Truffle Migrate Not Deploying After second migration - ethereum

Question

I'm trying to test gas expenditures of different types and implementations of common contracts (e.g. OpenZeppelin).
I am using Truffle migrate to deploy these contracts, and have an instance of ganache-cli mainnet fork running in the background on local host, forked from an Infura node.
When I first spin up the ganache instance, then go on truffle console to migrate - everything works fine. It compiles, then deploys, and I am able to see how much gas was used, block timestamp, etc.
However, when I add another solidity file (representing another contract to test) to the contracts folder or replace the old one with a new contract, then do truffle migrate, it only compiles it. I read that truffle migrate sees that the network is up-to-date and does not update. Ok, fine.
So I try deleting the build folder, and hit migrate --reset. Same thing, no deployment.
When I reset the ganache-cli fork and also restart truffle console (coupled with deleting the build folder), now it works and I am able to see the transaction information that I need from the deployment. But it's more tedious than it needs to be, and I think I'm missing something here.
Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Am I overlooking a truffle command or migrate option? Do I need to change my initial migration js file? It looks like this:
const Migrations = artifacts.require("Migrations");
module.exports = function (deployer) {
deployer.deploy(Migrations);
};
The contract migration files are pretty much the same except with the smart contract info:
const GameItems = artifacts.require("GameItems");
module.exports = function (deployer) {
deployer.deploy(GameItems);
};
Migrations.sol is the one that comes with truffle init:
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity >=0.4.22 <0.9.0;
contract Migrations {
address public owner = msg.sender;
uint public last_completed_migration;
modifier restricted() {
require(
msg.sender == owner,
"This function is restricted to the contract's owner"
);
_;
}
function setCompleted(uint completed) public restricted {
last_completed_migration = completed;
}
}
This is what my truffle-config.js file looks like:
/**
* Use this file to configure your truffle project. It's seeded with some
* common settings for different networks and features like migrations,
* compilation and testing. Uncomment the ones you need or modify
* them to suit your project as necessary.
*
* More information about configuration can be found at:
*
* trufflesuite.com/docs/advanced/configuration
*
* To deploy via Infura you'll need a wallet provider (like #truffle/hdwallet-provider)
* to sign your transactions before they're sent to a remote public node. Infura accounts
* are available for free at: infura.io/register.
*
* You'll also need a mnemonic - the twelve word phrase the wallet uses to generate
* public/private key pairs. If you're publishing your code to GitHub make sure you load this
* phrase from a file you've .gitignored so it doesn't accidentally become public.
*
*/
const HDWalletProvider = require("#truffle/hdwallet-provider");
// const infuraKey = "....";
//
// const fs = require('fs');
// const mnemonic = fs.readFileSync(".secret").toString().trim();
module.exports = {
/**
* Networks define how you connect to your ethereum client and let you set the
* defaults web3 uses to send transactions. If you don't specify one truffle
* will spin up a development blockchain for you on port 9545 when you
* run `develop` or `test`. You can ask a truffle command to use a specific
* network from the command line, e.g
*
* $ truffle test --network <network-name>
*/
networks: {
// Useful for testing. The `development` name is special - truffle uses it by default
// if it's defined here and no other network is specified at the command line.
// You should run a client (like ganache-cli, geth or parity) in a separate terminal
// tab if you use this network and you must also set the `host`, `port` and `network_id`
// options below to some value.
//
development: {
host: "127.0.0.1", // Localhost (default: none)
port: 8545, // Standard Ethereum port (default: none)
network_id: "*", // Any network (default: none)
},
// Another network with more advanced options...
// advanced: {
// port: 8777, // Custom port
// network_id: 1342, // Custom network
// gas: 8500000, // Gas sent with each transaction (default: ~6700000)
// gasPrice: 20000000000, // 20 gwei (in wei) (default: 100 gwei)
// from: <address>, // Account to send txs from (default: accounts[0])
// websocket: true // Enable EventEmitter interface for web3 (default: false)
// },
// Useful for deploying to a public network.
// NB: It's important to wrap the provider as a function.
rinkeby: {
provider: () =>
new HDWalletProvider(
"",
`api end piont`
),
network_id: 4, // Rinkeby's id
gas: 5500000, // Ropsten has a lower block limit than mainnet
confirmations: 2, // # of confs to wait between deployments. (default: 0)
timeoutBlocks: 200, // # of blocks before a deployment times out (minimum/default: 50)
skipDryRun: true, // Skip dry run before migrations? (default: false for public nets )
},
// mainnet: {
// provider: () =>
// new HDWalletProvider(
// "",
// "
// ),
// network_id: 1, // mainnet
// gas: 5500000,
// gasPrice: 2000000000, // check https://ethgasstation.info/
// confirmations: 2, // # of confs to wait between deployments. (default: 0)
// timeoutBlocks: 200, // # of blocks before a deployment times out (minimum/default: 50)
// skipDryRun: false, // Skip dry run before migrations? (default: false for public nets )
// },
// Useful for private networks
// private: {
// provider: () => new HDWalletProvider(mnemonic, `https://network.io`),
// network_id: 2111, // This network is yours, in the cloud.
// production: true // Treats this network as if it was a public net. (default: false)
// }
},
// Set default mocha options here, use special reporters etc.
mocha: {
// timeout: 100000
},
// Configure your compilers
compilers: {
solc: {
version: "0.8.7", // Fetch exact version from solc-bin (default: truffle's version)
// docker: true, // Use "0.5.1" you've installed locally with docker (default: false)
// settings: { // See the solidity docs for advice about optimization and evmVersion
// optimizer: {
// enabled: false,
// runs: 200
// },
// evmVersion: "byzantium"
// }
},
},
plugins: ["truffle-plugin-verify"],
api_keys: {
etherscan: "",
},
// Truffle DB is currently disabled by default; to enable it, change enabled: false to enabled: true
//
// Note: if you migrated your contracts prior to enabling this field in your Truffle project and want
// those previously migrated contracts available in the .db directory, you will need to run the following:
// $ truffle migrate --reset --compile-all
db: {
enabled: false,
},
};
Much appreciation in advance.