# Is it possible to run rake on the latest binary release of IronRuby? **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [May 9, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-run-rake-on-the-latest-binary-release-of-ironruby/167529 "2009-05-09T01:01:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Patrick\_van\_der\_Vel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@Patrick\_van\_der\_Vel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Patrick_van_der_Vel)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-run-rake-on-the-latest-binary-release-of-ironruby/167529/1 "2009-05-09T01:01:20Z")
Hi All I was wondering if it was possible to run rake (or irake) on the latest binary release of IronRuby. I’ve searched the mailing list but all posts relating to rake are several months old and are not related to the binary releases ☹ I’ve tried to run irake but I’m getting NotImplementedExceptions when I run it. If anybody has suggestions that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Patrick ---
**Author:** ![Patrick\_van\_der\_Vel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@Patrick\_van\_der\_Vel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Patrick_van_der_Vel)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-run-rake-on-the-latest-binary-release-of-ironruby/167529/2 "2009-05-09T03:35:46Z")
It definitely works for me, as I can do things like irake db:migrate, but this is out of my fork’s railsconf branch; I’ll be making sure the main repo has all the necessary fixed to run rake and rails without any major workarounds. ~Jimmy Sent from my phone On May 8, 2009, at 4:00 PM, “Patrick van der Velde” \ **Author:** ![Patrick\_van\_der\_Vel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@Patrick\_van\_der\_Vel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Patrick_van_der_Vel)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2009, 2:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-run-rake-on-the-latest-binary-release-of-ironruby/167529/3 "2009-05-10T02:12:41Z") Hiya Mmm ok I’m a little confused here. So irake does work but possibly not on the latest binary release? Also does irake need rake under the covers or should it just be able to run rake files without any link to Ruby. I haven’t got Ruby installed on my machine (but I do have ironruby). Also do I need to set any paths etc? Sorry about all the stupid questions but I’m very new to ironruby (and ruby actually) so I’m not sure where to search for the solution to my problem. Thanks Patrick On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 13:35, Jimmy S. ---
**Author:** ![Patrick\_van\_der\_Vel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@Patrick\_van\_der\_Vel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Patrick_van_der_Vel)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2009, 8:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-run-rake-on-the-latest-binary-release-of-ironruby/167529/4 "2009-05-10T08:36:55Z")
Hi Patrick You will need the rake gem to be installed in IronRuby for the irake command to work. You can do that with the igem command igem install rake ## I assume you’re using windows because the igem command is broken again on mono. Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto C. Blog: [http://flanders.co.nz](http://flanders.co.nz) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/casualjim](http://twitter.com/casualjim) Author of IronRuby in Action ([http://manning.com/carrero](http://manning.com/carrero)) Charles Kuralt[http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles\_kuralt.html](http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_kuralt.html) - “You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.” On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Patrick van der Velde \< ---
**Author:** ![Patrick\_van\_der\_Vel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@Patrick\_van\_der\_Vel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Patrick_van_der_Vel)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2009, 8:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-run-rake-on-the-latest-binary-release-of-ironruby/167529/5 "2009-05-10T08:55:03Z")
Hiya Ok so I installed rake and got: C:\languages\ironruby\bin\>igem install rake Successfully installed rake-0.8.5 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for rake-0.8.5… Invalid output formatter For help on options, try ‘rdoc --help’ Then I assume that not having the documentation is not a problem so I try to run irake but get: C:\languages\ironruby\bin\>irake :0:in `to_proc': The method or operation is not implemented. (System::NotImplementedException) from alt_system.rb:0 from :0:in`require’ from custom\_require.rb:26:in `require' from win32.rb:0 from :0:in`require’ from custom\_require.rb:26:in `require' from rake.rb:0 from :0:in`require’ from custom\_require.rb:26:in `require' from rake:0 from :0:in`load’ from irake:0 Any ideas on this one? Am I missing more gems? Oh and yes I’m on a Windows machine 🙂 Thanks Patrick