ruby / ruby/rake

Stack Level Too Deep in 10.4.2 Rake.application.run

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Description

I use Cruise control an was notified of failing builds on the latest update to two of my projects. The problem was a call to

bundle exec rake -v --nosearch --trace -e "Rake.application.run"

That call returned

rake aborted!
rake aborted!

So I dug a bit deeper and found that the real issue is probably:

bundle exec rake -v --nosearch --trace -e "handle_options"

rake aborted!
SystemStackError: stack level too deep

The stack level error "goes away" when using 10.3.2

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Research direction

Reproduce the reported commands with Rake 10.4.2 and compare them with 10.3.2, using the --trace output to identify where handle_options recurses. Confirm that the newer version no longer reports repeated “rake aborted!” messages or SystemStackError for these invocations.

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Assessment

Tech stack
ruby
Domain
build-system, cli
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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