# Rake error - please help

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-error-please-help/122228>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 5, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-error-please-help/122228 "2007-12-05T19:04:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-error-please-help/122228/1 "2007-12-05T19:04:04Z")

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Hi-

I’m suddenly getting this rake error where as before I wasn’t. And  
nothing’s been changed. As you can see it says something about  
“load\_missing\_constant”. Is my development environment broken? Can  
someone please tell me what this error means?:

bbgun@echobase:~/RailsProjects/rails\_space$ rake test:functionals  
(in /home/bbgun/RailsProjects/rails\_space)  
/usr/local/bin/ruby -Ilib:test  
“/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake/rake\_test\_loader.rb”  
“test/functional/user\_controller\_test.rb”  
“test/functional/community\_controller\_test.rb”  
“test/functional/faq\_controller\_test.rb”  
“test/functional/spec\_controller\_test.rb”  
“test/functional/profile\_controller\_test.rb”  
“test/functional/site\_controller\_test.rb”  
/home/bbgun/RailsProjects/rails\_space/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/…/…/activesupport/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:266:in  
`load_missing_constant': uninitialized constant ApplicationController (NameError) from /home/bbgun/RailsProjects/rails_space/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:452:in`const\_missing’  
from  
/home/bbgun/RailsProjects/rails\_space/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/…/…/activesupport/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:464:in  
`const_missing' from /home/bbgun/RailsProjects/rails_space/config/../app/controllers/application.rb:3 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`gem\_original\_require’  
from  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in  
`require' from /home/bbgun/RailsProjects/rails_space/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in`require’  
from  
/home/bbgun/RailsProjects/rails\_space/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/…/…/activesupport/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:342:in  
`new_constants_in' from /home/bbgun/RailsProjects/rails_space/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in`require’  
… 12 levels…  
from  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake/rake\_test\_loader.rb:5:in  
`load' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb:5 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb:5:in`each’  
from  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake/rake\_test\_loader.rb:5  
rake aborted!  
Command failed with status (1): [/usr/local/bin/ruby -Ilib:test  
"/usr/local…]

(See full trace by running task with --trace)  
bbgun@echobase:~/RailsProjects/rails\_space$

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**Author:** ![brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 7:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-error-please-help/122228/2 "2007-12-06T07:07:08Z")

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Hi,

On Dec 5, 2007 1:04 PM, Brian B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> Hi-
> 
> I’m suddenly getting this rake error where as before I wasn’t. And  
> nothing’s been changed. As you can see it says something about  
> “load\_missing\_constant”. Is my development environment broken? Can  
> someone please tell me what this error means?:

It looks like your ApplicationController class might be missing. This  
file  
should be located in RAILS\_ROOT/app/controller/application.rb

Does this file exist? Something in that file may point you in the right  
direction.

> “test/functional/profile\_controller\_test.rb”
> 
> ## `require’ /home/bbgun/RailsProjects/rails\_space/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/…/…/activesupport/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:495:in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3 bbgun@echobase:~/RailsProjects/rails\_space$
> 
> Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/).
> 
> > 
> 
> HTH,  
> Michael G.