# Freeze\_gems broke my app

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeze-gems-broke-my-app/56232>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 29, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeze-gems-broke-my-app/56232 "2006-03-29T16:30:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![sp00nyg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@sp00nyg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sp00nyg)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeze-gems-broke-my-app/56232/1 "2006-03-29T16:30:00Z")

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WinXP/ruby1.8.4/rails1.0. did a “rake freeze\_gems” and got:

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## Freezing to the gems for Rails 1.0.0 rm -rf vendor/rails mkdir -p vendor/rails The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. The system cannot find the path specified. rake aborted! undefined method `to\_str’ for nil:NilClass

i’m assuming the errors occur b/c windows doesn’t know what to make of  
the unix-  
specific “rm” or the forward-slash path character. ok, that’s fine, i  
can’t  
freeze.

however, any subsequent invocation of rake gives me:

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## rake aborted! no such file to load – Z:/Tools/sandbox/config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer Z:/Tools/sandbox/rakefile:4

worse, i can no longer run webrick:

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## d:/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:21:in `require__': no such file to load -- ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer (LoadError) from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in`require’ from ./script/…/config/boot.rb:13 from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:21:in `require’ from script/server:2

yikes. so my questions, in order of importance:

1. have i hosed my app beyond the point of repair?
2. if the answer to [1] is no, is there a file i can edit to get me back  
to a  
state before the “bad time”?
3. does freeze\_gems work on win32 systems?

thanks!