# Rake on dreamhost

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-on-dreamhost/131427>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 9, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-on-dreamhost/131427 "2008-03-09T23:45:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![shaish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@shaish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shaish)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-on-dreamhost/131427/1 "2008-03-09T23:45:40Z")

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hey, I just started working with dreamhost and cant rake to work  
properly, or at all for that matter.  
every rake I try to result in an error like this one for instance:

$ rake db:migrate  
/usr/bin/rake:17:Warning: require\_gem is obsolete. Use gem instead.  
(in /home/.backing/sdfbapp/sdfbapp.com/fbapps/try)  
rake aborted!  
Could not find RubyGem mocha (\>= 0.5.3)

anyone familiar with this ?  
Thanks a lot.

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**Author:** ![shaish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@shaish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shaish)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 8:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-on-dreamhost/131427/2 "2008-03-10T08:50:41Z")

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gem mocha is missing, its not rake/migrate fault,

for dreamhost make:  
gem install mocha --install-dir=/home/your\_dreamhost\_username/.gems

this is for default, if not helps look here:  
[http://nateclark.com/articles/2006/10/20/dreamhost-your-own-packages-and-gems](http://nateclark.com/articles/2006/10/20/dreamhost-your-own-packages-and-gems)

there are pretty tutorial for how to install gems on dreamhost  
account…

good luck !

p.s.: you always can turn off “require ‘mocha’” from your .rb files,  
(i think its in env.rb)