Rake and 1.8.4

[Jamis Buck]

Looks like there may be a problem with Rake 0.6.2 and Ruby 1.8.4. If
I have a task that uses either chdir or cd, I get an error:

rake aborted!
no such option: noop
/Users/jamis/ruby184/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1422:in
`fu_check_options'
/Users/jamis/ruby184/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:119:in `cd'
/Users/jamis/ruby184/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/lib/rake.rb:
640:in `cd'
./rakefile:67

Apparenly, FileUtils.chdir doesn't take the :noop parameter anymore?
I'm working around this by just invoking FileUtils.chdir directly.

- Jamis

 

[Florian Groß]

Apparenly, FileUtils.chdir doesn't take the :noop parameter anymore?
I'm working around this by just invoking FileUtils.chdir directly.

There's this in the change log:

* lib/fileutils.rb (cd): no longer accept :noop option, related
code is useless (backported from trunk, rev 1.67).
[ruby-core:05858] [ruby-Bugs:2494]

I think you are supposed to use FileUtils:ryRun somehow instead.
Haven't looked at it in detail...

 

[Jim Weirich]

IIRC I encountered this very bug some time ago, with 1.8.3. The advice I
found at the time was to switch to a beta version, 0.6.99.2, which you
can
find at: http://onestepback.org/betagems/gems/rake-0.6.99.2.gem . Since
making the switch I've encountered no such problems; I've just tried the
following Rakefile with 1.8.4:

Rake 0.6.99.2 is the release candidate for Rake 0.7.0. There is still
some documentation to be done, but I plan to finish that this week and
officially release a new version of rake.