Looking at Rails for the first time...

[Steve [RubyTalk]]

I'm trying to create my first ever rails application.. following as
closely as possible the instructions in the tutorial. I've created a
trivial model and controller using script/generate and the tutorial
recommends to run rake. When I run rake, it reports an error (which
doesn't mean much to me) :

$ rake
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rake.rb:658:in `private': undefined method
`have_option?' for class `Object' (NameError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rake.rb:658
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rake.rb:657
from /usr/bin/rake:3

What does this mean? Is this a bug in rake as the error message
suggests, or something subtle I've done wrongly in attempting to use Rails?

 

[Eric Hodel]

I'm trying to create my first ever rails application.. following as
closely as possible the instructions in the tutorial. I've created
a trivial model and controller using script/generate and the
tutorial recommends to run rake. When I run rake, it reports an
error (which doesn't mean much to me) :

$ rake
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rake.rb:658:in `private': undefined
method `have_option?' for class `Object' (NameError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rake.rb:658
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rake.rb:657
from /usr/bin/rake:3

What does this mean? Is this a bug in rake as the error message
suggests, or something subtle I've done wrongly in attempting to
use Rails?

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