Two RoR probs: script\console "no such file to load" error, test "rake aborted!"

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Hi,

I am a newb to RoR but finding it much more difficult than most people maintain. I'm trying to follow a beginner's tutorial and have meticulously followed each step but keep running into problems. Just in case, I have even tried everything on two different machines with no luck.

(The tutorial is by Obie Fernandez and can be found on page 14 of http://www.ratio.co.uk/ov9pdf.pdf.)

My two machines are both Windows XP; for the first I installed everything piecemeal (Ruby, Rails, MySQL, etc) and for the second I used InstantRails. They both SEEM to be working in every way except for the problems given below. I have searched numerous posts and sites for some answers, but though people seem to be encountering these problems no one has suggested a solution that works for me. PLEASE help, if you can--I would so appreciate it!

ERROR 1: This is the error I get when trying to run a Ruby console (a la page 19 of the tutorial). Interestingly I did not get this error before starting the tutorial.

C:\user\example>ruby script\console Loading development environment. c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:252:in `require': no such file to load -- ./script/../config/../config/environment (LoadError)         from c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:252:in `load_modules'         from c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:250:in `load_modules'         from c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:21:in `setup'         from c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:54:in `start'         from c:/Ruby/bin/irb.bat:20

ERROR 2: This is the error I get when trying to run a generic test (nothing customized yet) using rake (a la page 20 of the tutorial):

C:\user\example>rake (in C:/user/example) c:/Ruby/bin/ruby -Ilib;test "c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" c:/Ruby/bin/ruby -Ilib;test "c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" rake aborted! Test failures

In case you are interested to see the whole trace (using --trace), it is as follows:

C:\user\example>rake --trace (in C:/user/example) ** Invoke default (first_time) ** Invoke test (first_time) ** Execute test ** Invoke test:units (first_time) ** Invoke db:test:prepare (first_time) ** Invoke environment (first_time) ** Execute environment ** Execute db:test:prepare ** Invoke db:test:clone (first_time) ** Invoke db:schema:dump (first_time) ** Invoke environment ** Execute db:schema:dump ** Execute db:test:clone ** Invoke db:schema:load (first_time) ** Invoke environment ** Execute db:schema:load ** Invoke test:functionals (first_time) ** Invoke db:test:prepare ** Execute test:functionals c:/Ruby/bin/ruby -Ilib;test "c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" ** Invoke test:integration (first_time) ** Invoke db:test:prepare ** Execute test:integration c:/Ruby/bin/ruby -Ilib;test "c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" rake aborted! Test failures c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/tasks/testing.rake:35 c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:387:in `execute' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:387:in `execute' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:357:in `invoke' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:in `synchronize' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:350:in `invoke' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:364:in `invoke_prerequisites' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:999:in `each' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:363:in `invoke_prerequisites' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:356:in `invoke' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:in `synchronize' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:350:in `invoke' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:1906:in `run' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:1906:in `run' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/bin/rake:7 c:/Ruby/bin/rake.bat:25

Does anyone have any clue what is going on? As I say, I have searched numerous groups and sites and can't find any answers to these two problems. Please do help!

Many thanks in advance, TOM

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Hi all,

I've figured out at least an immediate workaround to the first error. Hope this saves some other people some time. You simply run ruby with the entire path indicated:

ruby c:\user\example\script\console

That's it.

TOM

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Are you opening your command window through Instant Rails ("Rails Applications > Open Ruby Console Window")? This is important because it ensures that the ruby\bin directory for the copy of ruby included in IR is first on your system path.

Also, when using Instant Rails, your rails applications need to be inside of the ...\InstantRails\rails_apps directory.

And, finally, when you try to start up the rails console via "ruby script\console" your current directory *must* be the root directory of your rails application.

Make sure all three conditions above are true and try again -- it should work.

Curt