a user id
Failure/Error: #user = Factory(:user)
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
Could not find table 'users'
# ./spec/models/micropost_spec.rb:5:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
5) Micropost validations should require nonblank content
Failure/Error: #user = Factory(:user)
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
Could not find table 'users'
# ./spec/models/micropost_spec.rb:5:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
6) Micropost validations should reject long content
Failure/Error: #user = Factory(:user)
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
Could not find table 'users'
# ./spec/models/micropost_spec.rb:5:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
Update 1:
I'm getting errors from 4 to 6 to 111 all with a recurring theme of
1) Micropost should create a new instance with valid attributes
Failure/Error: #user = Factory(:user)
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
Could not find table 'users'
# ./spec/models/micropost_spec.rb:53:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
Specifically the "Could not find table 'users'" - I copied the code from the tutorial git for the micropost_spec.rb file but didn't seem to fix it- maybe someone can help direct me to what the table is referring to?
////////////////////////////////////// ORIGINAL BELOW ////////////////////////////////
I am working in the Ruby on Rails Tutorial lesson 11 and am trying to populate my db to show the microposts
when I did the rake db:populate command it gave me the following:
macbook:sample_app macbook$ rake db:populate
(in /Users/macbook/rails_screencast/sample_app)
db/test.sqlite3 already exists
db/test.sqlite3 already exists
db/development.sqlite3 already exists
-- create_table("microposts", {:force=>true})
-> 0.0090s
-- add_index("microposts", ["user_id"], {:name=>"index_microposts_on_user_id"})
-> 0.0074s
-- create_table("users", {:force=>true})
-> 0.0243s
-- add_index("users", ["email"], {:name=>"index_users_on_email", :unique=>true})
-> 0.0094s
-- initialize_schema_migrations_table()
-> 0.0167s
-- assume_migrated_upto_version(20110614132314, "db/migrate")
-> 0.0432s
rake aborted!
Validation failed: Email is invalid
I ran it a couple times and kept getting the same error... when I visited the site on a browser it was like none of my sample users were there...
require 'faker'
namespace :db do
desc "Fill database with sample data"
task :populate => :environment do
Rake::Task['db:reset'].invoke
admin = User.create!(:name => "Foo Bar",
:email => "foo#bar.com",
:password => "foobar",
:password_confirmation => "foobar")
admin.toggle!(:admin)
99.times do |n|
name = Faker::Name.name
email = "example-#{n+1}#railstutorial.org"
password = "password"
User.create!(:name => name,
:email => email,
:password => password,
:password_confirmation => password)
end
User.all(:limit => 6).each do |user|
50.times do
user.microposts.create!(:content => Faker::Lorem.sentence(5))
end
end
end
end
then I decided oh maybe rake db:reset will purge my sample database and I can run the populate again with fresh stuff... bad assumption
my test suite now shows:
Finished in 0.99915 seconds
111 examples, 111 failures
Now before I mess more stuff up I'm looking for some advice where to go next ...

Answer 1

Michael (author of the railstutorial.org) responded to my email request!
If you're missing a table when running the test suite, it's probably an indication that you need to run:
rake db:test:prepare
YUP!! YAYYYY
Finished in 4.82 seconds
108 examples, 0 failures
CAKE TIME!

Answer 2

The db:populate that you're showing does a db:reset itself, so doing it manually can't have caused any problem that wasn't already happening with the db:populate.
You can just delete your db/*.sqlite3 files and start from fresh. There's nothing obvious in that db:populate code which would explain why the email validation failed, you'd have to show the User model and the validations you have in there for us to diagnose that initial issue.