Can I specify the rake version?

Rails
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Hi,

Is there a clean way to ensure that a particular rails project uses a
particular version of rake?

I had a problem when a gem (calendar_date_select) upgraded my rake gem.
The newer version (0.8.4) wasn’t backward compatible with the older one
(0.7.3). Running ‘rake’ seems to use the latest version of rake,
regardless of the version of Rails, i.e. I’d specified
“RAILS_GEM_VERSION = ‘1.2.5’” in environment.rb.

Thanks,

Brian H.

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On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Brian
Hartin[email protected] wrote:

“RAILS_GEM_VERSION = ‘1.2.5’” in environment.rb.
Well you can invoke rake with a specific version number bracketed with
underscores

$rake 0.7.3

This is a standard feature of gem packaged binaries.

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Rick Denatale wrote:

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Brian
Hartin[email protected] wrote:

“RAILS_GEM_VERSION = ‘1.2.5’” in environment.rb.
Well you can invoke rake with a specific version number bracketed with
underscores

$rake 0.7.3

This is a standard feature of gem packaged binaries.

–
Rick DeNatale

Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale
WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/

Thanks. I was hoping for a way to do it in the Rails environment.rb
file, like ‘RAKE_VERSION = …’. I think I can set ‘rake path’ there,
but that seems like a hack. I’d like to just specify the version, and
let rails figure it out.

When I run ‘gem dependency rails -v 1.2.5’, I get:

Gem rails-1.2.5
rake (>= 0.7.2, runtime)
activesupport (= 1.4.4, runtime)
activerecord (= 1.15.5, runtime)
actionpack (= 1.13.5, runtime)
actionmailer (= 1.3.5, runtime)
actionwebservice (= 1.2.5, runtime)

It’s interesting that a given rails version depends on specific versions
of the ‘[active|action]*’ gems, but it will use the latest version of
Rake (over 0.7.2).

Thanks again,

Brian