Upgrade the offending gem. If you cannot or don't want to upgrade, lock rake to 0.8.7.
Our old solution for cronjobs, the "craken" plugin, is no longer maintained and does not work on Rails 3.2+.
Note: Modern Rails has two build pipelines, the asset pipeline (or "Sprockets") and Webpacker. The principles below apply for both...
Under certain circumstances gettext_i18n_rails will hit a near-infinite loop. This occured in Rails 2.3.5 with Haml 3.0.18...
For custom Rake tasks, you shouldn't need to modify them after the original definition. However, if you want to...
Rake (like make) allows you to add dependencies to a task after you've initially declared it. Indeed it allows...
In Rails 3.1+, instead of defining a separate up and down method you can define a single method change:
If you use rails_admin, your specs pass with the rspec binary, but not using rake spec (or rake parallel...
This describes all the steps you'll need to get Solr up and running for your project using the Sunspot...
Use the command geordi migrate to migrate your databases and to prepare them before running tests. The abbrevation geordi m...
Instead of running all missing migrations on your test database with rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test you can also...
The Rails logger will store its content in a buffer and write it into the file system every 1000 lines...
In order to monitor a Rake task using God your Rake file must write a file with its process ID...
If Rails or Rake are complaining about a missing gem that is listed in your Gemfile.lock and the listed version...
When you run rake db:create and get this error message Couldn't create database for {"encoding"=>"utf8", "username"=>"root...
Most likely you run rake and your code is causing an exception which is not the one shown in your...
When you put a Rake task into lib/tasks, but running it fails with... Don't know how to build task...
We forked craken today and fixed one of the issues we had with new (>0.8.7) rake versions. The craken:install...
The state_machine gem comes with a rake task that lets you generate PNG graphs from any model using state...
When the Ruby parser module of Ruby-GetText comes across a file in one of its search directories (e.g. lib/scripts...
Some folks have started to keep their linux configuration in a git repository called "dotfiles". This sounds like a good...
With gem dependency it is possible to check the dependencies for your gem before you install it.
Sometimes, when running a rake task, RubyGems 1.8.5 raises an error: rake aborted! undefined method `specifications' for "/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8":String
Because your examples should not change global state, you should not need to care about the order in which RSpec...