rake task says "define INLINEDIR or HOME in your environment and try again, how do i fix this?

Question

I am running a rake task in rails 2 I have it called from an /etc/init.d/ ruby script.

at start up it tells me define INLINEDIR or HOME in your environment and try again It works fine once I Log in, but not if I run unset home first

it doesn't matter what task I try to call it says that no matter what.

While I could define HOME in that file, I don't know what INLINEDIR is and if I should do that instead, or why this matters in the first place.. Has anyone encountered this problem, know more about it and can point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

i had to add a ENV["HOME"] = '/root' line into the calling script and it worked fine

very odd, found no reason what caused this or anything