# Rake environment hosed - error on Rakefile

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-environment-hosed-error-on-rakefile/105916>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 4, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-environment-hosed-error-on-rakefile/105916 "2007-06-04T17:21:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![clemrock](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clemrock](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/clemrock)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-environment-hosed-error-on-rakefile/105916/1 "2007-06-04T17:21:38Z")

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Hello,

Suddenly, my dev environment is completely destroyed. I have  
multiple projects and whenever I try to run any rake tasks I get an  
error on line 11 of my Rakefile.

Here’s the error:

user$ rake  
(in /Users/user/near-time/some\_site.net-trunk)  
rake aborted!  
can’t convert nil into String

and here’s the code in Rakefile:

```auto
require(File.join(File.dirname( __FILE__ ), 'config', 'boot'))

# Define our default task before Rails can
desc "Run all the tests on a fresh test database"
task :default => ['db:migrate', :clone_structure_to_test, 'test:all']

require 'rake'
require 'rake/testtask'
require 'rake/rdoctask'
```

require ‘tasks/rails’