[Rails] Question about fresh GEM install

[Jim Weirich]

On Wednesday 05 January 2005 06:34 pm, Trevor wrote:
> So it would appear that it needs rubygems to be loaded before it can
> find the appropriate rake files.  I would suspect that on the
> sparc-solaris2.7 machine, if I added "require 'rubygems'" to the first
> line of the Rails Rakefile that the problem would be solved.  Does
> anyone know why I would have to do this on a sparc-solaris2.7
> installation but not a i386-linux-gnu installation?

Shooting in the dark here ... Perhaps you have a partial non-gem installation 
of rake.  The rake executable begins with :

  begin
    require 'rake'
  rescue LoadError
    require 'rubygems'
    require_gem 'rake'
  end

If it finds a non-gem rake.rb file, then it never loads up rubygems.  But if 
the non-gem installation is partial (e.g. someone blew away the rake 
directory but not the rake.rb file), then it won't find the gempagetask 
later.

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