# Config.gem dependencies broken?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/config-gem-dependencies-broken/154539>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 1, 2008, 1:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/config-gem-dependencies-broken/154539 "2008-12-01T13:16:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![joergbattermann](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@joergbattermann](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joergbattermann)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 1:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/config-gem-dependencies-broken/154539/1 "2008-12-01T13:16:06Z")

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Hello there,

I am having some strange problems with my project’s gem dependencies  
on my staging server and really don’t know where this is coming from.

My config.gem entries in the environment.rb file are the following:

— snip —

config.gem “geonames”  
config.gem “yelp”  
config.gem ‘oauth’, :version =\> “\>= 0.2.1”  
config.gem “vikinggem”, :lib =\> “viking”  
config.gem “RedCloth”, :lib =\> “redcloth”, :version =\> “\>= 4.0”  
config.gem ‘pager-retardase\_inhibitor’, :lib =\>  
‘retardase\_inhibitor’, :source =\> ‘[http://gems.github.com](http://gems.github.com)’  
config.gem ‘right\_aws’  
config.gem ‘mime-types’, :lib =\> ‘mime/types’  
config.gem ‘json’  
config.gem ‘hpricot’  
config.gem ‘uuidtools’  
config.gem ‘chronic’  
config.gem ‘htmlentities’

— snip —

Now when I do a gem list --local on the affected machine, it looks  
like this:

\*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\*

— snip —

actionmailer (2.2.2)  
actionpack (2.2.2)  
activerecord (2.2.2)  
activeresource (2.2.2)  
activesupport (2.2.2)  
capistrano (2.5.2)  
chronic (0.2.3)  
fastthread (1.0.1)  
geonames (0.2.2)  
highline (1.5.0)  
hoe (1.8.2)  
hpricot (0.6.164)  
htmlentities (4.0.0)  
image\_science (1.1.3)  
json (1.1.3)  
mime-types (1.15)  
net-scp (1.0.1)  
net-sftp (2.0.1)  
net-ssh (2.0.4)  
net-ssh-gateway (1.0.0)  
oauth (0.2.7)  
pager-retardase\_inhibitor (1.0.20080518)  
passenger (2.0.3)  
rack (0.4.0)  
rails (2.2.2)  
rake (0.8.3)  
RedCloth (4.1.1)  
right\_aws (1.9.0)  
right\_http\_connection (1.2.4)  
rspec (1.1.11)  
ruby-hmac (0.3.2)  
ruby-openid (2.1.2)  
rubyforge (1.0.1)  
rubygems-update (1.3.1)  
RubyInline (3.8.1)  
uuidtools (1.0.4)  
vikinggem (0.0.3)  
yelp (0.2.1)  
ZenTest (3.11.0)

— snip —

Nooow when I do a rake gems in my project’s folder, I get the  
following:

— snip —

(in /var/www/project\_abc/releases/20081201014151)

- [I] geonames
- [I] yelp
  - [I] json = 1.1.3
  - [] hoe = 1.8.2
  - [] rubyforge = 1.0.1
  - [I] rake = 0.8.3

- [I] oauth \>= 0.2.1
  - [I] ruby-hmac = 0.3.2
    - [] hoe = 1.8.2
    - [] rubyforge = 1.0.1
    - [I] rake = 0.8.3

  - [] hoe = 1.8.2
  - [] rubyforge = 1.0.1
  - [I] rake = 0.8.3

- [I] vikinggem
- [I] RedCloth \>= 4.0  
rake aborted!  
You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!  
The error occurred while evaluating nil.dependencies  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/rails/gem\_dependency.rb:  
77:in `dependencies' /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `to\_proc’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/rails/gem\_dependency.rb:  
80:in `map' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/rails/gem_dependency.rb: 80:in `dependencies’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/tasks/gems.rake:15:in  
`print_gem_status' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/tasks/gems.rake:4 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/tasks/gems.rake:3:in `each’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/tasks/gems.rake:3  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:617:in `call' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:617:in `execute’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:612:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:612:in `execute’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:578:in  
`invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:571:in  
`invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:564:in `invoke’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2019:in  
`invoke_task' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `top\_level’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `top\_level’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2036:in  
`standard_exception_handling' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1991:in `top\_level’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1970:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2036:in `standard\_exception\_handling’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1967:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/bin/rake:31 /usr/bin/rake:19:in `load’  
/usr/bin/rake:19

— snip —

First of all, why is it saying hoe/rubyforge is missing (as they are  
listed in the gems list --local list) & secondly, why’s there a  
nil.dependencies exception?

Apparently this also does break my app, since all views that rely on  
acts\_as\_textiled throw a “ActionView::TemplateError (uninitialized  
constant Err::Acts::Textiled::ClassMethods::RedCloth) …” exception.

I already did a sudo gem uninstall/clean/install of all gems… no  
change :-/

joerg@staging:~$ ruby -v  
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [x86\_64-linux]  
joerg@staging:~$ rails -v  
Rails 2.2.2

Hrm. Any ideas? Suggestions? I am seriously kinda lost here…

Thanks,  
-Joerg