Background:
I get errors whenever I run rake in an older project. (uninitialized constant Rake::DSL).
The rails project in question is an old project that was started with Rails 2.1 (I think), and since then I've updated the OS on my laptop a couple of times, and made updates along the way to make it run.
Right now, the rails app works fine, provided I have RAILS_GEM_VERSION set to 2.3.5. I'm not sure if the app was completely updated to Rails 2.3.5.
There is no Gemfile in my older project.
If I create a brand-new rails project (and unset RAILS_GEM_VERSION), rake runs fine.
My question: To troubleshoot, I'd like to try newer versions of rake. I'd like to know how to force one specific version to be used, since it appears I have multiple versions installed.
Info on my environment:
$ gem list rake
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
rake (0.9.2.2, 0.9.2, 0.8.7, 0.8.3)
$ rake --version
rake, version 0.8.7
So it looks like it's picking up the 0.8.7 version.
All the help files online seem to tell me to specify the rake version in the Gemfile, but there isn't one in this project. (Maybe it predates gemfiles?)
If I unset the RAILS_GEM_ENVIRONMENT variable altogether, and try to run rake, I get:
rake aborted!
can't activate rails (= 2.3.5, runtime) for [], already activated rails-3.2.8 for []
None of the environment config files in my older project set that variable either.
This may be of help. Have you tried the underscore solution?
Example:
rake _0.9.2_
you can run rake specific version by using this
bundle exec rake ...
more detail see this - bundle exec, rake
You can uninstall the current version of rake and install another desired version using commands similar to the following:
gem uninstall rake 12.3.1
gem install rake 10.5.0
(Note: you might need to run as sudo for permissions)
I had a problem where I received the following error while trying to install rake 10.5.0:
Could not find a valid gem '0.8.7' (>= 0) in any repository
I resolved this problem by adding the following line to my Gemfile:
gem 'rake', ' <11.0'
After editing Gemfile I was able to successfully downgrade rake by updating my gems:
bundle update
Related
I'm attempting (without much success) to run rake db:migrate on a rails project, however it returns:
Could not find rake-10.4.2 in any of the sources
Run bundle install to install missing gems.
I ran bundle install and worked fine - installed rake 10.4.2, however when I ran: rake --version (for some reason you can't do rake -v ???) and it shows: rake, version 0.9.6
I ran bundle update rake and returned my list of gems and then: Your bundle is updated!
Why isn't rake updating? Is there something I'm doing wrong (I'm new to rails btw - so this is probably really simple)
Any help is really appreciated
TL; DR: gem install rake -v '10.4.2'
So, I had this problem myself. I wanted to know why rails s would work yesterday and not today.
First I checked if I was in the correct directory, I was.
Then I re-ran bundle install to make sure rake was getting installed. It was, and I was able to see it in my Gemfile.lock
So I figured my gemset might be corrupt (I use RVM). rvm gemset empty then bundle install
Still, whenever I ran rails s, I got this error. bin/rails s worked, as well as bundle exec rails s. But I don't want a prefix, I want rails to work (It works in other rails projects)
Eventually I tried gem install rake and it worked! I recommend adding -v '10.4.2' to the command so that you get the correct rake version. Now when I which rake, I get the gemset for my project: "/Users/cm022291/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1#project_gemset/bin/rake"
and when I run rails s the server starts successfully.
Try typing
bundle exec rake db:migrate
That will ensure that the Rake being invoked is the one you've bundled.
I am trying to freeze my Rails gem version as, day by day, some or the other gem version gets updated and sometimes I need to update the code.
I tried rake rails:freeze:gems but this gave me error:
rake aborted!
Don't know how to build task 'rails:freeze:gems'
This locks and then caches the gems into ./vendor/cache.
$ bundle package
Refer this link
rake rails:freeze:gems is an old Rails 2 way of doing it. I think you want to use Bundler's bundle install vendor/gems
"How do I freeze gems into a Rails 3 application?" seem to answer it better.
I thought I understood how Bundler works with gems, but after something that recently happened, I am not sure I have it right.
I am developing an Rails application. To start off (and just so I would get familiar with the Rails environment which I haven't worked in before), I did not use an IDE. But, because I'm missing out on some of the advantages of an IDE, I just started using RubyMine. As part of the RubyMine setup, it asked to update all my gems for my existing project.
After that, I could not run "rake [anything]". Every time I did, I received an error of:
You have already activated rake 0.9.3.beta.1, but your Gemfile
requires rake 0.9.2.2. Using bundle exec may solve this.
I was okay updating to the next version of rake - that wasn't a problem - but I don't understand what happened in the first place. What happened that I "activated" a newer version of rake. Ultimately, I ended up solving the problem by putting
gem 'rake', '0.9.3.beta.1'
in my Gemfile and running
bundle update rake
But, I'm still not sure what happened here. If I was using 9.2.2 before, why did it all of a sudden blow up like that and how can I prevent that in the future?
If you are using Rubymine, you should configure it to run rake tasks with bundle exec.
Go to:
Run -> Edit Configurations -> Defaults -> Rake -> Bundler tab and check "Run the script in context of the bundle (bundle exec)"
Delete all tasks already created and the default will apply the next time you create them again. You can also configure individually each task created.
You should really consider installing and using RVM or Rbenv to manage your ruby versions and gemsets. If you go the Rbenv way, the rbenv-gemset plugin can be used to manage gemsets similar to how RVM natively does.
You have already activated rake 0.9.3.beta.1, but your Gemfile requires rake 0.9.2.2. Using bundle exec may solve this.
At some point between your last bundle execution and installing/configuring/running RubyMine you must have installed rake 0.9.3.beta.1. Because you're not managing your gems through gemsets like RVM or Rbenv will do for you, the default version of Rake became 0.9.3.beta.1 instead of the version installed by bundler, 0.9.2.2.
The above error suggests your Gemfile had something like
gem 'rake', '0.9.2.2'
which does not allow the version of rake being used to be anything but 0.9.2.2.
If you do in fact have 0.9.2.2 on your system in addition to the 0.9.3.beta.1 and your Gemfile is configured for 0.9.2.2, instead of running
rake some:task
you can run
bundle exec rake some:task
and bundler will run some:task through the 0.9.2.2 version of rake. Running tasks related to gems found in a Gemfile through bundleer with bundle exec ... is considered good practice regardless of using RVM or Rbenv.
You can read about bundle exec here.
Alright, well I'm trying to fix this problem again. I followed this fix to eliminate the error by reverting to version 0.8.7, which worked the first time. However, now I'm trying to use cucumber and I'm getting it all again.
I tried it again by running gem uninstall rake -v=0.9.2.2 which lists all the gem dependencies. Successfully uninstalled. Then I ran bundle update rake. Using rake (0.8.7). Cool. rake -V. rake, version 0.9.2.2. wat. Same problems return. What am I missing? I thought 9.2 was supposed to fix this bug anyway?
I think this fix is obsolete. Rake 0.9.0 got fixed, and 0.9.2.2 is certainly working. You want to uninstall and completely eradicate rake 0.8.x. Try something like:
gem list -d rake
The -d switch will show the installation directories. If you're using RVM, there may be multiple search paths that get hit, running rvm info will tell you the search path and preference ordering. Depending on the system you're on, your OS may also ship with an old rake version. Try uninstalling everything other than the local gemset (if using RVM) or the latest rake (if not using RVM).
The problem with the rake gem uninstall sounds like you have Rake in your default gemset, check ~/.rvm/gemsets/global.gems It will no doubt have rake in it
My question has already been asked here, but I am trying to understand the reasons behind it as opposed to how to work around it.
The error I got was;
You have already activated rspec-core 2.7.1, but your Gemfile requires rspec-core 2.6.4. Using bundle exec may solve this. (Gem::LoadError)
Now I have been given various solutions like using "mpapis-bundler", or to create a shorthand for "bundle exec", but I was under the impression that that was what
$bundle install --binstubs
was for.
More specifically, since I have no version numbers stated in my gemfile for rspec-rails, why do I have this incompatibility? My error also occurred when I tried
$rake db:migrate
telling me that
You have already activated rake 0.9.2.2, but your Gemfile requires rake 0.9.2. Consider using bundle exec.
Any explanations would be appreciated.
EDIT:
All my gems for my app are in a gemset, and I have updated my gems again. Should an update not make sure that related gems are compatible?
This happens when you install more recent gems in your system than the one in your Rails app.
Bundler simply tells ou that you must stick with those your Gemfile states.
This is the purpose of running:
bundle exec rake db:migrate
-> running the very same rake version your Gemfile provides.
Concerning updating gems from gemfile, simply do:
bundle update
The easiest way to avoid this kind of boring stuff is to isolate your gems by creating gemsets. I use RVM for this purpose.
Regarding the rake version 0.9.2.2, either ways to do is create a new gemset for the project and maintain the gem version matching your Gemfile.
For instance if there are two rake gem containing versions 0.9.2 and 0.9.2.2, specifying rake version '0.9.2' though installs, but does not run any tasks apart from blowing error saying
'You have already activated rake 0.9.2.2, but your Gemfile requires rake 0.9.2. Using bundle exec may solve this.'
I expect bundle install to lock the gem version in Gemfile.lock and pick the rake 0.9.2, but it looks in the gemset, where by default rake 0.9.2.2 is enabled.
Just reminding the purpose of bundle install from agile web development with rails book,
'bundle install will use the Gemfile.lock as a starting point, and install only the
versions of the various gems as specified in this file. For this reason, it is
important that this file gets checked into your version control system, as this
will ensure that your colleagues and deployment targets will all be using the
exact same configuration.'
but it doesn't work that way,
The better is to uninstall rake 0.9.2.2 and use rake 0.9.2 or, use bundle update rake, that updates the rake version in Gemfile.lock to 0.9.2.2
As #apneadiving said, running "$bundle install" updates all your bunldes. However, after running "$bundle install --binstubs" I still got errors for incompatible gems whenever I omitted the "bundle exec" part.
Subsequently I needed to update my Gemfile as I added another gem, and now they work. I'm assuming the incompatibilities were solved by the gem creators.