# Problems freezing rails **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 19, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-freezing-rails/149039 "2008-09-19T16:41:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cam295](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@cam295](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cam295)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-freezing-rails/149039/1 "2008-09-19T16:41:19Z")
I’ve got a site at Dreamhost, and am trying to freeze rails, but am getting this error message: [larchmont]$ rake rails:freeze:gems --trace (in /home/.input/cmills/fsilg.dreamhosters.com) rake aborted! Don’t know how to build task ‘rails:freeze:gems’ /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:1930: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:19:in `load’ /usr/bin/rake:19 I created a new test rails app on the same server and had no problem freezing rails. Any ideas out there? ---
**Author:** ![cam295](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@cam295](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cam295)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-freezing-rails/149039/2 "2008-09-19T18:25:35Z")
On Sep 19, 9:41 am, Charley M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1909:in `each’ > /usr/bin/rake:19 > > ## I created a new test rails app on the same server and had no problem freezing rails. Any ideas out there? > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. Are you sure you’re running this from your RAILS\_ROOT directory? Looks like it can’t find the rakefile. Jeff ---
**Author:** ![cam295](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@cam295](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cam295)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-freezing-rails/149039/3 "2008-09-19T19:30:14Z")
Jeff C. wrote: > Are you sure you’re running this from your RAILS\_ROOT directory? > Looks like it can’t find the rakefile. > > Jeff I’m running it in the correct directory, and the rakefile exists as this: * * * # Add your own tasks in files placed in lib/tasks ending in .rake, # for example lib/tasks/switchtower.rake, and they will automatically be available to Rake. require(File.join(File.dirname( **FILE** ), ‘config’, ‘boot’)) require ‘rake’ require ‘rake/testtask’ require ‘rake/rdoctask’ ## require ‘tasks/rails’ Is there a config file that tells rails where the rakefile is? That’s my only other thought - I’m not an expert with ruby or rails, and so am a bit in the dark. ---
**Author:** ![cam295](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@cam295](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cam295)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-freezing-rails/149039/4 "2008-09-21T20:22:28Z")
On 19 Sep 2008, at 15:41, Charley M. wrote: > I’ve got a site at Dreamhost, and am trying to freeze rails, but am > getting this error message: is this app using an older version of rails where the task had a different name ? (rake -T shows tasks) Fred ---
**Author:** ![cam295](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@cam295](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cam295)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-freezing-rails/149039/5 "2008-09-21T22:55:23Z")
On 21 Sep 2008, at 21:32, Charley M. \ wrote: > Frederick C. wrote: > > > On 19 Sep 2008, at 15:41, Charley M. wrote: > > > > is this app using an older version of rails where the task had a > > different name ? (rake -T shows tasks) > > Here is the output: You don’t need my help to read through that list and find the freeze task 🙂 Do just check it’s not already frozen ( does vendor/rails exist?) - those task names look pretty old - possibly before the whole setting your version in environment.rb was added Fred ---
**Author:** ![cam295](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@cam295](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cam295)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-freezing-rails/149039/6 "2008-09-21T22:32:43Z")
Frederick C. wrote: > On 19 Sep 2008, at 15:41, Charley M. wrote: > > is this app using an older version of rails where the task had a > different name ? (rake -T shows tasks) Here is the output: [larchmont]$ rails -v Rails 2.1.0 [larchmont]$ rake -T (in /home/.input/cmills/fsilg.dreamhosters.com) rake add\_new\_scripts # Add new scripts to the application script/ … rake apidoc # Build the apidoc HTML Files rake appdoc # Build the appdoc HTML Files rake clear\_logs # Clears all \*.log files in log/ rake clobber\_apidoc # Remove rdoc products rake clobber\_appdoc # Remove rdoc products rake clobber\_plugindoc # Remove plugin documentation rake clone\_schema\_to\_test # Recreate the test database from the current… rake clone\_structure\_to\_test # Recreate the test databases from the develo… rake create\_sessions\_table # Creates a sessions table for use with CGI::… rake db\_schema\_dump # Create a db/schema.rb file that can be port… rake db\_schema\_import # Import a schema.rb file into the database. rake db\_structure\_dump # Dump the database structure to a SQL file rake default # Run all the tests on a fresh test database rake deploy # Deploy application directories / Push the l… rake drop\_sessions\_table # Drop the sessions table rake freeze\_edge # Lock this application to the Edge Rails (by… rake freeze\_gems # Lock this application to the current gems (… rake load\_fixtures # Load fixtures into the current environment’… rake migrate # Migrate the database according to the migra… rake plugindoc # Generate documation for all installed plugins rake prepare\_test\_database # Prepare the test database and load the schema rake purge\_sessions\_table # Drop and recreate the session table (much f… rake purge\_test\_database # Empty the test database rake reapidoc # Force a rebuild of the RDOC files rake reappdoc # Force a rebuild of the RDOC files rake recent # Run tests for recentprepare\_test\_database rake remote\_exec # Execute a specific action using the release… rake rollback # Rollback to the release before the current … rake show\_deploy\_tasks # Enumerate all available deployment tasks rake stats # Report code statistics (KLOCs, etc) from th… rake test\_functional # Run tests for test\_functionalprepare\_test\_d… rake test\_plugins # Run tests for test\_pluginsenvironment rake test\_units # Run tests for test\_unitsprepare\_test\_database rake unfreeze\_rails # Unlock this application from freeze of gems… rake update\_javascripts # Update your javascripts from your current r…