Category: databases
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Aristocrats, Agendas, & Adams
Some days I think the biggest problem facing digital historians is our workflow. We are already expected to juggle archival research and secondary readings with teaching and writing. Add a digital project into the mix and the temptation to pull out one’s hair becomes almost irresistible. The madness increases when you are the primary programmer…
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Troubleshooting Rails Migrations
I’m not sure why this worked, but if it can help anyone else then here it goes . . . My rails app decided to throw a hissy fit at me by refusing to let me run rake db:migrate because (as it claimed) rake aborted! An error has occurred, all later migrations canceled: Mysql::Error: Table…
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Normality: For or Against?
I wrote this post a year ago, when the Scholars’ Lab Blog was just getting off the ground. To see the post in its original context (including the interesting conversation it sparked in the comments), click here. ****************** I’m a historian who is currently designing and/or building four databases. As I work through the complexities…