I really want to upgrade a Rails 3.0 project to Rails 3.1, but I’ve done a few spikes and it lacks test coverage, so I decided to pull in cucumber and write some features before moving forward.

I added cucumber-rails to my gemfile, and ran “bundle” and got this error:

/Users/sarah/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/specification.rb:289:in `load': uninitialized constant Psych::Syck (NameError)

What I really needed was to update my Ruby Gems (bundle update –system) but before I discovered that I did “bundle update” which moved me forward to rake 0.9.2, so I started getting these warnings:

/Users/sarah/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@pie-bakery/gems/psych-1.2.1/lib/psych.rb:93: warning: already initialized constant VERSION
/Users/sarah/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@pie-bakery/gems/psych-1.2.1/lib/psych.rb:96: warning: already initialized constant LIBYAML_VERSION
WARNING: Global access to Rake DSL methods is deprecated.  Please include
...  Rake::DSL into classes and modules which use the Rake DSL methods.
WARNING: DSL method Bakery::Application#task called at /Users/sarah/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@pie-bakery/gems/railties-3.0.0/lib/rails/application.rb:214:in `initialize_tasks'

So, I’ve learned from google, stackoverflow, various blogs and my twitter friend @excid3 that I need to update my Rakefile to include:

require 'rake/dsl_definition'
require 'rake'
include Rake::DSL

That lets me use rake (yay!). I still have the following two warnings:

/Users/sarah/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@pie-bakery/gems/psych-1.2.1/lib/psych.rb:93: warning: already initialized constant VERSION
/Users/sarah/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@pie-bakery/gems/psych-1.2.1/lib/psych.rb:96: warning: already initialized constant LIBYAML_VERSION

which I’m hoping will go away with the Rails 3.1 upgrade, but I thought I would write up the rest of it in case it helps other wayward souls on their journey.

One thought on “rails 3.0 and rake 0.9.2

  1. When upgrading to 3.1, don’t forget to run ‘rails new pie-bakery’ again over your project. Your Rakefile will be different on 3.1, as well as some other files. I let it override everything and use git to bring back previous settings.

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