Simply Rails 2 file not the same

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Hi,
I don’t know if I’m just being stupid, but in Chapter 5 p121, you have to generate a model. Done. Everything looks good.

But, it should also create this file, db/migrate/001_create_stories.rb, which it did, but instead of 001 it has a huge number. This is what it made: 20100316162739_create_stories.rb .

Sorry if this is a stupid query, but I would just like to know if this is supposed to happen or not? It’s not a train crash, as everything still works fine. Just a newbie to rails, and just want to make sure that this is not going to cause any possible future problems! Thanks

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You’re still good. Rails was updated since the version in the book, and migration files are now preceded with the timestamp instead of just 001, 002, etc.

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Thanks! Glad that it’s all good!

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If you look closely, it’s technically not a timestamp as in UNIX (number of seconds), but is the date/time in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format. Actually quite human-readable once you know what it is.