# Exec format error during globalize plugin install

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exec-format-error-during-globalize-plugin-install/139137>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 31, 2008, 8:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exec-format-error-during-globalize-plugin-install/139137 "2008-05-31T08:28:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![kampers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@kampers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kampers)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 8:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exec-format-error-during-globalize-plugin-install/139137/1 "2008-05-31T08:28:04Z")

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While trying to install the globalize plugin (website down? –  
[http://www.globalize-rails.org/globalize/](http://www.globalize-rails.org/globalize/)) for Rails, all the files  
seem to be transferred and placed properly, but I get the following  
error when install.rb attempts to run:

Exec format error - rake -f C:/clients/MyClient/code/vendor/plugins/  
globalize/…/…/…/Rakefile globalize:upgrade\_schema\_to\_1\_dot\_2 &&  
exit 1

I see this same behavior when installing from both the Subversion and  
Git repositories.

I found a few references to similar problems on some of the Ruby  
mailing lists, but basically the responses were all, “Go find a Rails  
list.”

First of all, what’s the meaning of this type of error and does anyone  
know what I can do to get past this?

Environment for development looks like: Windows XP, Ruby 1.8.6, rake  
0.8.1, Rails 2.1 RC1.

Many thanks for any wisdom offered!

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**Author:** ![kampers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@kampers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kampers)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 8:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exec-format-error-during-globalize-plugin-install/139137/2 "2008-06-01T08:22:11Z")

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OK, so I fired up a Debian instance in VMWare and was able to install  
the plugin with no issues, so it seems to be an issue specific to the  
platform. Will post for the record as soon as I find out what  
specifically is going wrong.

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**Author:** ![kampers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@kampers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kampers)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 7:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/exec-format-error-during-globalize-plugin-install/139137/3 "2008-06-02T07:59:52Z")

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OK, so the plugin installation can be completed by running the rake  
task indicated in the install.rb file by hand. For some reason it  
doesn’t seem to like the “&&” notation used in the original, even  
though I’ve got cygwin running on my machine.

For the record, I also encountered a lot of problems getting the  
plugin to work as advertised after installation. The problems were  
well documented though and have to do with incompatibilities  
introduced by changes in Rails from 2.0.x to 2.1. It seems like the  
backlog of tickets for the plugin is somewhat stalled, but I was  
fortunate enough to find a fork of the project on Github (http://  
[github.com/rotuka/globalize/](http://github.com/rotuka/globalize/)) that seems to have solved all these  
issues. So far it seems to work just fine, so I would suggest that to  
interested parties who need something that works out of the box.