Rake failing to start - ruby

I'm having trouble understanding the following error with Ruby's Rake.
C:\>gem install rake
Successfully installed rake-0.8.7
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for rake-0.8.7...
Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.8.7...
C:\>rake
C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:340:in `bin_path': can't find executable r
ake for rake-0.8.7 (Gem::Exception)
from C:/Ruby192/bin/rake:19:in `<main>'
Running Ruby 1.9.2 for Windows.
Edit: Installing from source yields:
C:\Documents and Settings\XPherior\Desktop\rake-0.8.7\rake-0.8.7>ruby install.rb
<internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require': no such file to load --
ftools (LoadError)
from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
from install.rb:3:in `<main>'

The second error, where you have installed into C:\Documenets And Settings\ is occurring because you cannot install ruby into a folder with a space in the path. It should be installed into c:\Ruby\ c:\Ruby#.#.#\ if you want the version # in the path, or something along those lines.
for the first error: there is a bug in the rubyinstaller.org version of ruby 1.9.2, which is causing this by running "gem install rake".
you can read about the error you're getting, here: http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3677
there are a couple of ways to fix this error:
re-install ruby v1.9.2 and don't run "gem install rake". rake v0.8.7 is built into the ruby v1.9.2 installation, so you don't need to re-install it.
if you do want to manually install it, you can delete the ruby.gempspec file from your ruby installation. this file is located at (rubyinstalldir)\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\specifications
either of these options will fix the problem for you.
i'm not sure which is "better" off-hand... it may be necessary to delete the gemspec file and reinstall rake, to support updates and new versions in the future. i'm not sure, though. we'll find out once rake is updated and we need to install a new version. or, perhaps, the issue will be fixed in the ruby installation by then, and we'll just need to update our ruby install.

I've run into your both errors.
For the first one. Try the solution post at here http://betterlogic.com/roger/2010/11/ruby-1-9-2-rake-woe/.
And for the second error, it's causes by a library update by the ruby 1.9. From the Programming Ruby 1.9, "ftools have been removed (and replaced by fileutils)." I'm not pretty sure but at least that's an explanation.

Related

cannot load such file -- rubygems.rb (LoadError)

I'm new to ruby. I removed ruby 1.9 with sudo apt-get purge ruby and then
I installed ruby 2.3.0 using ruby-install. But I got the following error
<internal:gem_prelude>:4:in `require': cannot load such file -- rubygems.rb (LoadError)
from <internal:gem_prelude>:4:in `<internal:gem_prelude>
when running rspec my_script.rb.
Still can't fix this after googling! Anyone can help me out?
It seems that the rspec binary was only installed for your previous ruby version. Therefore it is found, but not guaranteed to work.
I'd recommend to use something like rvm (https://rvm.io/) or rbenv (https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv). Both of them can easily handle different ruby versions while maintaining dependencies (e.g. different load paths, different gem versions, etc.). I'd even use rvm if there is only one single ruby version installed on a system.

toy/doc undefined method 'available?'

I'm attempting to build local Ruby documentation as suggested here:
https://github.com/toy/doc
However when I use the default Rakefile I get the following:
[Documentation]$ rake build
configuring and updating: 100.0%
rake aborted!
undefined method `available?' for Gem:Module
/Users/snowcrash/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195/gems/sdoc-0.2.20/lib/sdoc/json_backend.rb:9:in `<top (required)>'
Any suggestions?
I don't know much about ruby (and even less about the gem ecosystem built up around it), but I believe a possible workaround for this issue is to find what gems the project requires and manually install them. In the case of this particular project, it looks like you need the gem "fspath".
At the project root, type
gem install fspath
and try re-running rake.
I honestly don't know the actual root cause of the issue, other than that presumably, your version of the 'gem' program is probably > v2, while some other program (rake?) expects it to be older and still support the "available?" method.
If installing "fspath" doesn't fix the issue, you could try downgrading your version of gem by doing
gem install -v [some version of gem older than v2]
Check gem install --help for more info on this.
This is just for future visitor who has the same issue.
As ekremkaraca said, you can just solve this by downgrading rubygems.
rvm install --force rubygems 1.4.2

How do i install the latest version of Ruby on Mac?

After installing Ruby 2.0, I try and run my .rb file, and get this error:
/Users/Andrew/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:51:in `require': cannot load such file -- ruby-box (LoadError)
from /Users/Andrew/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:51:in `require'
from box.rb:2:in `<main>'
My code:
require "rubygems"
require "ruby-box"
Have you installed ruby-box for your new Ruby? Try running this, and trying again:
gem install ruby-box
Also note that require "rubygems" is useless and redundant (the interpreter deals with all this for you) in Ruby 1.9 and onwards.
I recommend using bundler to manage your dependencies even if it is a small project. It provides install and update tools to help mitigate these exact problems. For example, you could update all your dependencies with one command:
bundle update
The time invested learning bundler will quickly pay for itself :D

Trouble with sqlite3 ruby 2.0 on Windows

I'm a newbie to programming, with ruby/rails successfully installed on my (mac) home computer. I'm trying to get ruby 2.0.0p195 (and Rails) set up on Windows at work (Windows 7, 32bit) and I'm failing on the sqlite3 installation. I've been through most of the solutions/suggestions I can find on the web, but just can't get it to work - the frustrating thing is that it tells me it's installed, but it doesn't work:
- I've tried the knapsack installation http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/4413168
- If I try to install --with-opt-dir=c:/sqlite3 (or any of the many variations suggested) it gives a native extension error.
- I've put the .dll file in Ruby/bin, which is also in my PATH
- I have the devkit installed
The 'gem install sqlite3' command is successful, and if I do 'gem list', sqlite3 v1.3.7 x86-mingw32 appears in the list, but if I 'require sqlite3' in IRB I get:
LoadError: cannot load such file -- sqlite3/sqlite3_native
And the mkmf log says:
find_header: checking for sqlite3.h... -------------------- no
But I've confirmed the sqlite3.h file (and the sqlite3.c, sqlite3.o, and sqlite3.h files) is in my c:\sqlite3 directory, and as noted above, I've also tried installing '--with-opt-dir'.
So next I trace the error when I 'require' sqlite to a file '\kernel_require.rb' in ruby/lib, and it references to this:
if Gem::Specification.unresolved_deps.empty? then
return gem_original_require(path)
end
I'm lost, and WAY out of my depth. At this point my only solution would be either to completely uninstall and start again, or to downgrade to ruby 1.9.x, but others seem to have sqlite3 and ruby 2.0 working so it's obviously (?) semi-stable. Help?
UPDATE: I've now tried downgrading to ruby 1.9.3, and apart from pik reverting to the most recent version of ruby every time I shut the command line, I can actually get the server to run etc. So it seems this issue is related specifically to ruby 2.0.
I am encountering the same issue, except that I don't really think that it is related to Ruby 2, but to rails 4 instead.
I have managed to install the sqlite3 gem by downloading the source, dll and exec (dll and executables need to be added to PATH accessible) and installying the gem with the follwing process:
Download:
http://www.sqlite.org/2013/sqlite-amalgamation-3071700.zip
http://www.sqlite.org/2013/sqlite-dll-win32-x86-3071700.zip
Extract and put the files in a location on your C drive or wherever you want. Then copy sqlite.dll and sqlite.def to the Ruby/bin directory.
Then you go to the DevKit directory and run msys.bat, in which you issue the following command:
gem install sqlite3 --platform=ruby -- --with-sqlite3-dir=path-to-sqlite --with-sqlite3-include=path-to-sqlite
This allowed me to install the gem successfully (using Ruby-2.0.0-p247 x86 and devkit). I validated through irb doing:
require 'sqlite3'
SQLite3::SQLITE_VERSION
I'm still trying to figure out this issue.
I get the same error message when I try to start the server or whenever I try to run the rails console.
I'd love to get this issue fixed...

Error installing gems that use native extensions on Ubuntu, Ruby 1.9.2 via RVM

I get an error while trying to install the ffi gem:
~ - 16:54>gem i ffi
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing ffi:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
rake RUBYARCHDIR=/home/mdemare/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/ffi-1.0.6/lib RUBYLIBDIR=/home/mdemare/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/ffi-1.0.6/lib
/home/mdemare/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:370:in `bin_path': can't find gem rake ([">= 0"]) with executable rake (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
from /home/mdemare/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/bin/rake:19:in `<main>'
Gem files will remain installed in /home/mdemare/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/ffi-1.0.6 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/mdemare/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/ffi-1.0.6/gen/gem_make.out
I'm getting frequent errors of all kinds while installing gems with native extensions, so I assume that there's something broken with my Ubuntu installation, but I've no idea what. I'll post any information you need to diagnose the problem.
EDIT: When I cd to the ffi gem (mentioned in the second but last line), and run the rake line in line 6, I get "Could not find RubyGem rake-compiler".
After gem i rake-compiler, and run rake again, I get this:
configure: error: source directory already configured; run "make distclean" there first
make: *** [/home/mdemare/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/ffi-1.0.6/build/x86_64-linux/ffi_c/1.9.2/libffi/.libs/libffi_convenience.a] Error 1
rake aborted!
Command failed with status (2): [make...]
Update:
These are my rake gemspecs:
~ - 10:59>find ~/.rvm/ -name 'rake-0.8.7.gemspec'
~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/specifications/rake-0.8.7.gemspec
~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136#global/specifications/rake-0.8.7.gemspec
~/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/specifications/rake-0.8.7.gemspec
The last one is where gem looks, but that gemspec is different from the first one, and doesn't include the executable. Copying the long one doesn't quite solve the problem though - I get a file not found for the rake executable.
This caused me a ton of aggravation at the Boston Hack Day when trying to install Vagrant (for which FFI is a dependency). I ended up wasting so much time that I switched machines to work around the problem.
After the fact, I found a hack that works (although I'm sure there's a better solution). The file that the error message is complaining about
~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/rake
differs from other similar copies in that it's missing path setup stuff at the head, so I copied these lines from one of the files that had them:
[genericized per #danv's answer below. Thanks for the improvement!]
ENV['GEM_HOME']=ENV['GEM_HOME'] || '~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180'
ENV['GEM_PATH']=ENV['GEM_PATH'] || '~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180:~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180#global'
ENV['PATH']='~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin:~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180#global/bin:~/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin:' + ENV['PATH']
That fixed it for me. This was a new Ubuntu 10.10 install with no default Ruby installation (which could be part of the problem) and Ruby 1.9.2 installed using RVM. Lots of other gems installed fine, including those requiring native compilation, so the problem is something specific to FFI.
I had a similar problem, and a workaround at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=529663 helped me.
In short, try to install the gem with:
$ rake=/usr/bin/rake gem install ffi
#Tom Morris - Tried your method and it worked fine.
I inserted your path specs (modified - see below) into ~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/rake after line 12.
I modified the path specs so they are generic using ~ for the user home:
ENV['GEM_HOME']=ENV['GEM_HOME'] || "~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180"
ENV['GEM_PATH']=ENV['GEM_PATH'] || "~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180:~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180#global"
ENV['PATH']="~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin:~/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180#global/bin:~/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin:"+ ENV['PATH']
Thanks for finding this fix!
Thanks #Tim Morris and #danv, your answers / comments helped. I adjusted for my setup, which is based more towards a superuser environment. Now this is what /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/rake looks like on my server:
require 'rubygems'
version = ">= 0"
ENV['GEM_HOME']=ENV['GEM_HOME'] || "/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180"
ENV['GEM_PATH']=ENV['GEM_PATH'] || "/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180:/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180#global"
if ARGV.first =~ /^_(.*)_$/ and Gem::Version.correct? $1 then
version = $1
ARGV.shift
end
gem 'rake', version
load Gem.bin_path('rake', 'rake', version)
The installer attempts to run rake but fails when it isn't found:
can't find gem rake ([">= 0"]) with executable rake (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
You need to install the rake gem: gem install rake.

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