# Cannot freeze gems

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-freeze-gems/120877>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 21, 2007, 12:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-freeze-gems/120877 "2007-11-21T12:17:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![deliak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@deliak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/deliak)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 12:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-freeze-gems/120877/1 "2007-11-21T12:17:31Z")

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Running rake rails:freeze:gems I got the following error:

[root@WiNN-Mesh web\_interface]# /usr/local/bin/rake rails:freeze:gems  
–trace  
(in /usr/sbin/web\_interface)  
\*\* Invoke rails:freeze:gems (first\_time)  
\*\* Execute rails:freeze:gems  
Freezing to the gems for Rails 1.2.5  
rm -rf vendor/rails  
mkdir -p vendor/rails  
cd vendor/rails  
rake aborted!  
uninitialized constant Gem::GemRunner  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:2028:in  
`const_missing' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.5/lib/tasks/framework.rake:26 /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.5/lib/tasks/framework.rake:25:in`each’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.5/lib/tasks/framework.rake:25  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:121:in `chdir' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:121:in`chdir’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:805:in `chdir' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.5/lib/tasks/framework.rake:24 /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:392:in`call’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:392:in  
`execute' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:392:in`each’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:392:in  
`execute' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:362:in`invoke’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:in `synchronize' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:355:in`invoke’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1739:in  
`top_level' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1739:in`each’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1739:in  
`top_level' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1761:in`standard\_exception\_handling’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1733:in  
`top_level' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1711:in`run’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1761:in  
`standard_exception_handling' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1708:in`run’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/bin/rake:7  
/usr/local/bin/rake:16:in `load’  
/usr/local/bin/rake:16

I 'm runnin rubygems with the following environment:

RubyGems Environment:

- RUBYGEMS VERSION: 0.9.5 (0.9.5)
- RUBY VERSION: 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [arm-linux]
- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/
- RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/local/bin/ruby
- RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
  - ruby
  - arm-linux

- GEM PATHS:
  - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/

- GEM CONFIGURATION:
  - :update\_sources =\> true
  - :verbose =\> true
  - :benchmark =\> false
  - :backtrace =\> false
  - :bulk\_threshold =\> 1000

Any clues on what to do?