Same issue here. Rake fails and sinatra server never starts.

See above my reply to original reporter.

I suspect the "rake" command does not match the "gem" command you uses to install the gems. That error is literally rake not finding the Ralex gem.

Yup, that was what I did. But just to be sure, I blew away the root dir and tried again (and I tried again after fixing the PATH issue, no difference):

mike@mike-linux:~/Downloads/flint-1.0$ pwd
/home/mike/Downloads/flint-1.0
mike@mike-linux:~/Downloads/flint-1.0$ gem install ./matasano_utils-0.1.gem
WARNING:  Installing to ~/.gem since /var/lib/gems/1.9.1 and
          /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/bin aren't both writable.
WARNING:  You don't have /home/mike/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/bin in your PATH,
          gem executables will not run.
Successfully installed matasano_utils-0.1
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for matasano_utils-0.1...
Updating class cache with 333 classes...
Installing RDoc documentation for matasano_utils-0.1...
mike@mike-linux:~/Downloads/flint-1.0$ gem install ./matasano_utils-0.1.gem
WARNING:  Installing to ~/.gem since /var/lib/gems/1.9.1 and
          /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/bin aren't both writable.
WARNING:  You don't have /home/mike/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/bin in your PATH,
          gem executables will not run.
Successfully installed matasano_utils-0.1
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for matasano_utils-0.1...
Updating class cache with 333 classes...
Installing RDoc documentation for matasano_utils-0.1...
mike@mike-linux:~/Downloads/flint-1.0$ rake init --trace
(in /home/mike/Downloads/flint-1.0)
rake aborted!
no such file to load -- ralex/ralextask.rb
/home/mike/Downloads/flint-1.0/rakefile.rb:1:in `require'
/home/mike/Downloads/flint-1.0/rakefile.rb:1
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:2359:in `load'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:2359:in `raw_load_rakefile'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:1993:in `load_rakefile'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:2044:in `standard_exception_handling'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:1992:in `load_rakefile'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:1976:in `run'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:2044:in `standard_exception_handling'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:1974:in `run'
/usr/bin/rake:28
mike@mike-linux:~/Downloads/flint-1.0$ ls
app  checks  COPYING  doc  lib  matasano_utils-0.1.gem  rakefile.rb  Ralex-0.1.gem  README  script  spec

Please note:

From your gem install
> WARNING: Installing to ~/.gem since /var/lib/gems/1.9.1 and > /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/bin aren't both writable. > WARNING: You don't have /home/mike/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/bin in your PATH,

That indicated your "gem" program is from your 1.9 ruby

From your "rake" run:
> /home/mike/Downloads/flint-1.0/rakefile.rb:1:in require' > /home/mike/Downloads/flint-1.0/rakefile.rb:1 > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:2359:inload'

Rake is running your 1.8 ruby install.

That is evidence that your gem is from 1.9 and your ruby is 1.8

Please bare with me, I'm not a ruby guy. I fixed the symlink that was calling ruby 1.8 and told it to call 1.9:

mike@mike-linux:~/Downloads/flint-1.0$ rake init --trace
(in /home/mike/Downloads/flint-1.0)
rake aborted!
no such file to load -- ralex/ralextask.rb
/home/mike/Downloads/flint-1.0/rakefile.rb:1:in `require'
/home/mike/Downloads/flint-1.0/rakefile.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:2341:in `load'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:2341:in `raw_load_rakefile'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:1977:in `block in load_rakefile'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:2028:in `standard_exception_handling'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:1976:in `load_rakefile'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:1961:in `block in run'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:2028:in `standard_exception_handling'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:1959:in `run'
/usr/bin/rake:28:in `<main>'

Is this ubuntu?

It could be that your ruby does not put your gem directories in it's ruby library path. try putting:

require 'rubygems'

at the top of rakefile.rb.

If that works, then we'll need to add that to app/app.rb and script/init.rb and a bunch of other places as well.

Yup, it's ubuntu. That didn't seem to help:

mike@mike-linux:~/Downloads/flint-1.0$ head rakefile.rb
require 'ralex/ralextask.rb'
require 'rubygems'







mike@mike-linux:~/Downloads/flint-1.0$ rake init --trace
(in /home/mike/Downloads/flint-1.0)
rake aborted!
no such file to load -- ralex/ralextask.rb
/home/mike/Downloads/flint-1.0/rakefile.rb:1:in require'
/home/mike/Downloads/flint-1.0/rakefile.rb:1:in<top (required)>'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:2341:in load'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:2341:inraw_load_rakefile'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:1977:in block in load_rakefile'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:2028:instandard_exception_handling'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:1976:in load_rakefile'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:1961:inblock in run'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:2028:in standard_exception_handling'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:1959:inrun'
/usr/bin/rake:28:in &lt;main&gt;'</code>
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Yah gotta make it the first line.

That loads up the rubygems lib, and that should add your personal .gems subdirs to the path.

I bet that is it BTW. Apparently the OSX ruby puts them in the path by default, which is why I didn't catch this earlier. I've fixed this in the git repo already.

I had a different source to the same error (rake init failed). Turns out I had multiple copies of ruby. Running "which ruby" and "which gem" to make sure both looked sane (and some additional use of 'locate' to verify), I re-did the setup from the start. The only change I had to make was to also run 'gem install ruby-debug' for it all to work.

So in total, I did the following, which worked out once I realized my path was ordered to grab the macports-installed ruby over the system's ruby, which I fixed:

git clone http://runplaybook.com/git/flint.git

cd flint/

gem install sinatra haml ohm rdiscount compass bcrypt-ruby ruby-debug ./*.gem

(install redis - on my mac with macports already present, # port selfupdate && port install redis)

redis-server & rake init & rake app

ack! hash doesn't show up correctly. Sorry for all the headings there...

Oooookay, got it to start.

I removed the ruby1.9.1 packages (including 1.9.1 gem) and made sure to have all the ruby1.8 (turns out on ubuntu you need the right ruby-dev package too, to install gem modules).

I did a fresh clone from git (which has the new require statements).

I made sure my path was right.

I wiped my old $HOME/.gem

And rake --init works now. For grins, I removed the "require 'rubygems'" from rakefile.rb just to make sure that was the problem, and sure enough, rake won't start without that line.

Thanks for the help!