rake-0.8.1 seems to be broken in my Rails 2.0.2 installation

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Hi,

I've been trying for a week to get my first Rails app developed using migrations. I failed on the command: rake db:migrate

My last resort has been to faithfully follow Rails Cookbook's first example. I stumbled a few times but finally implemented the Cookbook's example up to the "rake db:migrate" command, where I got:

C:\var\www\cookbook>rake db:migrate K:/_Utilities/ruby186-26_rc2/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/ lib/rake.rb:2242: private method `task' called for Rake:Module (NoMethodError)         from K:/_Utilities/ruby186-26_rc2/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'         from K:/_Utilities/ruby186-26_rc2/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'         from K:/_Utilities/ruby186-26_rc2/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ rake-0.8.1/bin/rake:26         from K:/_Utilities/ruby186-26_rc2/ruby/bin/rake:19:in `load'         from K:/_Utilities/ruby186-26_rc2/ruby/bin/rake:19

Eventually, it dawned on me to try "rake" with no arguments, with "- h", with "-v" and always got the same 6 lines of output.

"gem list -r rake" reported that 0.8.1 is rake's current version.

I'm running: ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32] Rails 2.0.2 rake-0.8.1 (apparently: I can't get "rake -v" to work, of course) WinXP-Pro/SP2

A gentile push over this hump, even a blunt knock in the head, would be greatly appreciated. I apologize for the several threads I've started on this topic.

Best wishes, Richard

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Have you tried re-installing rake? That first entry in the trace looks weird to me--my copy of rake.rb only has 2,240 lines in it...

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Hi Roy,

Thanks for reporting your take on the situation! No, I didn't try re- installing because I wanted to wait to see if anyone saw anything weird about it or could point out how I'm mistaken.

I'll reinstall and post back.

Best wishes, Richard

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Hey Roy,

You were a godsend! A faulty Rake installation has been killing me for days as I grasped at one theory and then another to explain the anomaly.

So here's the result of my migration: C:\var\www\cookbook>rake db:migrate (in C:/var/www/cookbook) == 1 BuildDb: migrating

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Hey Roy,

You were a godsend! A faulty Rake installation has been killing me for days as I grasped at one theory and then another to explain the anomaly.

So here's the result of my migration: C:\var\www\cookbook>rake db:migrate (in C:/var/www/cookbook) == 1 BuildDb: migrating