# Rake gems:freeze GEM=pdf-writer not working on MAC **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 3, 2010, 9:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-gems-freeze-gem-pdf-writer-not-working-on-mac/189565 "2010-06-03T09:47:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gandhi-tush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/5daacb/32.png) [@gandhi-tush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gandhi-tush)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 9:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-gems-freeze-gem-pdf-writer-not-working-on-mac/189565/1 "2010-06-03T09:47:16Z")
Hi, I am using MAC 10.6 OS. I want to freeze the my application gems so that it will nor required to install again when I go to production. For freezing of gems I am going through the tutorial “[http://gemsonrails.rubyforge.org/](http://gemsonrails.rubyforge.org/)” But whenever I am doing “rake gems:freeze GEM=pdf-writer” it is giving me following error:- DEPRECATION WARNING: Rake tasks in vendor/plugins/gemsonrails/tasks, vendor/plugins/gemsonrails/tasks, vendor/plugins/gemsonrails/tasks, and vendor/plugins/gemsonrails/tasks are deprecated. Use lib/tasks instead. (called from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/tasks/rails.rb:10) rake aborted! wrong number of arguments (2 for 1) (See full trace by running task with --trace) But the same command work on windows. Can anyone help me out for this. Thanks, Tushar ---
**Author:** ![gandhi-tush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/5daacb/32.png) [@gandhi-tush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gandhi-tush)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-gems-freeze-gem-pdf-writer-not-working-on-mac/189565/2 "2010-06-04T03:23:23Z")
On Jun 3, 3:47 am, Tushar G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > DEPRECATION WARNING: Rake tasks in vendor/plugins/gemsonrails/tasks, > Can anyone help me out for this. > Try posting the complete trace (as suggested by rake) as it will > contain a lot more information. You might also want to look into using > either the Rails 2 gem system (config.gem and ‘rake gems:unpack’) or > Bundler (the new solution preferred by Rails 3). –Matt J. ---
**Author:** ![gandhi-tush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/5daacb/32.png) [@gandhi-tush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gandhi-tush)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 6:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-gems-freeze-gem-pdf-writer-not-working-on-mac/189565/3 "2010-06-04T06:39:52Z")
Hi, Here is the complete trace of error:- Can anyone help me out what is wrong with my configuration? administrators-macbook:browsercms\_demo Administrator$ rake gems:freeze GEM=pdf-writer --trace (in /railsproject/bcms/browsercms\_demo) DEPRECATION WARNING: Rake tasks in vendor/plugins/gemsonrails/tasks, vendor/plugins/gemsonrails/tasks, vendor/plugins/gemsonrails/tasks, and vendor/plugins/gemsonrails/tasks are deprecated. Use lib/tasks instead. (called from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/tasks/rails.rb:10) \*\* Invoke gems:freeze (first\_time) \*\* Execute gems:freeze rake aborted! wrong number of arguments (2 for 1) /railsproject/bcms/browsercms\_demo/vendor/plugins/gemsonrails/tasks/gems\_freeze.rake:41:in `get_path' /railsproject/bcms/browsercms_demo/vendor/plugins/gemsonrails/tasks/gems_freeze.rake:41 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:in`call’ /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:in `execute' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:in`each’ /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:in `execute' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:597:in`invoke\_with\_call\_chain’ /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:590:in`invoke\_with\_call\_chain’ /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:583:in `invoke' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2051:in`invoke\_task’ /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `top_level' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in`each’ /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `top_level' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:in`standard\_exception\_handling’ /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2023:in `top_level' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2001:in`run’ /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:in `standard_exception_handling' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:1998:in`run’ /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/bin/rake:31 /usr/bin/rake:19:in `load’ /usr/bin/rake:19 Thanks, Tushar ---
**Author:** ![gandhi-tush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/5daacb/32.png) [@gandhi-tush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gandhi-tush)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 5:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-gems-freeze-gem-pdf-writer-not-working-on-mac/189565/4 "2010-06-05T05:22:16Z")
It looks like Gem::Commands::UnpackCommand#get\_path changed it’s signature (from 2 args to 1) fairly recently - and much more recently than gemsonrails was last updated (July 2008 according to Github). You’ll definitely want to switch to a different mechanism for vendoring gems. –Matt J. ---
**Author:** ![gandhi-tush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/5daacb/32.png) [@gandhi-tush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gandhi-tush)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 7:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-gems-freeze-gem-pdf-writer-not-working-on-mac/189565/5 "2010-06-07T07:08:43Z")
Hi, If that is the probelm then the command should also not work on windows. But it is working on windows. What is the reason? Thanks Tushar Matt J. wrote: > It looks like Gem::Commands::UnpackCommand#get\_path changed it’s > signature (from 2 args to 1) fairly recently - and much more recently > than gemsonrails was last updated (July 2008 according to Github). > > You’ll definitely want to switch to a different mechanism for > vendoring gems. > > –Matt J. ---
**Author:** ![gandhi-tush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/5daacb/32.png) [@gandhi-tush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gandhi-tush)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-gems-freeze-gem-pdf-writer-not-working-on-mac/189565/6 "2010-06-07T13:53:55Z")
Hi, I just done the gem list. My gem list shows I have “rubygems-update(1.3.7)”. How can I install rubygems version of 1.3.6? Thanks, Tushar ---
**Author:** ![gandhi-tush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/5daacb/32.png) [@gandhi-tush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gandhi-tush)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-gems-freeze-gem-pdf-writer-not-working-on-mac/189565/7 "2010-06-07T13:31:52Z")
On Jun 7, 1:08 am, Tushar G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi, > If that is the probelm then the command should also not work on windows. > But it is working on windows. What is the reason? I suspect that you’ve got different versions of Rubygems on the two machines. 1.3.6 has the 2-arg version: [http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/svn/tags/REL\_1\_3\_6/lib/rubygems/commands/unpack\_command.rb](http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/svn/tags/REL_1_3_6/lib/rubygems/commands/unpack_command.rb) While 1.3.7 has the 1-arg version: [http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/svn/tags/REL\_1\_3\_7/lib/rubygems/commands/unpack\_command.rb](http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/svn/tags/REL_1_3_7/lib/rubygems/commands/unpack_command.rb) –Matt J. ---
**Author:** ![gandhi-tush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/5daacb/32.png) [@gandhi-tush](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gandhi-tush)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-gems-freeze-gem-pdf-writer-not-working-on-mac/189565/8 "2010-06-07T15:33:01Z")
Hi, I have installed rubygems-update 1.3.6. Still the issue has not resolved. Any other way. Thanks, Tushar