When running ‘rake freeze_gems’ on windows XP I get the following
errors. Is freeze_gems supported on windows or is something else
going on? I get the same results on XP professional and home edition.
Ruby and rubygems was installed from the latest windows installer at
ruby-lang.org.
C:\test>rake freeze_gems
(in C:/test)
rm -rf vendor/rails
mkdir -p vendor/rails
Freezing to your latest Rails gems
The system cannot find the path specified.
rake aborted!
undefined method `to_str’ for nil:NilClass
snacktime wrote:
Freezing to your latest Rails gems
The system cannot find the path specified.
rake aborted!
undefined method `to_str’ for nil:NilClass
Assuming you’re using rails-0.14.2, the only way that I have been
able to use freeze_gems on XP is to edit framework.rake[1] and
change as follows:
Line 7: Change “cd vendor/rails; gem unpack #{gem}” to “cd
vendor/rails && gem unpack #{gem}”
Line 11: Change “cd vendor/rails; gem unpack rails” to “cd
vendor/rails && gem unpack rails”
See also Zachary Pinter’s blog about the same problem[2].
If you have already run freeze_gems unsuccessfully, you will need
to remove the vendor directory, otherwise you’ll get an error
about ./config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.
Paul.
[1] C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-0.14.2\lib\tasks
[2]
http://blog.zacharypinter.com/articles/2005/10/26/freeze_gems-problems