# Multiple rakes on OSX

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/multiple-rakes-on-osx/190311>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 17, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/multiple-rakes-on-osx/190311 "2010-06-17T16:22:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![hatless](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/848f3c/32.png) [@hatless](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hatless)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/multiple-rakes-on-osx/190311/1 "2010-06-17T16:22:46Z")

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Hey guys-

I’m trying to work on getting Shoes working on OSX, and I’m having a  
small  
issue…

Shoes builds its own Ruby, in /tmp/dep. This also gets it its own  
rubygems  
and rake:

$ which rake  
/tmp/dep/bin/rake

So far so good. But when I run ‘rake’ to compile things, apparently it’s  
not  
using that rake:

$ rake --trace

/Users/steveklabnik/.rvm/gems/ree-1.8.7-2010.01/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:1998:in

> `run’

/tmp/dep/bin/rake:31:in `’

$

Does anyone have any knowledge of this kind of thing? How can I get it  
to  
use the correct rake? I have a feeling this is why it’s not building  
correctly…

-Steve

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**Author:** ![hatless](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/848f3c/32.png) [@hatless](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hatless)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/multiple-rakes-on-osx/190311/2 "2010-06-17T16:27:03Z")

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On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Steve K.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote:

> > `run’  
> > -Steve

In my ~/.profile, rvm sources a bunch of bash scripts that allow it to  
redirect my ruby, gems, and their executables (this is what they direct  
you  
to add to that file manually when you get to the Post Install –  
[http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/](http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/)). I don’t know how to read  
bash  
to really understand what it is doing, but I would expect that is where  
the  
problem is. Shoes and rvm competing for the same command.

* * *

First thing I would try is  
$ rvm use system

Then run your thing again. I don’t know how “rvm use system” works, but  
if  
it unsets all the rvm aliases, then your environment might look like  
what  
shoes was expecting.

* * *

If that doesn’t work, then I would try to give the path when invoking  
rake

$ pwd  
/tmp/dep

$ ls  
[files] Rakefile [more files]

$ bin/rake  
(hopefully executes your default task)

If that works, you could try to learn enough bash to maybe give yourself  
a  
function that aliases rake to /tmp/dep/bin/rake (if you go to the bash  
irc  
channel, and put up with being mocked for an hour / show that you are  
trying  
to follow whatever scraps of ideas they deign to toss at you, someone  
will  
eventually feel pity on you, and help you fix whatever bash script  
you’re  
trying to write) that would then allow you to develop like normal, after  
you  
invoke the function, but outside the shoes dev time, rvm would still be  
your  
Ruby queen.

* * *

The rvm guy is also on IRC. If none of the above works, you could ask  
him  
for suggestions [http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/support/irc/](http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/support/irc/)