# Getting rake abort when doing rake rails:freeze

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-rake-abort-when-doing-rake-rails-freeze/119236>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 5, 2007, 9:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-rake-abort-when-doing-rake-rails-freeze/119236 "2007-11-05T09:29:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![chanhuai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@chanhuai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chanhuai)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 9:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-rake-abort-when-doing-rake-rails-freeze/119236/1 "2007-11-05T09:29:32Z")

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hi  
i try to freeze rails and getting this error.  
crankky:~/rails/dev/autopolishine/trunk/vendor LaiChanHuai$ rake  
rails:freeze --trace  
(in /Users/LaiChanHuai/rails/dev/autopolishine/trunk)  
rake aborted!  
Don’t know how to build task ‘rails:freeze’  
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1472:in `[]' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1739:in`top\_level’  
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1739:in  
`each' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1739:in`top\_level’  
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1761:in  
`standard_exception_handling' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1733:in`top\_level’  
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1711:in `run' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1761:in`standard\_exception\_handling’  
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake.rb:1708:in `run' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/bin/rake:7 /opt/local/bin/rake:16:in`load’  
/opt/local/bin/rake:16

any advice?

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**Author:** ![chanhuai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@chanhuai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chanhuai)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 10:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-rake-abort-when-doing-rake-rails-freeze/119236/2 "2007-11-05T10:24:36Z")

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> any advice?

I think you need to use rake -

Freeze to your installed version of rails:

rake rails:freeze:gems

Freeze to edge rails (latest version, probably not a good idea as rails  
has had some radical changes lately. If you want to do RESTful dev then  
go for it 🙂 ):

rake rails:freeze:edge

Freeze to a specific version, eg 1.2.3:

rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel\_1.2.3

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**Author:** ![chanhuai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@chanhuai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chanhuai)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 10:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-rake-abort-when-doing-rake-rails-freeze/119236/3 "2007-11-05T10:45:10Z")

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Max W. wrote:

> > any advice?
> 
> I think you need to use rake -
> 
> Freeze to your installed version of rails:
> 
> rake rails:freeze:gems
> 
> Freeze to edge rails (latest version, probably not a good idea as rails  
> has had some radical changes lately. If you want to do RESTful dev then  
> go for it 🙂 ):
> 
> rake rails:freeze:edge
> 
> Freeze to a specific version, eg 1.2.3:
> 
> rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel\_1.2.3

BTW, with this last one, you need to have the version installed locally  
before freezing it - get an earlier version (if you want to) with (eg)

gem install rails -v1.2.3

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**Author:** ![chanhuai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@chanhuai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chanhuai)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-rake-abort-when-doing-rake-rails-freeze/119236/4 "2007-11-05T18:40:38Z")

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Max W. wrote:

> 

> Freeze to a specific version, eg 1.2.3:
> 
> rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel\_1.2.3

Sorry, this is incorrect! It should be

rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel\_1-2-3

ie, the full stops are replaced with hyphens in the version number.

Apologies!  
max

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**Author:** ![chanhuai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@chanhuai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chanhuai)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-rake-abort-when-doing-rake-rails-freeze/119236/5 "2007-11-07T14:16:02Z")

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hi thanks  
this help =)

On Nov 6, 1:40 am, Max W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)