# PATH Error trying to freeze edge rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/path-error-trying-to-freeze-edge-rails/110279>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 24, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/path-error-trying-to-freeze-edge-rails/110279 "2007-07-24T21:44:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![rklaeboe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@rklaeboe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rklaeboe)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/path-error-trying-to-freeze-edge-rails/110279/1 "2007-07-24T21:44:16Z")

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I would like to try out the restful stuff, but when using a rake task  
for freezing edge rails I receive the following message:  
ERROR: Must have subversion (svn) available in the PATH to lock this  
application to Edge Rails. – Is this a PATH set up for rake or for  
ruby? If so - where to set the Path value? Or is this the Windows  
system environment PATH variable? In that case what does (svn) mean –  
the path to svn.exe or to the repository folder?

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**Author:** ![rklaeboe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@rklaeboe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rklaeboe)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 10:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/path-error-trying-to-freeze-edge-rails/110279/2 "2007-07-25T10:53:37Z")

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Ronny Klaeboe wrote:

> I would like to try out the restful stuff, but when using a rake task  
> for freezing edge rails I receive the following message:  
> ERROR: Must have subversion (svn) available in the PATH to lock this  
> application to Edge Rails. – Is this a PATH set up for rake or for  
> ruby? If so - where to set the Path value? Or is this the Windows  
> system environment PATH variable? In that case what does (svn) mean –  
> the path to svn.exe or to the repository folder?

– Solved: The error was indirectly due to a faulty specification of a  
Windows system path variable. Paths that include spaces cause problems,  
so I removed the spaces from the folder name. (Enclosing the path name  
in quotation marks may also work.)

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**Author:** ![rklaeboe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@rklaeboe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rklaeboe)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/path-error-trying-to-freeze-edge-rails/110279/3 "2007-07-26T00:45:44Z")

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Do you have subversion installed? It looks like rake is trying to  
execute svn to checkout the current version of edge, but it can’t find  
the svn executable (it’s not in your path).

Adam

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**Author:** ![rklaeboe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@rklaeboe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rklaeboe)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/path-error-trying-to-freeze-edge-rails/110279/4 "2007-07-27T09:12:37Z")

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Adam C. wrote:

> Do you have subversion installed? It looks like rake is trying to  
> execute svn to checkout the current version of edge, but it can’t find  
> the svn executable (it’s not in your path).
> 
> Adam

Thanks - yes, the failing path was to subversion. /Ronny