# Rake aborted!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-aborted/181708>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 16, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-aborted/181708 "2010-01-16T13:53:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aashishkiran)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-aborted/181708/1 "2010-01-16T13:53:02Z")

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---------rakefile-------------

require ‘csv’  
require ‘rake’  
task :purchaseAlcohol do  
puts “Purchased Vodka”  
end

task :mixDrink do  
puts “Mixed Fuzzy Navel”  
end

task :getSmashed do  
puts “Dood, everthing’s blurry, can I halff noth’r drinnnk?”  
end  
-----------end--------------------

when I run rake task using any of the commands

rake purchaseAlcohol  
rake mixDrink  
rake getSmashed

i am getting error as  
rake aborted! Don’t know how to build task ‘taskname’  
Can anyone please tell how to get rid of it.

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**Author:** ![aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aashishkiran)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-aborted/181708/2 "2010-01-16T16:11:42Z")

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Where are you keeping this file?

If you put it in somewhere like:

lib/tasks

It should work.

Try to add:

desc “some text”

Before each task and then you can look for it when you type:

rake -T

2010/1/16 Aashish K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aashishkiran)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-aborted/181708/3 "2010-01-16T17:17:33Z")

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Bruno Grasselli wrote:

> Where are you keeping this file?
> 
> If you put it in somewhere like:
> 
> lib/tasks
> 
> It should work.
> 
> Try to add:
> 
> desc “some text”
> 
> Before each task and then you can look for it when you type:
> 
> rake -T
> 
> 2010/1/16 Aashish K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

when i execute  
D:\NetBeansProjects\RubyCode\lib\tasks\>rake purchaseAlcohol  
(in D:/NetBeansProjects/RubyCode)  
rake aborted!

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

it is searching in project folder, it is not searching in  
D:/NetBeansProjects/RubyCode/lib/tasks

can you help solving this

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**Author:** ![aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aashishkiran)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-aborted/181708/4 "2010-01-16T19:48:30Z")

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Bruno Grasselli wrote:

> Try to execute “rake purchaseAlcohol” from here:
> 
> D:/NetBeansProjects/RubyCode
> 
> 2010/1/16 Aashish K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

same error as before

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**Author:** ![aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@aashishkiran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aashishkiran)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-aborted/181708/5 "2010-01-16T18:05:49Z")

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Try to execute “rake purchaseAlcohol” from here:

D:/NetBeansProjects/RubyCode

2010/1/16 Aashish K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)