script/console LoadError

[ThetaWaveRider]

Hello,

When I enter the command "ruby script/console", instead of an irb
session beginning, I get the following error:

c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in 
'require__': No such file to load -- 
./script/../config/../config/environment (LoadError)

This occurs in any rails project I create.

I'm a little new to Rails, but it appears to me that the path to the
required file is incorrect. The 'environment.rb' file is inside the
config folder, which is a sibling to the script folder, while the error
states that rails is looking for a config folder that is two levels up
from the script folder.

Since Rails runs on a 'convention not configuration' methodology, it isn't clear where I can make a change to fix this. It seems like Rails should be looking in './script/../config/environment' by default instead. Any ideas?

For reference, I'm running Rails 1.1.2 w/ Ruby 1.8.2 on an win32 machine
(for development).

Thanks,
Aaron

[Fenrir2]

Try "rake freeze_edge", it helps sometimes to have the latest version.

Isn't this: ./script/../config/../config/environment the same as this: ./config/environment ?

[ThetaWaveRider]

From what I gather, "rake freeze_edge" would put me on the latest bleeding edge version instead of the latest stable version. Since I'm guessing that the console works well for others on the version I am, I'd like to try to solve this another way first.

Re: the path, there is a difference - the former starts in the script directory, moves up a directory and over to the config directory, then up a directory again and over to another config directory; while the latter points to the config directory inside the starting directory (which actually does reference the correct location).

The latter would work, but this is not a path I should have to enter. Rails is supposed to know where to look to start the console without me having to tell it where the config/environment file is - and this it does not appear to be doing.

Thanks,
Aaron

[Fenrir2]

1. ./script/../config/../config/environment - ./ ("root" directory)
2. ./script/../config/../config/environment - ./script
3. ./script/../config/../config/environment - ./ (again)
4. ./script/../config/../config/environment - ./config
5../script/../config/../config/environment - ./
6. ./script/../config/../config/environment - ./config
7. ./script/../config/../config/environment - ./config/environment

Or am I wrong?

Maybe the problem is that you need environment.rb, and not just environment...I don't know if require automatically looks for environment.rb too?