By including name:string and email:string, we have arranged for the User model to have the form shown in Figure 2.2. (Note that there is no need to include a parameter for id; it is created automatically by Rails for use as the primary key in the database.)

To proceed with the demo application, we first need to migrate the database using Rake (Box 2.1):

This simply updates the database with our new users data model. (We’ll learn more about database migrations starting in Section 6.1.1.) Note that, in order to ensure that the command uses the version of Rake corresponding to our Gemfile, we need to run rake using bundle exec