Just a small update, I got this issue fixed by downgrading the version of 'mysql' gem that I installed from 2.8.1 to 2.7 and the rake db:migrate stopped throwing the 'Virtual Time Expired' error.
Thanks On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:17 AM, v4 forums <v4for...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I am new to RoR and in the past couple of years, I was mostly involved in > Java/J2EE programming. > > I've just started learning ruby and rails from the last few days. > Programming in Ruby on Rails is fun, the one thing I like the most is not > worrying about the boiler plate code implementations that we quite often end > up/setting up while developing any web application. But for some reason, I > found it was not that easy to install RoR on a linux machine like with > Ubuntu and get it running. I had to spend quite a lot of time to get my > ruby, rails installed and bring up the webrick server. It doesn't end there, > I had some older version of e-books for Rails which used to have classic > pagination and scaffolding stuff which simple doesn't work on the later > version of rails. It was quite bit late to realize all these changes in > place for Rails 2.3.5 but then I managed to come out of every problem that I > faced and was able to build my first rails application. It all went good > until this error when I tried to create some sessions on the database > through rake or even for that matter run db:migrate via rake. Even running > rake with 'trace' on didn't helped me much. > > *Virtual Timer Expired* (on executing rake > db:sessions:create or db:migrate) > > As I did some googling around, the only suggestion I finding is re-install > or downgrade ruby version. But it is the last thing I would like to do after > progressing this long. > > I will be really glad to hear from you, if there is a better solution to > fix this problem. > > The details of my current environment are follows: > > OS : Ubuntu Jaunty Jakalope > Ruby Version : ruby 1.8.6 (2010-02-05 patchlevel 399) [i686-linux] > Rails Version: Rails 2.3.5 > Rake Version: rake, version 0.8.7 > Database: mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.75, for debian-linux-gnu (i486) > using readline 5.2 > > Thanks > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
