[ccnet-user] Incomprehensible error message returned from rake task.

[Mark Pawelek]

Good day folks,

I have just set up CC for the first time. It is "sort of" working, but
there are a number of problems. Here is issue #1

CC here does little because most of the work is being done by rake/
albacore/msbuild/nunit via the rake build script.

1) CC gets an Incomprehensible error message from rake. See Appendix
1.

I'm getting this status message back:

   <message level="Error">mkdir &#x2d;p D:/Builds/MyProjects/Publish</
message>

corresponding to this rake line:

   mkdir_p PUBLISH_DIR

The build succeeds. I tested whether this error actually happens by
placing a test.txt inside D:\Builds\MyProjects\Publish.  After the
build the test.txt was missing, which indicates that the Remove
Directory (RD) command and subsequent make directory commands worked.

Following on from that login, I checked whether the published websites
has been put inside D:\Builds\MyProjects\Publish.  Yes they had. So if
the remove directory and make directory commands worked, why am I
getting an error message? [PS: See the rake build script: Appendix 2]

The line
        mkdir_p PUBLISH_DIR
is being correctly executed and is valid ruby/rake, so why the error?

Furthermore, the character: &#x2d; represents a hyphen, not an
underscore. So, please, can anyone explain this?

PS 2: I guess this was the message notified to CC.NET by the rake
script.

Appendix 1
----------

[MyProjects:INFO] Task error:
<buildresults>
  <message level="Error">rd D:\Builds\MyProjects\Publish /S/Q</
message>
  <message level="Error">mkdir &#x2d;p D:/Builds/MyProjects/Publish</
message>
  <message level="Error">mkdir &#x2d;p D:/Builds/MyProjects/Publish/
Admin/</message>
  <message level="Error">mkdir &#x2d;p D:/Builds/MyProjects/Publish/
Client/</message>
  <message level="Error">svn update D:/Builds/MyProjects/Source</
message>
</buildresults>

[MyProjects:INFO] Merging file 'D:\Builds\MyProjects\Reports\Test-
Result.xml'
[MyProjects:INFO] Integration complete: Success - 20/02/2012 10:00:35

Appendix 2
----------
DRIVE      = ENV["drive"]  || 'D'

Websites = [ :Admin, :Client ]
PROJECT = 'MyProjects'
ROOT = "#{DRIVE}:/Builds"
PROJECT_DIR = "#{ROOT}/#{PROJECT}"
PUBLISH_DIR = "#{PROJECT_DIR}/Publish"

def removeDirectory dir
  if Dir.exists? dir
    dir2 = dir.gsub("/", "\\" )

    sh "rd #{dir2} /S/Q"   # Remove it, forcing it when not-empty
  end
end

desc 'Remove existing directories, build new ones'
task :clean do
  removeDirectory PUBLISH_DIR
  mkdir_p PUBLISH_DIR
  Websites.each { |site| mkdir_p "#{PUBLISH_DIR}/#{site}/" }
end

Thank you folks

That was #1, now for more serious stuff.