[myexperiment-hackers] Bug in Rake 0.8.1

[David R Newman]

Hi All,

Just been trying to use rake to do a db:migrate on my local copy of 
myexperiment and had some problems.  I got the following error:

address@hidden:/var/svn-repos/myexp_questions$ rake db:migrate
(in /var/svn-repos/myexp_questions)
rake aborted!
undefined method `last' for {}:Hash
/var/svn-repos/myexp_questions/Rakefile:10
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

I did a web search to see if anyone else had had a similar problem and it 
turns out that it is an actually bug in Rake v0.8.1.  There is a work 
around that doesn't require removing Rake v0.8.1 as it may have 
dependencies but it requires commenting out some code that although does 
not appear vital may be so.  The workaround can be found at:

<http://groups.google.com/group/substruct/browse_thread/thread/7edeebf05d1540a6>

I am guessing that we may be using an earlier version of Rake on 
colo/tents, as the only dependencies I can see are Hoe 1.5.1 and Passenger 
1.0.1  but it is worth being aware of this problem as this version of Rake 
may be needed for Rails 2.0 if we choose to use it.

Dave Newman