diff --git a/Support/bin/insert_add_column_or_create_table.rb b/Support/bin/insert_add_column_or_create_table.rb
index 46a26f00..54869457 100755
--- a/Support/bin/insert_add_column_or_create_table.rb
+++ b/Support/bin/insert_add_column_or_create_table.rb
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def unprepend(text, prefix)
 end
 
 # Find 'self.down' method
-if self_down = buffer.find { /^(\s*)def\s+self\.down\b/ }
+if self_down = buffer.find { /^(\s*)def\s+(self\.|)down\b/ }
   indentation = self_down[1]
 
   # Find the matching create_table clause in the schema.rb file
diff --git a/Support/bin/intelligent_migration_snippet.rb b/Support/bin/intelligent_migration_snippet.rb
index 12c75bd7..0c886894 100755
--- a/Support/bin/intelligent_migration_snippet.rb
+++ b/Support/bin/intelligent_migration_snippet.rb
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ def insert_migration(snippet, text)
   # find the beginning of self.down and insert down code, this is hardly robust.
   # assuming self.down is after self.up in the class
   lines.each_with_index do |line, i|
-    if line =~ /^\s*def\s+self\.down\b/
+    if line =~ /^\s*def\s+(self\.|)down\b/
       lines[i, 1] = [lines[i], down_code]
       break
     end