Rails - Mar 2006 - rake fails on build server, but not in development

I''m working in a development environment of Mac OS X with MySQL, and a 
production deployment environment of Redhat with Oracle XE.  In the 
course of setting up a new continuous build server that more closely 
mimics our production environment, I got stuck on the following 
strangeness on the build server (Linux, Oracle).

1.  rake fails
2.  rake test_units works
3.  rake test_functional works

We''ve reduced the problem down to a simple fault by using --trace ... I
can see that "purge_test_database" does not happen between test_units 
and test_functional when a complete rake is done, and the database has a 
bunch of stuff in it from the unit tests, so it is not blank to start 
for the functional tests.

So, I am confused.  We have a complete match of Ruby and Gem versions 
between development and build.  Why is this behaving so differently?  Is 
this a platform difference (Mac vs Linux) or a database difference 
(MySQL vs Oracle)?

I''m sure there is probably a simple work-around, but where should I 
start?

Lori

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Lori Olson wrote:
> I''m sure there is probably a simple work-around, but where should
I
> start?
> 
Ok, I think I know what needs to be done, I just can''t seem to make it 
work.  For my Rails application, when I go "rake", it executes a 
"default" task (which seems to come from a Rails file called
misc.rake),
which in turn invokes the "test_units" and "test_functional"
tasks.

What I need to do is to override that "default" task, and make it
invoke
the "purge_test_database" task in between the invocations of 
"test_units" and "test_functional".

I''ve tried creating a myapp.rake file under lib/tasks, with a
"default"
task, but it does not get called when I do a "rake".

What am I doing wrong?

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Lori Olson wrote:
> So, I am confused.  We have a complete match of Ruby and Gem versions 
> between development and build.  Why is this behaving so differently?  Is 
> this a platform difference (Mac vs Linux) or a database difference 
> (MySQL vs Oracle)?
Continuing to narrow this down.  Running from a Mac against the Oracle 
on the Linux machine... and rake fails.  Running from a Mac against the 
same version of Oracle on a Windows machine... and rake works.

So it seems to be an "Oracle on Linux" problem.

Is anyone else running with Oracle XE on Linux having rake problems?

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