Rails migration from 2.2.2 to 2.3.8

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I have an app that has been around a while that I'm migrating for Rails 2.3.8. There have been a lot of interesting issues, but I'm on the home stretch, but have now run into some very odd errors.

The gist is when I run a task with rake it fails, but when I run the same code form the console it works fine. The 'fix' I devised was to move my include ModuleNameA, include ModuleNameB, etc to the bottom of the AR file.

I don't like this 'fix' as I don't understand it. Before I moved them the AR object (we will call it Bob) kept throwing undefined method errors when it was called through the rake invocation. It was invoked in the rake task, but in another AR object.

So the rake task was running something like Worker.work, and it would fail as described above. When I run Worker.work from the console it would pass. Once I moved the includes to the bottom of the file both would work.

Anyone ever seen anything like this? I feel like something fundamental isn't correct. Like I have broken something basic to the functionality and my 'fix' is some kind of weird patch.

thanks. Erik

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I noticed that if i take the :work => :environment part out of the rake task and instead in the task do block require the environment file by hand (e.g. require(File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'config', 'environment'))) it works fine. All of a sudden all of my class methods are available. this is very disturbing. Any help would be great.

Thanks. erik

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What version of Rails was your app in before? Please post the code and any error messages that you receive while running it.

Thanks,

B.