Learn Relational Databases by Building a Database of Video Game Characters - Build a Database of Video Game Characters

[hbar1st]

which part did not work?

[hbar1st]

i noticed you’ve created duplicate topics on the forum. That’s not allowed because it clutters up the forum.

With respect to your issue, please read the response here

Periodic Table Database - Build a Periodic Table Database

if you want to restart or start a new tutorial, I have some steps that can help you do that but they assume you have wsl2 installed (its the linux virtual machine on windows). If you don’t have wsl2 installed, you can still use my instructions but you should translate them to work on windows powershell (for example some commands like rm -rf would not work on powershell)

[hbar1st]

i have combined the duplicate topics into one.
If you have further questions, just ask them here instead of opening a new topic about this one exercise.

[elmobros]

OK. Maybe this is posted somewhere on the net, but if anyone is having issues with opening codeRoad to the starting page, this is for you.

Issue: CodeRoad only opening the previously completed module.
Steps to reproduce:

1. Complete a db module successfully.
2. Can close out VS code completely.
3. Reopen using ‘code .’ command in prompt and open VS code.
4. Copy User Token in the next or different module and past in docker file. This will likely just overwrite previous token.
5. Use Rebuild and Reopen.
6. Run CodeRoad. The previous tutorial shows up without access to start page to paste the new URL.

To legitimately start a new module and be able to start a fresh codeRoad. Do this:

1. After completing a module, completely remove rdb-alpha in current location.
2. Go to a different directory/location.
3. Now use git clone https: …. etc.
4. enter cd rdb-alpha and then ‘code .’ command.
5. Copy paste user token into docker file as instructed.
6. Use Rebuild and Reopen
7. Then use CodeRoad.

Now it should open CodeRoad to the actual starting page to paste in a new URL.

I think the whole deleting and saving rdb alpha in a new, different location should be mentioned on the actual freecodecamp tutorial page. This was a frustrating issue to deal with while trying to progress through the modules for databases.

I don’t know if the deletion part is absolutely necessary, but I would recommend it to try and avoid any conflicts. This may work without deletion of old rdb alpha directory, but git clone in a new directory is crucial.

I could guess why these steps work. Maybe rdb-alpha has a specific configuration once the user starts a new URL tutorial and reloading always opens codeRoad to where you last left it. idk. Does anyone know specifically why? I would love to know. Maybe it’s possible to just change a line of code/text in a file inside of rdb-alpha.

Thank you