I am writing a rake task for my rails app to parse data from an XML and
keep getting the error:
rake aborted!
Text is not a module
here are the contents of my lib/tasks/xml_parse.rake
#--------------------------------
require ‘rexml/document’
include REXML
namespace :xml do
task :parse => :environment do
puts “hello”
#commented out everything else until it works
#…
end
end
#----------------------------------
The output looks like this…
#----------------------------------
imac:HAA-TMS chris$ rake xml:parse --trace
(in /Users/chris/Projects/HAA-TMS)
hello1
** Invoke xml:parse (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
rake aborted!
Text is not a module
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-2.3.5/lib/action_mailer.rb:52
/opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
gem_original_require' /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:inrequire’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in
require' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:innew_constants_in’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in
require' /Users/chris/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb:268:inrequire_frameworks’
/Users/chris/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb:268:in
each' /Users/chris/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb:268:inrequire_frameworks’
/Users/chris/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb:134:in
process' /Users/chris/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb:113:insend’
/Users/chris/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb:113:in
run' /Users/chris/Projects/HAA-TMS/config/environment.rb:5 /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:ingem_original_require’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
require' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:inrequire’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:in
new_constants_in' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:inrequire’
/Users/chris/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/tasks/misc.rake:4
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:in call' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:inexecute’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:in each' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:inexecute’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:597:in
invoke_with_call_chain' /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:insynchronize’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:590:in
invoke_with_call_chain' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:607:ininvoke_prerequisites’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:604:in each' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:604:ininvoke_prerequisites’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:596:in
invoke_with_call_chain' /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:insynchronize’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:590:in
invoke_with_call_chain' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:583:ininvoke’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2051:in
invoke_task' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:intop_level’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in each' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:intop_level’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:in
standard_exception_handling' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2023:intop_level’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2001:in run' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:instandard_exception_handling’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:1998:in run' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/bin/rake:31 /opt/local/bin/rake:19:inload’
/opt/local/bin/rake:19
#----------------------------------
The only line trace is spitting out from my code is
/Users/chris/Projects/HAA-TMS/config/environment.rb:5
…and that line is the…
Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
The rake task will run fine if I remove the reference “=> :environment”
from the task declaration but I need that so I can write the XML data to
a model in my application.
Also I’m using ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i686-darwin10] on
snow leopard with rubygems 1.3.5 just in case that helps
If you’ve read this far, I really appreciate it.
Many thanks in advance,
Chris