# Rake rails:freeze:gems failing

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-railsgems-failing/134923>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 16, 2008, 7:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-railsgems-failing/134923 "2008-04-16T07:21:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 7:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-railsgems-failing/134923/1 "2008-04-16T07:21:38Z")

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I’m new to rails so pre-apologies if this is stupid…

I’m trying to deploy my first app. I need to freeze, but when i run  
rake rails:freeze:gems the rake aborts. I also tried  
rails:freeze:edge. No idea what to do now. Any help would be  
appreciated.

$ rake --trace rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel\_1-2-6  
(in /Users/Dan/sites/client-inertia/artfeed)  
rake aborted!  
no such file to load – /Users/Dan/sites/client-inertia/artfeed/  
config/…/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer  
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/  
1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ 1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`require’  
/Users/Dan/sites/client-inertia/artfeed/config/boot.rb:7  
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/  
1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ 1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`require’  
/Users/Dan/sites/client-inertia/artfeed/rakefile:4  
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:2149:in `load' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:2149:in`raw\_load\_rakefile’  
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1897:in  
`load_rakefile' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1948:in`standard\_exception\_handling’  
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1896:in  
`load_rakefile' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1880:in`run’  
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1948:in  
`standard_exception_handling' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1878:in`run’  
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/bin/rake:31  
/usr/bin/rake:19:in `load’  
/usr/bin/rake:19

$ rails --version  
Rails 1.2.6

$ gem --version  
1.0.1

$ ruby --version  
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [universal-darwin9.0]

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**Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-railsgems-failing/134923/2 "2008-04-17T07:01:11Z")

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I had the same problem,  
For what ever reason, you have a directory named “rails” in your  
vendor directory. Mine was empty, but the config\boot.rb looks for it  
and decides whether to do a VendorBoot or a GemBoot based on  
File.exist?("#{RAILS\_ROOT}/vendor/rails")

I deleted the empty rails directory and the empty vendor directory and  
everthing worked  
I think this is bug in Rails, at least it is not roubust.

Part of config\boot.rb

```
def pick_boot
  (vendor_rails? ? VendorBoot : GemBoot).new
end

def vendor_rails?
  File.exist?("#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails")
end

```

do  
rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel\_1-2-3

or  
rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel\_1-2-6 etc

good luck

and no, it wasn’t at all stupid on your part. Rails is a little stupid  
here. Took me an hour to figure it out.

TW Scannell aka RubyFreak

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**Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-railsgems-failing/134923/3 "2008-04-17T14:29:17Z")

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ruby freak… thanks! i ended up just trashing my local copy and re-  
checking it out from svn, and it worked. i imagine this had the same  
effect as your fix (if those directories were created at some point  
after my prior checkout). but thanks because this will be very helpful  
for future reference.

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**Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-railsgems-failing/134923/4 "2008-04-17T17:18:37Z")

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I made a typo  
I said"  
I deleted the empty rails directory and the empty VENDOR directory and  
everything worked

what I should have said was  
I deleted the empty rails directory and the empty PLUGINS directory in  
the vendor directory and  
everything worked.

Hope this helps someone.