rake gems not working in test environment

rubyonrails-talk
1

I am unable to get 'rake gems' to run in my test environment. I am using the following command:

rake gems RAILS_ENV=test

and getting the error below. rake gems RAILS_ENV=development works ok.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Trace output:

** Invoke gems (first_time) ** Invoke gems:base (first_time) ** Execute gems:base ** Invoke environment (first_time) ** Execute environment rake aborted! no such file to load -- list /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:155:in `require' /Users/leelon/work/cbox/app/models/filter.rb:10 /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:155:in `require' /Users/leelon/work/cbox/app/models/event_subscription.rb:6 /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:155:in `require' /Users/leelon/work/cbox/app/models/subscription.rb:8 /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:155:in `require' /Users/leelon/work/cbox/app/models/property.rb:7 /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:155:in `require' /Users/leelon/work/cbox/app/models/member_entity.rb:6 /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:155:in `require' /Users/leelon/work/cbox/app/models/accessibility.rb:6 /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:155:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:262:in `require_or_load' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:221:in `depend_on' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:133:in `require_dependency' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/initializer.rb:368:in `load_application_classes' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/initializer.rb:367:in `each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/initializer.rb:367:in `load_application_classes' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/initializer.rb:365:in `each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/initializer.rb:365:in `load_application_classes' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/initializer.rb:185:in `process' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/initializer.rb:112:in `send' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/initializer.rb:112:in `run' /Users/leelon/work/cbox/config/environment.rb:13 /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:153:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:521:in `new_constants_in' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:153:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/tasks/misc.rake:3 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:617:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:617:in `execute' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:612:in `each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:612:in `execute' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:578:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ 1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:571:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:564:in `invoke' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/tasks/gems.rake:21 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:617:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:617:in `execute' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:612:in `each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:612:in `execute' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:578:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ 1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:571:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:588:in `invoke_prerequisites' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:585:in `each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:585:in `invoke_prerequisites' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:577:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ 1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:571:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:564:in `invoke' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2027:in `invoke_task' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2005:in `top_level' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2005:in `each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2005:in `top_level' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2044:in `standard_exception_handling' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:1999:in `top_level' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:1977:in `run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:2044:in `standard_exception_handling' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake.rb:1974:in `run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/bin/rake:31 /usr/bin/rake:19:in `load' /usr/bin/rake:19

2

I've now discovered this problem is being caused by a require statement in my models:

require 'list'

where 'list' is list.rb in the acts_as_list plugin.

I am unable to remove this as it is needed by a standalone Ruby program that uses the same models as the Rails environment (and ActiveRecord).

I still don't understand why 'rake gems' works in development but not in test - that is, rake gems only complains about the "require 'list'" statement when run in test. Any thoughts appreciated.

3

I have solved this problem by extending the load path in environment.rb:

config.load_paths += %W( #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/acts_as_list/lib/ active_record/acts )

rake gems RAILS_ENV=test is now able to resolve my "require 'list'" statements in my models.

4

The problem you ran into was the same one as this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/e87b901813a541a5?hl=en

and both are caused by load_application_classes trying to load all your models at startup. That routine does nothing when config.cache_classes is false (the default in development mode).

However, I'm surprised that "require 'list'" *ever* worked. Even with the Rails environment loaded, it gives me an error. The correct require would be 'active_record/acts/list'.

On a somewhat related note, I've found that Rake tasks work a lot better than standalone Ruby programs, and save a lot of headaches with loading the environment...

--Matt Jones