# Install error for rails-widgets

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 15, 2009, 9:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-error-for-rails-widgets/165561 "2009-04-15T09:39:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 9:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-error-for-rails-widgets/165561/1 "2009-04-15T09:39:36Z")

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When i am trying to install the rails-widgets on windows vista from  
[http://wiki.github.com/paolodona/rails-widgets](http://wiki.github.com/paolodona/rails-widgets) location I get an error.  
Please help.  
cd myrails-app  
ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/paolodona/rails-widgets.git  
rake widgets:setup

## following is the error

rake aborted!  
Don’t know how to build task ‘widgets:setup’

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

* * *

Then I tried with the following command  
rake widgets:setup --trace

## following is the error

rake aborted!  
Don’t know how to build task ‘widgets:setup’  
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:1704:in `[]' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2026:in `invoke\_task’  
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2005:in  
`top_level' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2005:in `each’  
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2005:in  
`top_level' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2044:in `standard\_exception\_handling’  
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:1999:in  
`top_level' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:1977:in `run’  
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2044:in  
`standard_exception_handling' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:1974:in `run’  
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/bin/rake:31  
c:/ruby/bin/rake:16:in `load’  
c:/ruby/bin/rake:16

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**Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 10:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-error-for-rails-widgets/165561/2 "2009-04-15T10:50:31Z")

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This is what you should see as a result of your plugin install:

/widgets 516 \> script/plugin install  
git://github.com/paolodona/rails-widgets.git  
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/rick/widgets/vendor/plugins/  
rails-widgets/.git/  
remote: Counting objects: 78, done.  
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (71/71), done.  
remote: Total 78 (delta 8), reused 21 (delta 0)  
Unpacking objects: 100% (78/78), done.  
From git://github.com/paolodona/rails-widgets

- branch HEAD -\> FETCH\_HEAD  
cp /Users/rick/widgets/vendor/plugins/rails-widgets/images/  
tooltip\_arrow.gif /Users/rick/widgets/public/images/widgets/  
tooltip\_arrow.gif  
cp /Users/rick/widgets/vendor/plugins/rails-widgets/images/  
tooltip\_image.gif /Users/rick/widgets/public/images/widgets/  
tooltip\_image.gif  
cp /Users/rick/widgets/vendor/plugins/rails-widgets/javascripts/  
tooltip.js /Users/rick/widgets/public/javascripts/widgets/tooltip.js

Did you omit this output from your mail message or what? Was any  
output produced when you ran the install?

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**Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-error-for-rails-widgets/165561/3 "2009-04-15T16:04:44Z")

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When I executed the install command, I did not get any output. The only  
thing  
I noticed after investigating my application directory is that, it  
created a  
directory in vendor/plugins/rails-widgets. However, this directory is  
empty.

Thanks,

Rick-13 wrote:

> remote: Total 78 (delta 8), reused 21 (delta 0)  
> tooltip.js /Users/rick/widgets/public/javascripts/widgets/tooltip.js
> 
> > error.  
> > (See full trace by running task with --trace)  
> > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2026:in  
> > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:1974:in `run’

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**Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-error-for-rails-widgets/165561/4 "2009-04-16T04:54:39Z")

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Are you running Rails 2.3.2 by any chance? If so, you might need to  
patch a file related to “plugin install git…”