`method_missing': undefined method `devise' for User (call 'User.connection' to establish a connection)

Question

I am new to Ruby on Rails and am trying to make my first application. I am having issues though anytime I run any rails generate command. I get the following er

Answer 1

I ran into a similar problem with an existing project freshly checked out from a repo:

The specific missing files were:

config/initializers/devise.rb 
config/locales/devise.en.yml

In this case, because the devise.rb was in the .gitignore list there was a config/initializers/devise.rb.example file that could be copied over.