So, perhaps you've set up a fancy application using padrino , datamapper and sqlite and you are going great guns until padrino rake dm:migrate => Executing Rake dm:migrate ... rake aborted! uninitialized constant Text Or something similar - the datatype is probably not too important. The solution is to edit your migration and put the datatype into quotes....like this: column :description, "TEXT" There seems to be a bug with the use of datamapper and the migration. I'm not sure where the bug is, but this fixes it!
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