Most of the times when you run your rails commands in your console you end up getting recursive and un-ended errors and finally aborts as a STACK LEVEL TOO DEEP error isn't it?

Don't fret, this happens when the RAKE goes conky in 0.9.2 version. Most of the times you will see the below types of errors

WARNING: DSL method Object#ruby called at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/file_utils_ext.rb:36 in 'ruby'

or

RAKE:DSL error

or

uninitialized constant Rake::DSL

or

undefined method `task' for #<MyApp::Application:0x9223b6c>


or

any other error which makes your RAKE to abort or throws any DSL errors.

For all these see the following solutions which you might want to consider to fix them and get them working

Solution 1:

Open your Rake file and modify

require 'rake'

to

require 'rake/dsl_definition'
require 'rake'

Solution 2:

In the same Rake file modify the following

YourAPP::Application.load_tasks

to

module ::YourAPP
  class Application
    include Rake::DSL
  end
end

module ::RakeFileUtils
  extend Rake::FileUtilsExt
end

YourAPP::Application.load_tasks

Solution 3:

If you are running any console tasks with rake or rails, then run it with the bundler

e.g.

rake db:migrate  should be bundle exec rake db:migrate

rake specs should be bundle exec rake specs

and so on....

These 3 solutions will solve your rake and dsl problems.

Cheers....

Satish N Kota