Undefined method 'task' using Rake 0.9.0

Question

I just updated Rake to the latest version (0.9.0.beta.4) and the rake command ends up with the following error message:

rake aborted!
undefined method `task' for #<Anelis::Application:0x9223b6c>

Here is the trace:

undefined method `task' for #<Anelis::Application:0x97ef80c>
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/application.rb:214:in `initialize_tasks'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/application.rb:139:in `load_tasks'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/application.rb:77:in `method_missing'
/home/amokrane/Documents/prog/web/learning_rails/anelis/Rakefile:7:in `load_string'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rake-0.9.0.beta.4/lib/rake/environment.rb:28:in `eval'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rake-0.9.0.beta.4/lib/rake/environment.rb:28:in `load_string'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rake-0.9.0.beta.4/lib/rake/environment.rb:16:in `load_rakefile'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rake-0.9.0.beta.4/lib/rake/application.rb:495:in `raw_load_rakefile'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rake-0.9.0.beta.4/lib/rake/application.rb:78:in `block in load_rakefile'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rake-0.9.0.beta.4/lib/rake/application.rb:129:in `standard_exception_handling'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rake-0.9.0.beta.4/lib/rake/application.rb:77:in `load_rakefile'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rake-0.9.0.beta.4/lib/rake/application.rb:61:in `block in run'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rake-0.9.0.beta.4/lib/rake/application.rb:129:in `standard_exception_handling'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rake-0.9.0.beta.4/lib/rake/application.rb:59:in `run'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rake-0.9.0.beta.4/bin/rake:31:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/bin/rake:19:in `load'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/bin/rake:19:in `<main>'

Anyone experienced the same issue? What could possibly be wrong? Note that I am running Rails 3.0.3, you may also be interested in the content of my Gemfile:

source 'http://rubygems.org'
gem 'rails', '3.0.3'
gem 'sqlite3-ruby', :require => 'sqlite3'
gem 'mysql2'
gem 'legacy_data'
gem 'resources_controller', :git => 'git://github.com/ianwhite/resources_controller'
gem 'will_paginate', '3.0.pre' # pagination
gem 'jquery-rails', '>= 0.2.6'
gem "rmagick" # sudo aptitude install libmagick9-dev
gem "paperclip", "~> 2.3"
gem "nested_form", :git => "git://github.com/madebydna/nested_form.git"
gem "meta_search"
gem "hirb"
gem "devise"
gem "rails_admin", :git => "git://github.com/sferik/rails_admin.git"

How can I fix this problem?

Answer 1

Rake 0.9.1 has just been released which reverses the change that caused this error but adds a deprecation warning: https://github.com/jimweirich/rake/commit/44aec3ceac085740bce0c385bccd65fc4d1d911c

Answer 2

I had the same exception when running the 0.9.0.beta.4 version of Rake. It looks like the new Rake::DSL is not loaded properly.

So I added following code to my Rakefile:

require 'rake'

# Rake Fix Code start
# NOTE: change 'Anelis' to your app's module name (see config/application.rb)
module ::Anelis
  class Application
    include Rake::DSL
  end
end

module ::RakeFileUtils
  extend Rake::FileUtilsExt
end
# Rake Fix Code end

MyApp::Application.load_tasks

That way I was able to run my Rake tasks again.

I know that this is not a elegant solution. But if you have to use the --pre version of Rake it might be all right to use this quick hack.