# Rake aborted! cannot load such file -- /var/www/redmine/Rakefile **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [June 20, 2013, 5:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-aborted-cannot-load-such-file-var-www-redmine-rakefile/245610 "2013-06-20T17:22:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/958977/32.png) [@Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rafa_F)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 5:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-aborted-cannot-load-such-file-var-www-redmine-rakefile/245610/1 "2013-06-20T17:22:04Z")
Dear all, I have installed a redmine server, all is running except when I try to run this task with cron. The rakefile is in the path and it works when i run the command manually in the terminal. redmine:email:imap here are my configuration details Environment: Redmine version 2.3.1.stable Ruby version 1.9.3 (i486-linux) Rails version 3.2.13 Environment production Database adapter Mysql2 Redmine plugins: no plugin installed when I run whereis rake, i have the following output /usr/local/bin/rake and this is my cron task that I set via my user - crontab -e cd /var/www/redmine/ && /usr/local/bin/rake redmine:email:receive\_imap RAILS\_ENV=“production” host=mail._ **.ch username=support2@** _\*\*\*\* password=\*\*\*\* port=143 project=support allow\_override=project unknown\_user=accept --trace I have also tried this one cd /var/www/redmine/ && /usr/local/bin/rake -f redmine:email:receive\_imap RAILS\_ENV=“production” host=mail._**.ch username=support2@**_\*\*\*\* password=\*\*\*\* port=143 project=support allow\_override=project unknown\_user=accept --trace here is the email that sent the cron daemon From: root@redmine (Cron Daemon) To: redmine@redmine Subject: Cron [redmine@REDMINE](mailto:redmine@REDMINE) cd /var/www/redmine/ && /usr/local/bin/rake redmine:email:receive\_imap RAILS\_ENV=“production” host=mail._ **.ch username=support2@**.org password=_\*\* port=143 project=winmedia-support allow\_override=project unknown\_user=accept –trace Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Cron-Env: \ X-Cron-Env: \ X-Cron-Env: \ X-Cron-Env: \ Message-Id: [E1UpFI6-0005pj-9x@REDMINE](mailto:E1UpFI6-0005pj-9x@REDMINE) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:07:02 +0200 rake aborted! cannot load such file – /var/www/redmine/Rakefile /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/rake\_module.rb:25:in `load' /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/rake_module.rb:25:in `load\_rakefile’ /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/application.rb:589:in `raw_load_rakefile' /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/application.rb:89:in `block in load\_rakefile’ /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/application.rb:160:in `standard_exception_handling' /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/application.rb:88:in `load\_rakefile’ /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/application.rb:72:in `block in run' /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/application.rb:160:in `standard\_exception\_handling’ /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/application.rb:70:in `run' /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/bin/rake:33:in `\’ /usr/local/bin/rake:23:in `load' /usr/local/bin/rake:23:in `’ here is my bundle list if it can help \*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\* actionmailer (3.2.13) actionpack (3.2.13) activemodel (3.2.13) activerecord (3.2.13) activeresource (3.2.13) activesupport (3.2.13) arel (3.0.2) builder (3.0.4, 3.0.0) bundler (1.3.5) capybara (2.0.3) childprocess (0.3.9) coderay (1.0.9) daemon\_controller (1.1.4) erubis (2.7.0) ffi (1.9.0) hike (1.2.3) i18n (0.6.1) journey (1.0.4) jquery-rails (2.0.3) json (1.8.0) mail (2.5.4) metaclass (0.0.1) mime-types (1.23) mini\_portile (0.5.0) mocha (0.13.3) multi\_json (1.7.6) mysql2 (0.3.11) net-ldap (0.3.1) nokogiri (1.6.0) passenger (4.0.5) polyglot (0.3.3) rack (1.4.5) rack-cache (1.2) rack-openid (1.3.1) rack-ssl (1.3.3) rack-test (0.6.2) rails (3.2.13) railties (3.2.13) rake (10.0.4) rdoc (4.0.1, 3.12.2) rmagick (2.13.2) ruby-openid (2.1.8) rubyzip (0.9.9) selenium-webdriver (2.33.0) shoulda (3.3.2) shoulda-context (1.0.2) shoulda-matchers (1.4.1) sprockets (2.2.2) thor (0.18.1) tilt (1.4.1) treetop (1.4.14) tzinfo (0.3.37) websocket (1.0.7) xpath (1.0.0) yard (0.8.6.1) do you have any idea or logs that I can check? Thanks for your time and your help I really would like to make it work. ---
**Author:** ![jrme\_r](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@jrme\_r](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jrme_r)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-aborted-cannot-load-such-file-var-www-redmine-rakefile/245610/2 "2014-07-18T14:40:07Z")
Try running these cron with bundle exec