Ok, this is very weird. I’m trying to do a database migration, and all of a sudden, I’m getting these errors:
[C:\source\fe]: rake db:migrate --trace (in C:/source/fe) ** Invoke db:migrate (first_time) ** Invoke setup (first_time) ** Invoke gems:install (first_time) ** Invoke gems:set_gem_status (first_time) ** Execute gems:set_gem_status ** Execute gems:install rake aborted! can`'t activate rake (> 0.0.0), already activated rake-0.8.3] c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:139:in `activate' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:155:in `activate' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:in `each' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:in `activate' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:49:in `gem' C:/source/fe/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/gem_dependency.rb:36:in `add_load_paths' C:/source/fe/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:245:in `add_gem_load_paths' C:/source/fe/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:245:in `each' C:/source/fe/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:245:in `add_gem_load_paths' C:/source/fe/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:97:in `send' C:/source/fe/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:97:in `run' C:/source/fe/config/gems.rb:45:in `init_dependencies' C:/source/fe/lib/tasks/overridegems.rake:15 c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:617:in `call' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:617:in `execute' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:612:in `each' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:612:in `execute' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:578:in `invoke_with_call_chain' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:571:in `invoke_with_call_chain' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:588:in `invoke_prerequisites' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:585:in `each' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:585:in `invoke_prerequisites' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:577:in `invoke_with_call_chain' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:571:in `invoke_with_call_chain' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:588:in `invoke_prerequisites' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:585:in `each' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:585:in `invoke_prerequisites' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:577:in `invoke_with_call_chain' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:571:in `invoke_with_call_chain' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:564:in `invoke' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2019:in `invoke_task' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `top_level' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `each' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `top_level' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2036:in `standard_exception_handling' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1991:in `top_level' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1970:in `run' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2036:in `standard_exception_handling' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1967:in `run' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/bin/rake:31 c:/ruby/bin/rake:19:in `load' c:/ruby/bin/rake:19 [C:\source\fe]:
Any suggestions? I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling rake, as well as updating rails.
FYI, I’m using Gem 1.1.1.
I’ve also tried gem update rails, gem update rake and just about anything else.
Interestingly, the solution here was that i needed to downgrade my rake version. The local version (in my C:\ruby dir) was overriding the one in the source directory, and couldn’t be loaded. I had done gem update and updated all my local gems.
The commands were: