I'm using Sinatra, and I wanted to set up some of the convenience rake tasks that Rails has, specifically rake db:seed. My first pass was this: namespace :db do desc 'Load the seed data from db/seeds.rb' task :seed do seed_file = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'db', 'seeds.rb') system("racksh < #{seed_file}") end end ...
Hi, I have trouble getting started with rails 3.0.0, because it just doesn't load the rake tasks rake gems:install rake aborted! Don't know how to build task 'gems:install' rake -T rake about # List versions of all Rails frameworks and the environment rake db:create # Create the database from config/database.ym...
On the server (where I am not root), I have compiled libxslt into /home/foo/sw. So I can install my gem like so: gem install nokogiri -- --with-xslt-dir=/home/foo/sw However, this same technique doesn't work with rake: $ rake gems:build -- --with-xslt-dir=/home/foo/sw (in /home/foo/fooapp/releases/20100915071151) If I try to forc...
Is there a command line switch I'm missing? At the moment I'm having to do this: #task :install => :build do task :install do end ...
Okay, so I installed rvm and everything as root. Then I installed Ruby Enterprise Edition with rvm. Now I've been having a TON of issues with rake and rvm so far and I'm not too sure as to why. I had to manually create links in my /usr/local/bin to rake to get rake working. But when I passenger-install-nginx-module Welcome to the Ph...
This is the error I get: ContactPostalcardsController#skip (NoMethodError) "undefined method `status=' for #<ContactPostalcard:0x2b21433d64b0>" This is the code calling it and trying to assign a value to the status attribute for ContactPostalcard (the Model): def skip @contact_postalcard = ContactPostalcard.new(params[:contact...
I'm using NetBeans + Rails 2.3.8. I notice that whenever I generate a model, the migration filename for it includes the date and time: Model Name: User Migration File Name : 20100916172053_create_users.rb But when I see books (like Agile Web Development with Rails), the (rake-generated examples int it) all show simple numbers like 0...
I'm using RVM and would like to install Phusion Passenger on Snow Leopard. After installing the Passenger gem (version 2.2.15) I try run the Apache module installer script passenger-install-apache2-module. But it compains that it can't find rake: ... * RubyGems... found * Rake... not found * rack... found ... There is alrea...
I tried creating a DB migration in Rails that looked something like this: ruby script/generate scaffold post user_id:int title:string content:text Looking at the resulting .rb file, sure enough, I saw everything I'd entered: class CreatePosts < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table :posts do |t| t.int :user_id...
Hello there, I'm stuck with a rake task that need to prepare a newsletter for Mailchimp. Using rails 2.x stuff googled I now have this code: desc "Sends newsletter to Mailchimp list" task :send_newsletter => :environment do begin # get render helpers av = ActionView::Base.new(Rails::Application::Configuration.new(Rai...
Hi, Let's say I have a rakefile like this: file 'file1' => some_dependencies do sh 'external tool I do not have control over, which sometimes fail to create the file' ??? end task :default => 'file1' do puts "everything's OK" end Now if I put nothing in place of ???, I get the OK message, even if the external tool fails to ge...
I'm new to Rails and I'm building a simple project-tracking app for my employer. I've been developing the app on my Mac and pushing it to github. I just managed to clone my github repo to a windows box behind my company's firewall in hopes of letting colleagues try the app out. But when I go to rake db:migrate to initialize the database...
trying to setup webistrano and getting the following error: rake db:migrate (in /var/www/html/webistrano) rake aborted! /var/www/html/webistrano/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb:273: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting keyword_then or ',' or ';' or '\n' when 1: "#{number}st" ^ /var/w...
Hi, I am not able to create database columns when i use t.string or t.number. When i did rake db:migrate i got this C:\Ruby\joker\chapter3>rake db:migrate (in C:/Ruby/joker/chapter3) == CreateComicBooks: migrating =============================================== -- create_table(:comic_books) -> 0.0630s == CreateComicBooks: migrate...
I have seen some apps that have a few rake tasks included to load data. I am not talking about seed data, I know about db/seeds.rb, instead I am referring to data such as default users and basic records that help me fill my application with something to look at. I don't want to use db:fixtures:load because I don't have any control over...
Hi, I moved a Rails 2.3 application to Rails 3. The application actually works perfectly, but I have issue with rake tasks. It looks like the config in the environment file is not initialized correctly. the error I get is: rake aborted! undefined method `cache_classes=' for #<Hash:0x3c3e850> /var/www/apps/nzar3/config/environments/devel...
Trying to integrate some friendly_id gem functionality on a controller method. Essentially, I have a Market object, which has its URL created based on a custom method. Since it's based on a custom method, friendly_id won't update the URL when the Market object gets updated. Friendly_id does offer a redo_slugs rake task, but when I cal...
The forms I know of are: For Rails 3.0: for rails server: rails server -e production for rails console rails console production for rake rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production Is that it? I know for rails runner and rails dbconsole, it is -e production as well. Are there more forms and what are other ones that use -e vs just ...
Hi, I am working on Windows XP machine. I have started to create an application in rails but I am getting Segmentation fault error. Below are the ruby & rails version I am using. C:\Ruby>ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i386-mingw32] C:\Ruby>rails -v Rails 2.3.8 When ever I run the server, I am getting this error. C...
How can I call specified 1st app's rake task from second one. Case: User on baseapp.com (RoR), fills up the reg.form BaseApp validates and stores data Than, with delayed_job/resque I should call subapp's rake db:bootstrap FORM_PARAM1 FORM_PARAM2 ... FORM_PARAM3 ...