Syntax error when creating a Rails model

Question

I am creating Car model in Rails 3 by using command:

rails generate model Car name:string id_str:string

but I got the error:

Answer 1

This error usually happens when you are trying to use the Ruby 1.9.2 Hash syntax with Ruby < 1.9.

In Ruby 1.9.2 the following code works perfectly

Myapp::Application.config.session_store :cookie_store, key: '_myapp_session'

while in Ruby < 1.9 you must use

Myapp::Application.config.session_store :cookie_store, :key => '_myapp_session'

This is strange, because your stack trace references Ruby 1.9.2. Are you sure you are running the generator with Ruby 1.9.2?

In any case, you can convert your session_store.rb file to the hash-rocket syntax. If it works, it means you are not using Ruby 1.9.2 and you pasted an invalid error message.