# Rake not finding lib/tasks folder?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-not-finding-lib-tasks-folder/93860>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 12, 2006, 10:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-not-finding-lib-tasks-folder/93860 "2006-04-12T10:51:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeff)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 10:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-not-finding-lib-tasks-folder/93860/1 "2006-04-12T10:51:55Z")

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Hi all,

I’m attempting to set up a new Rails app using Typo. I’ve downloaded  
the Typo 2.6.0 edition which includes Rails 1.0 and it works fine. I’ve  
set up version control with SVN and checked out a new working copy.  
I’ve run Capistrano -A on the application and it’s set up my deploy.rb  
and lib/tasks/capistrano.rake.

Rake doesn’t seem to be looking in the lib/tasks folder for rakefiles,  
though.

I’m running “rake remote:setup”, which is defined as usual in  
lib/tasks/capistrano.rake, but Rake tells me it doesn’t know how to  
build the task.

I also have a rake file called “fresh\_start.rake” with a simple “rake  
start” task which runs script/server for development. Rake is similarly  
unable to locate and build this task when I run “rake start”.

I’m running these commands from the root directory of my application,  
and it’s a working process I’ve become familiar with on my other  
applications. It’s just not working here.

Any ideas on why Rake wouldn’t be looking in lib/tasks, or how I can get  
it to start doing so?

Thanks,  
Jeff C.man

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**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-not-finding-lib-tasks-folder/93860/2 "2006-04-12T22:22:47Z")

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Jeff,

Have you got Rake 0.7.0 installed? If you’ve got an older version,  
that’s the problem.

- Jamis

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**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-not-finding-lib-tasks-folder/93860/3 "2006-04-12T22:39:22Z")

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Jamis B. wrote:

> Jeff,
> 
> Have you got Rake 0.7.0 installed? If you’ve got an older version,  
> that’s the problem.
> 
> - Jamis

I have Rake 0.7.1. I’m not sure exactly what the problem was as I’m not  
clear on how Rake determines its load paths for where it will look for  
rakefiles.

However I did manage to work around the issue by adding the following to  
the Rakefile which came with the Typo installation with Rails 1.0 that I  
downloaded:

require(File.join(File.dirname( **FILE** ), ‘config’, ‘boot’))

Did config/boot.rb not exist in Rails 1.0? I also had to add that to my  
config directory. I’m hoping I haven’t broken anything inadvertently  
but it does seem to work now, and Rake and Capistrano are working  
smoothly.

Thanks!

Jeff C.man