Question

I am trying to install RedMine on a server.

During the procedures as explained here i am supposed to run

rake generate_secret_token

However, i am getting this error:

(in /home/var/redmine)
rake aborted!
uninitialized constant Rake::DSL
/home/var/redmine/Rakefile:7
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

After some research i discovered that rake 0.8.7 is supposedly having problems with this (that, at least, is how i understood it) and that i am supposed to use rake 0.9.2.2

I tried adding

gem 'rake', '0.9.2.2'

to my Gemfile.

I checked

rake --version

And get

rake, version 0.8.7

I ran

gem uninstall rake

Which succeeded, according to the output.

Then i ran

gem install rake -v=0.9.2.2

And the output was

Successfully installed rake-0.9.2.2
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for rake-0.9.2.2...
Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.9.2.2...

However, when then calling

rake --version

I still get

rake, version 0.8.7

I also experimented with adding

gem 'rake', '0.8.7'

to my Gemfile for redmine. However, then i get this response when running rake

You have requested:
rake = 0.8.7

The bundle currently has rake locked at 0.9.2.2.
Try running `bundle update rake`

What am i doing wrong here?

Answer 1

I was able to fix this strange issue by following these steps:

gem uninstall rake

Then

bundle update rake

This gave me the response that rake is already up-to-date, but still, i list it here – just in case.

Then

gem install rake -v=0.8.7

Furthermore in my Gemfile i had this configuration

source 'http://rubygems.org'
gem 'rails', '3.2.6'
gem 'rake', '0.8.7'

(In that order)

After doing all this i was able to run

rake generate_secret_token

successfully.