From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-01-08T05:54:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Rake PackageTask, undefined method exitstatus

On 1/7/07, warhero <beingthexemplarylists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I am trying to get some rake tasks going. I have a package task that is
> this:
>
> Rake::PackageTask.new("deploy", ARGV[1]) do |p|
>         p.need_zip = true
>         p.name = 'rubyamf'
>         p.package_files.include("lib/**/*.*")
>         p.package_dir = "deploy"
> end
>
> when I run 'rake package 0.5.5' it creates the directories fine (deploy
> and deploy/rubyamf-0.5.5/). But then it halts and gives me an error:
>
> ........
> ........
> cd deploy
> zip -r rubyamf-0.5.5.zip rubyamf-0.5.5
> rake aborted!
> undefined method `exitstatus' for nil:NilClass
>
> Anyone have an idea what this might be from?

pretty blind guess: run with --trace and see what it will display