# Never have been able to run rake doc:app

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/never-have-been-able-to-run-rake-doc-app/127730>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 31, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/never-have-been-able-to-run-rake-doc-app/127730 "2008-01-31T20:16:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/craigrails)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/never-have-been-able-to-run-rake-doc-app/127730/1 "2008-01-31T20:16:37Z")

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Perhaps it’s just a Fedora thing but it would be nice to generate my  
application’s API

$ rake doc:app --trace  
(in /home/storage/users/craig/svn/th-db/branches/phase5)  
\*\* Invoke doc:app (first\_time)  
\*\* Invoke doc/app/index.html (first\_time)  
rake aborted!  
Don’t know how to build task ‘doc/README\_FOR\_APP’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1634:in `[]' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:516:in`invoke\_prerequisites’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1183:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1183:in`send’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1183:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:515:in`invoke\_prerequisites’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:507:in  
`invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:501:in`synchronize’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:501:in  
`invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:518:in`invoke\_prerequisites’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1183:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1183:in`send’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1183:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:515:in`invoke\_prerequisites’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:507:in  
`invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:501:in`synchronize’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:501:in  
`invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:494:in`invoke’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1931:in `invoke_task' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1909:in`top\_level’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1909:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1909:in`top\_level’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1948:in  
`standard_exception_handling' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1903:in`top\_level’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1881:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1948:in`standard\_exception\_handling’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1878:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/bin/rake:31 /usr/bin/rake:16:in`load’  
/usr/bin/rake:16

How does one fix this?

Craig

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**Author:** ![craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/craigrails)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/never-have-been-able-to-run-rake-doc-app/127730/2 "2008-02-01T23:24:27Z")

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On 1/31/08, Craig W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> How does one fix this?

Did you already try this?

[http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/134259](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/134259)

–  
Greg D.  
[http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)