Background:
- I get errors whenever I run rake in an older project. (uninitialized constant Rake::DSL).
- The rails project in question is an old project that was started with Rails 2.1 (I think), and since then I’ve updated the OS on my laptop a couple of times, and made updates along the way to make it run.
- Right now, the rails app works fine, provided I have RAILS_GEM_VERSION set to 2.3.5. I’m not sure if the app was completely updated to Rails 2.3.5.
- There is no Gemfile in my older project.
- If I create a brand-new rails project (and unset RAILS_GEM_VERSION), rake runs fine.
My question: To troubleshoot, I’d like to try newer versions of rake. I’d like to know how to force one specific version to be used, since it appears I have multiple versions installed.
Info on my environment:
$ gem list rake
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
rake (0.9.2.2, 0.9.2, 0.8.7, 0.8.3)
$ rake --version
rake, version 0.8.7
So it looks like it’s picking up the 0.8.7 version.
All the help files online seem to tell me to specify the rake version in the Gemfile, but there isn’t one in this project. (Maybe it predates gemfiles?)
If I unset the RAILS_GEM_ENVIRONMENT variable altogether, and try to run rake, I get:
rake aborted!
can't activate rails (= 2.3.5, runtime) for [], already activated rails-3.2.8 for []
None of the environment config files in my older project set that variable either.
This may be of help. Have you tried the underscore solution?
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