# Problems freezing gems to rails 1.2.1?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-freezing-gems-to-rails-1-2-1/82871>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 22, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-freezing-gems-to-rails-1-2-1/82871 "2007-01-22T01:40:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![askegg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9e8a1a/32.png) [@askegg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/askegg)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-freezing-gems-to-rails-1-2-1/82871/1 "2007-01-22T01:40:33Z")

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Hi All,

Here is a brief summary of the problem:

iMac:/Users/askegg root# rails -v  
Rails 1.2.1

iMac:/Users/askegg root# rails hack  
create  
create app/controllers  
  
create log/test.log

iMac:/Users/askegg root# cd hack

iMac:/Users/askegg/hack root# rake rails:freeze:gems  
(in /Users/askegg/hack)  
/Users/askegg/hack/config/boot.rb:29:Warning: require\_gem is obsolete.  
Use gem instead.  
Freezing to the gems for Rails 1.2.1  
rm -rf vendor/rails  
mkdir -p vendor/rails  
cd vendor/rails  
ERROR: While executing gem … (ArgumentError)  
install directory “activesupport-1.4.0” not absolute  
rake aborted!  
exit

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

iMac:/Users/askegg/hack root# cd vendor/rails/

iMac:/Users/askegg/hack/vendor/rails root# ls -la  
total 0  
drwxr-xr-x 3 root askegg 102 Jan 20 12:01 .  
drwxr-xr-x 4 root askegg 136 Jan 20 12:01 …  
drwxr-xr-x 2 root askegg 68 Jan 20 12:01 activesupport-1.4.0

iMac:/Users/askegg/hack root# gem list

\*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\*

actionmailer (1.3.1)  
Service layer for easy email delivery and testing.

actionpack (1.13.1)  
Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC.

actionwebservice (1.2.1)  
Web service support for Action Pack.

activerecord (1.15.1)  
Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM.

activesupport (1.4.0)  
Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework.

capistrano (1.3.1)  
Capistrano is a framework and utility for executing commands in  
parallel on multiple remote machines, via SSH. The primary goal is  
to simplify and automate the deployment of web applications.

daemons (1.0.4)  
A toolkit to create and control daemons in different ways

fcgi (0.8.7)  
FastCGI library for Ruby.

gem\_plugin (0.2.1)  
A plugin system based only on rubygems that uses dependencies only

mongrel (0.3.13.4)  
A small fast HTTP library and server that runs Rails, Camping, and  
Nitro apps.

needle (1.3.0)  
Needle is a Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control container for  
Ruby. It supports both type-2 (setter) and type-3 (constructor)  
injection. It takes advantage of the dynamic nature of Ruby to  
provide a rich and flexible approach to injecting dependencies.

net-sftp (1.1.0)  
Net::SFTP is a pure-Ruby implementation of the SFTP client  
protocol.

net-ssh (1.0.10)  
Net::SSH is a pure-Ruby implementation of the SSH2 client protocol.

rails (1.2.1)  
Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow layer,  
and ORM.

rake (0.7.1)  
Ruby based make-like utility.

rubygems-update (0.9.1)  
RubyGems Update GEM

sources (0.0.1)  
This package provides download sources for remote gem installation

iMac:/Users/askegg/hack root# ./script/about  
./script/…/config/boot.rb:29:Warning: require\_gem is obsolete. Use  
gem instead.  
About your application’s environment  
Ruby version 1.8.5 (i686-darwin8.8.1)  
RubyGems version 0.9.1  
Rails version 1.2.1  
Active Record version 1.15.1  
Action Pack version 1.13.1  
Action Web Service version 1.2.1  
Action Mailer version 1.3.1  
Active Support version 1.4.0  
Application root /Users/askegg/hack  
Environment development  
Database adapter mysql

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**Author:** ![askegg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/9e8a1a/32.png) [@askegg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/askegg)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-freezing-gems-to-rails-1-2-1/82871/2 "2007-01-22T16:44:38Z")

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I suspect this is the same problem documented here:  
[https://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php](https://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php)?  
func=detail&aid=7980&group\_id=126&atid=575

My comment on 2007-01-20 18:24 contains a possible fix.

-Rob

Rob B. [http://agileconsultingllc.com](http://agileconsultingllc.com)  
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