Problem using "rake gems:*" with mongrel_cluster, ruby-oci8, and sqlite3-ruby

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I'm having trouble using the environment.rb file to manage my gem dependencies for certain gems. For example, I added "config.gem mongrel_cluster" to my environment.rb file, and then installed it through "rake gems install", and it seemed to work fine:

+ sudo rake gems:install Password: (in /home/mdelaurentis/src/longview-web) gem install mongrel_cluster Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ Successfully installed mongrel_cluster-1.0.5 1 gem installed

But then when I use "rake gems" to list the gems, I get this "no such file to load error", and the list of gems shows mongrel_cluster as not being installed:

[mdelaurentis-lin:~/src/longview-web] + sudo rake gems (in /home/mdelaurentis/src/longview-web) no such file to load -- mongrel_cluster /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'

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[I] rcov [I] ar-extensions [I] json [I] daemons [I] mongrel [I] capistrano [I] gem_plugin mongrel_cluster

As you can see, some of the gems work just fine. I've only seen this problem with mongrel_cluster, sqlite3, and ruby-oci8. I'm using Ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 2.1.1.

Has anyone else encountered this?

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I figured it out. It's because the configuration was trying to load the mongrel_cluster, ruby-oci8, and sqlite3-ruby libraries through 'require "<gem-name>"'. I needed to specify the name for the library in the environment.rb file, like this:

config.gem "mongrel_cluster", :lib => "mongrel_cluster/init" config.gem "ruby-oci8", :lib => "oci8" config.gem "sqlite3-ruby", :lib => "sqlite3"

All my other gems had a *.rb file with the same name as the gem, but these three don't, so the :lib option must be used.

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Mike, thank you!!, you saved me some complicated workaround around this:

  config.gem "flickr-fu"   $ rake gems   These gems that this application depends on are missing:    - flickr-fu   Run "rake gems:install" to install them.

BUT:

  config.gem "flickr-fu", :lib => 'flickr_fu'   $ rake gems   [F] flickr-fu

I don't get why this isn't stated in the environment.rb examples more clearly.

Thanks again, hopefully someone searching this group for something "config.gem problem load gem installed" will find it :slight_smile:

Karel