problem building doodle.js

[furtivefelon]

Hi,

I'm new to ruby, so i'm not sure where the problem lies. When i try to build doodle.js, i get this:
[javascript/doodle.js]$ /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/rake build --trace
(in /home/jason/sources/javascript/doodle.js)
rake aborted!
undefined method path' for File:Class /home/jason/sources/javascript/doodle.js/Rakefile:3 /home/jason/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2383:inload'
/home/jason/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2383:in raw_load_rakefile' /home/jason/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2017:inload_rakefile'
/home/jason/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:in standard_exception_handling' /home/jason/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2016:inload_rakefile'
/home/jason/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2000:in run' /home/jason/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:instandard_exception_handling'
/home/jason/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:1998:in run' /home/jason/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/bin/rake:31 /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/rake:19:inload'
/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/rake:19

If i try to call File.path in irb, i also get the same error:
[javascript/doodle.js]$ irb
irb(main):001:0> File.path
NoMethodError: undefined method `path' for File:Class
from (irb):1

If there is any help you can provide, it would be much appreciated!

[lamberta]

Hi.
I'm not much of a ruby guy either but I found rake a better build environment to make.

I think the issue is that you may need to use Ruby 1.9:
http://ruby-doc.org/ruby-1.9/classes/File.html#M000278

But looking at the Ruby 1.8 docs, it looks like if you add: require 'ftools' - then that will bring in the File.path method.
http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/File.html

Hopefully that helps.

[furtivefelon]

Upgrading to 1.9 sidesteps this problem completely. Although the 1.8 tip did not work for me, it still gives me wierd errors.