I really need some help here because I am at a loss. I have been using
migrations just fine now for a while and I suddenly started getting a
very bizarre error when migrations are run:
undefined method `autoload_paths=’ for Dependencies:Module
I have tried rolling back my application code, and rolling back the
rails edge revision I am running but neither seem to help.
I have installed the latest rails gems, even though I am running edge.
I have even restarted our server. I just have no idea what to do next.
It should be noted that everything works just fine on my windows
development machine.
Please someone help me figure out what is going on.
-Alex
[root@magneticworldinc mw]# rake db:migrate --trace
(in /home/magneticworld)
** Invoke db:migrate (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
rake aborted!
undefined method autoload_paths=' for Dependencies:Module /home/magneticworld/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:131:inset_autoload_paths’
/home/magneticworld/config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:83:in
process' /home/magneticworld/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:42:inrun’
/home/magneticworld/config/…/config/environment.rb:10
Hi Alex, is the below your full stack trace?
This happened to me, and when I ran rake with the trace, I noticed that
it was using activerecord and activesupport from my /usr/local/lib
folder and not my_proj/vendor/rails (which is edge rails).
Once I removed my rails installation from /usr/local/lib it worked as it
used the activerecord and activesupport libs from vendor/rails.
Rails folks, what is the best way to totally remove a dependency on
one’s /usr/local/lib binary and instead use the rails version in
my_proj/vendor/lib.
Thanks in Adv.
Adam
[root@magneticworldinc mw]# rake db:migrate --trace
(in /home/magneticworld)
** Invoke db:migrate (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
rake aborted!
undefined method autoload_paths=' for Dependencies:Module /home/magneticworld/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:131:inset_autoload_paths’
/home/magneticworld/config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:83:in
process' /home/magneticworld/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:42:inrun’
/home/magneticworld/config/…/config/environment.rb:10
Adam wrote:
Hi Alex, is the below your full stack trace?
This happened to me, and when I ran rake with the trace, I noticed that
it was using activerecord and activesupport from my /usr/local/lib
folder and not my_proj/vendor/rails (which is edge rails).
Once I removed my rails installation from /usr/local/lib it worked as it
used the activerecord and activesupport libs from vendor/rails.
Rails folks, what is the best way to totally remove a dependency on
one’s /usr/local/lib binary and instead use the rails version in
my_proj/vendor/lib.
Thanks in Adv.
Adam
Removing vendor/rails did allow me to migrate, I stumbled into that
myself. But in order to do it I also have to comment out my
map.resources calls or migrations crash when the rails is loading due to
bad routes which are not yet supported in the gems. So it’s really big
pain in the butt.
There is one line in the trace that does look like it is loading the
dependency module from the gems, and not vendor:
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in
`require’
I even tried uninstalling the rails gems and got “Could not find RubyGem
activesupport (= 1.3.1)” so the gems must at least be there, even if
they are out of date.
So what exactly is happening here?
here is the full trace:
=========================================================
rake aborted!
undefined method autoload_paths=' for Dependencies:Module /home/magneticworld/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:131:inset_autoload_paths’
/home/magneticworld/config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:83:in
process' /home/magneticworld/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:42:inrun’
/home/magneticworld/config/…/config/environment.rb:10
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
require' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:inrequire’
/home/magneticworld/config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/tasks/misc.rake:3
Adam wrote:
wow… that was a bit hidden.
If you have any rake tasks that have a require statement, make sure
there are no leading or trailing spaces. If there are then you will see
that error.
obscure eh? 
also check your plugins as many of them have their own tasks.
Now I can sleep better at night
Time to open up a bug for this one.
Awesome! The problem appeared to be a plugin that suddenly became
incompatible with edge rails. The rails_rcov plugin was crashing it. I
couldnt find a require with spaces in it though.
Thanks for the tip to check out my plugins.
-Alex
hey Alex
I saw someone on IRC #rubyonrails had the same issue with that plugin.
I haven’t used it, but it could also be that the code within the plugin
is calling a module that has not been declared 'require’ed at the top of
the file.
Nicholas states that spaces are not allowed. I guess this is an example
of the logic just becoming tighter and more ‘in-line’ with ruby. A tad
painful but it will probably be worth it.
Adam
wow… that was a bit hidden.
If you have any rake tasks that have a require statement, make sure
there are no leading or trailing spaces. If there are then you will see
that error.
obscure eh?
also check your plugins as many of them have their own tasks.
Now I can sleep better at night
Time to open up a bug for this one.