Beginner cant get rake to work

[okkezSS]

Hello

I am new to ruby on rails and trying to get it going on a windows
machine

However when I try to run the rake task it always fail with the
following error message

C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:340:in bin_path': can't find executable rake for rake-0.8.7 (Gem::Exception) from C:/Ruby192/bin/rake:19:in’

and I am not quite sure what I should do to fix it…

Thank you in Advance

Jon W

[jon_w]

When you run “gem list” from the command line, does it list “rake
(0.8.7)”?

If it does not, run “gem install rake”.

[jon_w]

gem list posts

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

…
rake (0.8.7)
…

and try installing and updating using gem but still doesnt work

[jon_w]

On Oct 15, 12:56am, “Jon W.” [email protected] wrote:

gem list posts

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

…
rake (0.8.7)
…

and try installing and updating using gem but still doesnt work

Is a bug in Ruby 1.9.2 and the bundled rake.

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/browse_thread/thread/9817d0c6c8a48a79/
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3805

The solution is in the RubyInstaller thread (remove of rake.gemspec or
rename to rake-0.8.7.gemspec)

–
Luis L.

[jon_w]

Okay that fixed the dependicies for the shell, seems like there is
something wrong with the gem though.

When i try to use rake from my IDE it searches for the gem and it fails.

Well I can work around it. Thank you

[jon_w]

Well, it’s definitely a path problem with Windows…it can’t find the
executable “rake”. It’s been a while since I developed rails on a
windows machine but when I did I used “ruby installer”…it worked as
advertised.

http://rubyinstaller.org/

Whatever ruby setup you’re using, see if you can find anything about
modifying your path so windows knows where to find rubygems.