By creating the db in the container on composition, the first migration file rejects the schema of the empty database. All I had to do was remove db creation from docker so that db:prepare will default to creating open_food_network_dev from schema.rb rather than perceiving a mismatch from the precreated docker db

compose.yaml

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ services:
     environment:
       POSTGRES_PASSWORD: f00d
       POSTGRES_USER: ofn
-      POSTGRES_DB: open_food_network_dev
     ports:
       - 5432:5432
     volumes: