Rake-0.8.1 seems to be broken in my Rails 2.0.2 installation

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Hi,

I’ve been trying for a week to get my first Rails app developed using
migrations. I failed on the command:
rake db:migrate

My last resort has been to faithfully follow Rails Cookbook’s first
example. I stumbled a few times but finally implemented the
Cookbook’s example up to the “rake db:migrate” command, where I got:

C:\var\www\cookbook>rake db:migrate
K:/_Utilities/ruby186-26_rc2/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/
lib/rake.rb:2242: private method task' called for Rake:Module (NoMethodError) from K:/_Utilities/ruby186-26_rc2/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:ingem_original_require’
from K:/_Utilities/ruby186-26_rc2/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/
rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in require' from K:/_Utilities/ruby186-26_rc2/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ rake-0.8.1/bin/rake:26 from K:/_Utilities/ruby186-26_rc2/ruby/bin/rake:19:inload’
from K:/_Utilities/ruby186-26_rc2/ruby/bin/rake:19

Eventually, it dawned on me to try “rake” with no arguments, with “-
h”, with “-v” and always got the same 6 lines of output.

“gem list -r rake” reported that 0.8.1 is rake’s current version.

I’m running:
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32]
Rails 2.0.2
rake-0.8.1 (apparently: I can’t get “rake -v” to work, of course)
WinXP-Pro/SP2

A gentile push over this hump, even a blunt knock in the head, would
be greatly appreciated. I apologize for the several threads I’ve
started on this topic.

Best wishes,
Richard

2

Have you tried re-installing rake? That first entry in the trace looks
weird to me–my copy of rake.rb only has 2,240 lines in it…

3

Hi Roy,

Thanks for reporting your take on the situation! No, I didn’t try re-
installing because I wanted to wait to see if anyone saw anything
weird about it or could point out how I’m mistaken.

I’ll reinstall and post back.

Best wishes,
Richard

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Hey Roy,

You were a godsend! A faulty Rake installation has been killing me for
days as I grasped at one theory and then another to explain the
anomaly.

So here’s the result of my migration:
C:\var\www\cookbook>rake db:migrate
(in C:/var/www/cookbook)
== 1 BuildDb: migrating

– create_table(:languages, {:force=>true})
-> 0.1570s
== 1 BuildDb: migrated (0.1570s)

I checked out the Development database and, sure 'nuf, the tables
(languages and schema_info) got created.

Thanks for the encouragement. I would have eventually reinstalled
Rake, but I hated just grasping at straws. So your encouragement was
warmly received.

Best wishes,
Richard

5

Hey Roy,

You were a godsend! A faulty Rake installation has been killing me for
days as I grasped at one theory and then another to explain the
anomaly.

So here’s the result of my migration:
C:\var\www\cookbook>rake db:migrate
(in C:/var/www/cookbook)
== 1 BuildDb: migrating

– create_table(:languages, {:force=>true})
-> 0.1570s
== 1 BuildDb: migrated (0.1570s)

I checked out the Development database and, sure 'nuf, the tables
(languages and schema_info) got created.

Thanks for the encouragement. I would have eventually reinstalled
Rake, but I hated just grasping at straws. So your encouragement was
warmly received.

Best wishes,
Richard

On Jun 11, 12:01 am, RichardOnRails