Sam Pierson's Blog » rake http://sampierson.com/blog Augmentation of an Imperfect Memory. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:41:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Colon confuses custom_require (well an ancestor anyway) http://sampierson.com/blog/software-development/colon-confuses-custom_require-well-an-ancestor-anyway/ http://sampierson.com/blog/software-development/colon-confuses-custom_require-well-an-ancestor-anyway/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:27:55 +0000 sam http://sampierson.com/blog/?p=218 I just started work on an existing project.  Rake would not run and kept dying with “no such file to load — ” exceptions in rubygems/custom_require.rb for files in a vendor/plugin/<foo>/lib folder.

It turns out that when I checked out the source from Subversion with:

svn co https://<hostname>:<portnumber>

It created a folder called <hostname>:<portnumber>

The colon in the path was confusing custom_require or one of its ancestors.  After renaming the folder, rake started working.

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