# REXML, rake aborted! Text is not a module **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 21, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rexml-rake-aborted-text-is-not-a-module/188960 "2010-05-21T04:01:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rexml-rake-aborted-text-is-not-a-module/188960/1 "2010-05-21T04:01:57Z")
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:in`require’ /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:in`new\_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:in`require\_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:in`require\_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:in`send’ /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:in`gem\_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:in`require’ /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:in`require’ /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:in`execute’ /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:in`execute’ /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:in`synchronize’ /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:in`invoke\_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:in`invoke\_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:in`synchronize’ /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:in`invoke’ /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:in`top\_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:in`top\_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:in`top\_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:in`standard\_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:in`load’ /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 ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 10:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rexml-rake-aborted-text-is-not-a-module/188960/2 "2010-05-21T10:43:19Z")
Switched from REXML to nokogiri. Any solution at this point is purely academic…