Matt Jones wrote: > Troels - I'd recommend that you look for the same kind of thing in > your Rakefiles.
Indeed - I had a rake task in `lib/tasks/` that included `config/environment.rb`. Thanks for your help. Ari Maniatis wrote: > * rake gems:install should not try to load all the rake tasks since it > has a very specific job to do and should not be sidetracked by loading > everything it comes across on the class path That's not possible. Rake works by finding files with the name *.task and then loading them. If these files try to invoke gems at load-time, there is nothing rake can do. It's a fundamentally design flaw/limitation of rake. > * better error reporting which detects this condition and reports > where the problem might lie Would definitely be nice with a trace that points to the error. An solution could also be to move the `config.gem` lines from `config/environment.rb` into a separate file (Say - `config/gemconf.rb`), and then include it in the config file. This would make it possible to write a script in `script/`, that loads this config file and invokes gem for each dependency. Since it doesn't depend on rake, it wouldn't have the load-time-dependencies problem. The reason I'm suggesting this is that some times you really need load-time dependencies in your rake tasks; Namely if your task extends some generic task, present in a gem. For example, installing the `rails_rcov` plugin [1] will cause an error if you don't have the `rcov` gem installed, since the task depends on the file `rcov/rcovtask`. Having a script that didn't use rake, would solve this problem entirely. Might the rails developers be interested in a patch for this? [1] http://svn.codahale.com/rails_rcov -- troels -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
