Global access to Rake DSL methods is deprecated - ruby-on-rails-3

I am working through the Ruby on Rails 3 tutorial book and typed the following on the command line:
rake db:migrate
which produced the following warning.
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 DemoApp::Application#task called at /Users/imac/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180#rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.7/lib/rails/application.rb:215:in `initialize_tasks'
I am not sure what to do about it or how to work with it. I don't know any other command for Rake.
How can I fix this problem?

Adding include Rake::DSL to the Rakefile before the applications load_tasks were called also worked for me.
So in the above user's case before the DemoApp::Application.load_tasks in the Rakefile.

I found this in Stack Overflow question Ruby on Rails and Rake problems: uninitialized constant Rake::DSL. It refers to a #DHH tweet.
Put the following in your Gemfile
gem "rake", "0.8.7"
You may see something like
rake aborted!
You have already activated Rake 0.9.1 ...
I still had a copy of Rake 0.9.1 in my directory so I deleted it.
You can "delete" Rake 0.9.1 by running the following command:
gem uninstall rake -v=0.9.1
If you have multiple versions of the gem installed, you'll be prompted to pick a version.
After 0.9.1 was cleaned out, I ran
bundle update rake
and was finally able to create my database files. I was using rake db:create, but it should work for rake db:migrate as well.
I hope it helps.

I was having the same problem on Windows with the installer. Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.0.9.
Here is what I did:
bundle update rake
bundle show rake
After doing that I was running rake 0.9.2.
Then I updated the Rakefile in application root folder as follows:
require File.expand_path('../config/application', __FILE__)
require 'rake'
# If you named your application something other than SampleApp, change that below
module ::SampleApp
class Application
include Rake::DSL
end
end
module ::RakeFileUtils
extend Rake::FileUtilsExt
end
SampleApp::Application.load_tasks
As noted in the comment, make sure the name of your app is correct in the two appropriate lines above.

If you are seeing this on later versions of Rails (like 3.+) you may also want to verify that your environment is clean by using RVM http://beginrescueend.com/ and creating a specific ruby & gemset for your projects.
Use an .rvmrc file on a per-project basis, this will guarantee you aren't getting older system gems into your projects. Which has bitten me before.
This prevents having to monkey around with generated Rakefiles & such.

bundle exec rake db:migrate will solve your ruby version issues

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Rails 3.2.11 performance testing issue: Don't know how to build task 'test:benchmark'

I'm following this railscast on performance testing, but I'm immediately running into an issue.
My app is rails 3.2.11, so according to the railscast it should include performance testing, but I don't have a folder called 'test' at all. When I run 'rails generate performance_test homepage' nothing happens or is generated. So I created one manually (to exactly match the railscast source code), but when I run rake test:benchmark I get the error
Don't know how to build task 'test:benchmark'
If I add the 'rails-perftest' gem to my gemfile and run bundle, then again try to generate a performance_test nothing happens, and when I then run rake test:benchmark, it throws a different error of
uninitialized constant Rails::SubTestTask
I've been sure to include the following dependencies in my gem file:
gem 'ruby-prof', group: :test
gem 'test-unit', group: :test
Could anyone help advise me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!
I am not 100% certain on this, but I am guessing that you might not have your application.rb file configured accordingly. Also check your Gemfile.lock file and run the command bundle install because it could also be something funky going on with your Gems and dependencies.

Why are there no rake tasks in this mongoid Rails 3 project?

https://github.com/memphis518/Garden-Dating-Service
The public repo above is a community coding project we're working on for Austin Community Gardens, and it's a fairly simple project so far, but for some reason rake db:seed doesn't work ("Don't know how to build task db:seed"), and when you run rake -T it reveals no rake tasks at all.
MongoID documentation says it provides most of the usual DB-related rake tasks - I can't figure out why they're not there.
I had the similar problem with Rails 3.X, although the mongoid Gem was included in my Gemfile. I could solve the problem by explicitly requiring the database.rake file from the mongoid gem. I added this 2 lines to my Rakefile:
spec = Gem::Specification.find_by_name 'mongoid'
load "#{spec.gem_dir}/lib/mongoid/railties/database.rake"
That works for me.
Had the exact same issue.
Realized I never added "mongoid" to my Gemfile. This fixes it:
gem 'mongoid'
It will add these rake tasks:
rake db:drop # Drops all the collections for the database for the current Rails.env
rake db:mongoid:create_indexes # Create the indexes defined on your mongoid models
rake db:mongoid:drop # Drops the database for the current Rails.env
rake db:mongoid:remove_indexes # Remove the indexes defined on your mongoid models without questions!
rake db:reseed # Delete data and seed
rake db:seed # Load the seed data from db/seeds.rb
rake db:setup # Create the database, and initialize with the seed data

Error in Ruby on Rails

I am trying to learn Ruby on rails following the "Agile Web Development with Rails" book.
In the book it says how to create a doc file for your project:
rails_apps> rails new dummy_app
rails_apps> cd dummy_app
dummy_app> rake doc:rails
but I get this error:
rake aborted!
Could not find a JavaScript runtime. See https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs for a list of available runtimes.
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
why? and how can i fix it?
You need to install a Javascript runtime. There are a few options listed in the URL in the error message (https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs). If you don't have a strong preference, I'd recommend therubyracer (Google V8).
Just add this to your Gemfile:
gem 'therubyracer', require: "v8"
and run
bundle install

warning in installation in fedena

I got following warning while installing fedena , how do I fix it
rake/rdoctask is deprecated. Use rdoc/task instead (in RDoc 2.4.2+)
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 Spec::Rake::SpecTask#task called at C:/Fedena/lib/tasks/rspe
c.rake:28:in `initialize'
I had recently installed Fedena. The command "bundle exec rake db:create" worked for me! Glad to provide more info if needed!
1. Go to rakefile
change require 'rake/rdoctask'
to require 'rdoc/task'
2. Go to Gemfile
add gem 'rdoc'
3. run Bundle

Set up RSpec to test a gem (not Rails)

It is pretty easy with the added generator of rspec-rails to set up RSpec for testing a Rails application. But how about adding RSpec for testing a gem in development?
I am not using jeweler or such tools. I just used Bundler (bundle gem my_gem) to setup the structure for the new gem and edit the *.gemspec manually.
I also added s.add_development_dependency "rspec", ">= 2.0.0" to gemspec and did a bundle install.
Is there some nice tutorial what to do next to get RSpec working?
I've updated this answer to match current best practices:
Bundler supports gem development perfectly. If you are creating a gem, the only thing you need to have in your Gemfile is the following:
source "https://rubygems.org"
gemspec
This tells Bundler to look inside your gemspec file for the dependencies when you run bundle install.
Next up, make sure that RSpec is a development dependency of your gem. Edit the gemspec so it reads:
spec.add_development_dependency "rspec"
Next, create spec/spec_helper.rb and add something like:
require 'bundler/setup'
Bundler.setup
require 'your_gem_name' # and any other gems you need
RSpec.configure do |config|
# some (optional) config here
end
The first two lines tell Bundler to load only the gems inside your gemspec. When you install your own gem on your own machine, this will force your specs to use your current code, not the version you have installed separately.
Create a spec, for example spec/foobar_spec.rb:
require 'spec_helper'
describe Foobar do
pending "write it"
end
Optional: add a .rspec file for default options and put it in your gem's root path:
--color
--format documentation
Finally: run the specs:
$ rspec spec/foobar_spec.rb
Iain's solution above works great!
If you also want a Rakefile, this is all you need:
require 'rspec/core/rake_task'
RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec)
# If you want to make this the default task
task default: :spec
Check the RDoc for RakeTask for various options that you can optionally pass into the task definition.
You can generate your new gem with rspec by running bundler gem --test=rspec my_gem. No additional Setup!
I always forget this. It's implemented here: https://github.com/bundler/bundler/blob/33d2f67d56fe8bf00b0189c26125d27527ef1516/lib/bundler/cli/gem.rb#L36
Here's a cheap and easy (though not officially recommended) way:
Make a dir in your gem's root called spec, put your specs in there. You probably already have rspec installed, but if you don't, just do a gem install rspec and forget Gemfiles and bundler.
Next, you'll make a spec, and you need to tell it where your app is, where your files are, and include the file you want to test (along with any dependencies it has):
# spec/awesome_gem/awesome.rb
APP_ROOT = File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', '..'))
$: << File.join(APP_ROOT, 'lib/awesome_gem') # so rspec knows where your file could be
require 'some_file_in_the_above_dir' # this loads the class you want to test
describe AwesomeGem::Awesome do
before do
#dog = AwesomeGem::Awesome.new(name: 'woofer!')
end
it 'should have a name' do
#dog.name.should eq 'woofer!'
end
context '#lick_things' do
it 'should return the dog\'s name in a string' do
#dog.lick_things.should include 'woofer!:'
end
end
end
Open up Terminal and run rspec:
~/awesome_gem $ rspec
..
Finished in 0.56 seconds
2 examples, 0 failures
If you want some .rspec options love, go make a .rspec file and put it in your gem's root path. Mine looks like this:
# .rspec
--format documentation --color --debug --fail-fast
Easy, fast, neat!
I like this because you don't have to add any dependencies to your project at all, and the whole thing remains very fast. bundle exec slows things down a little, which is what you'd have to do to make sure you're using the same version of rspec all the time. That 0.56 seconds it took to run two tests was 99% taken up by the time it took my computer to load up rspec. Running hundreds of specs should be extremely fast. The only issue you could run into that I'm aware of is if you change versions of rspec and the new version isn't backwards compatible with some function you used in your test, you might have to re-write some tests.
This is nice if you are doing one-off specs or have some good reason to NOT include rspec in your gemspec, however it's not very good for enabling sharing or enforcing compatibility.