# Problem with running rake db:migrate on a Rails app **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 21, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-running-rake-db-migrate-on-a-rails-app/160995 "2009-02-21T23:13:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![polarapfel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/958977/32.png) [@polarapfel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/polarapfel)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-running-rake-db-migrate-on-a-rails-app/160995/1 "2009-02-21T23:13:55Z")
Hi everybody, I am trying to get the Typo blog engine up and running in development mode but I hit the wall as early as running rake db:migrate: (in /home/tweisser/workspace/typo/typo) rake aborted! no such file to load – spec/rake/spectask /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom\_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_require.rb:31:in`require’ /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:153:in `require' /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:in`new\_constants\_in’ /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:153:in `require' /home/tweisser/workspace/typo/typo/lib/tasks/rspec.rake:9 /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:142:in`load\_without\_new\_constant\_marking’ /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:142:in `load' /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:in`new\_constants\_in’ /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:142:in `load' /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/ lib/tasks/rails.rb:8 /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/ lib/tasks/rails.rb:8:in`each’ /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/ lib/tasks/rails.rb:8 /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom\_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_require.rb:31:in`require’ /home/tweisser/workspace/typo/typo/Rakefile:10 /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/ lib/rake.rb:2349:in `load' /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/ lib/rake.rb:2349:in`raw\_load\_rakefile’ /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/ lib/rake.rb:1985:in `load_rakefile' /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/ lib/rake.rb:2036:in`standard\_exception\_handling’ /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/ lib/rake.rb:1984:in `load_rakefile' /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/ lib/rake.rb:1969:in`run’ /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/ lib/rake.rb:2036:in `standard_exception_handling' /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/ lib/rake.rb:1967:in`run’ /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/ bin/rake:31 /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/rake:19:in `load’ /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/rake:19 You can see which version of Ruby I’m running. It’s symlinked by /opt/ ruby-enterprise with /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin in my $PATH. I have the latest version of gem and these gems installed: \*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\* actionmailer (2.2.2) actionpack (2.2.2) actionwebservice (1.2.6) activerecord (2.2.2) activeresource (2.2.2) activesupport (2.2.2) capistrano (2.5.4) highline (1.5.0) mysql (2.7) net-scp (1.0.2) net-sftp (2.0.2) net-ssh (2.0.10) net-ssh-gateway (1.0.1) rails (2.2.2) rake (0.8.3) rspec (1.1.12) will\_paginate (2.2.2) I don’t know what’s wrong here. Did anybody encounter this problem elsewhere? I have little to no Rails debugging experience with current Rails versions. Where to start? Thanks for your help. Tobias ---
**Author:** ![polarapfel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/958977/32.png) [@polarapfel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/polarapfel)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 4:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-running-rake-db-migrate-on-a-rails-app/160995/2 "2009-02-22T04:47:36Z")
Rake is trying to find rspec and isn`t being able to do it. Do you have any other rails version available? Are you sure that the rspec gem is installed at your current Ruby interpreter? You could also try to unpack the rspec gem into vendor/gems in your app. - Maurício Linhares [http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/](http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/) (pt-br) | [http://blog.codevader.com/](http://blog.codevader.com/) (en) ---
**Author:** ![polarapfel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/958977/32.png) [@polarapfel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/polarapfel)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-running-rake-db-migrate-on-a-rails-app/160995/3 "2009-02-22T13:39:37Z")
It’s a weird problem. rspec is installed for sure. I can use it in other Rails apps locally from within the same Ruby/Rails setup. I tried adding a git submodule for rspec to vendor/gems/rspec from the rspec github page. Still, the same errors. I switched back to Ubuntu’s Ruby installation to try if this made a difference, but the problem remains the same. It just affects Typo. Other Rails apps work fine… Thanks for your help, Tobias On Feb 22, 4:46 am, Maurício Linhares [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![polarapfel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/958977/32.png) [@polarapfel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/polarapfel)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-running-rake-db-migrate-on-a-rails-app/160995/4 "2009-02-23T01:00:52Z")
I’d recommend that you take a look at this: [http://wiki.github.com/dchelimsky/rspec/rails-with-rspec-gems](http://wiki.github.com/dchelimsky/rspec/rails-with-rspec-gems) It should help you get rspec working. –Matt J. ---
**Author:** ![polarapfel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/958977/32.png) [@polarapfel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/polarapfel)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-running-rake-db-migrate-on-a-rails-app/160995/5 "2009-04-18T05:00:20Z")
Your local gem is REE’s gem repository or MRI’s? Thats easy to be confused indeed… and seems when I tried something like rake gems:install in rails project it would always install the gem inside MRI unless you have replace the static link of rake/gem/ruby. (Yep, I am explicitly calling the rake inside REE.)