RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake redmine:plugins:migrate NAME=redmine_dmsf fails

[StefanPofahl]

command:
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake redmine:plugins:migrate NAME=redmine_dmsf
fails.

Redmine installation is quite new, redmine_dmsf is the first plugin, that I try to install.
Redmine is set up according to following procedure: Redmine Installation on Debian.
Webserver is Apache2 and database is postgreSQL.

OS Debian v12 (bookworm), Redmine: 5.0.4, redmine_dmsf: v3.2.4

The command above is taken from the installation instructions.
The message output is attached below. Do you have an idea?

redmine@redmine:/usr/share/redmine$ RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake --trace redmine:plugins:migrate NAME=redmine_dmsf
** Invoke redmine:plugins:migrate (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
rake aborted!
NameError: uninitialized constant Redmine::Plugin
/usr/share/redmine/lib/plugins/redmine_dmsf/init.rb:21:in `block in <top (required)>'
/usr/share/redmine/config/initializers/00-core_plugins.rb:10:in `eval'
/usr/share/redmine/config/initializers/00-core_plugins.rb:10:in `block in <top (required)>'
/usr/share/redmine/config/initializers/00-core_plugins.rb:4:in `each'
/usr/share/redmine/config/initializers/00-core_plugins.rb:4:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-6.1.7.3/lib/rails/engine.rb:681:in `block in load_config_initializer'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/activesupport-6.1.7.3/lib/active_support/notifications.rb:205:in `instrument'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-6.1.7.3/lib/rails/engine.rb:680:in `load_config_initializer'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-6.1.7.3/lib/rails/engine.rb:634:in `block (2 levels) in <class:Engine>'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-6.1.7.3/lib/rails/engine.rb:633:in `each'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-6.1.7.3/lib/rails/engine.rb:633:in `block in <class:Engine>'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-6.1.7.3/lib/rails/initializable.rb:32:in `instance_exec'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-6.1.7.3/lib/rails/initializable.rb:32:in `run'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-6.1.7.3/lib/rails/initializable.rb:61:in `block in run_initializers'
/usr/lib/ruby/3.1.0/tsort.rb:228:in `block in tsort_each'
/usr/lib/ruby/3.1.0/tsort.rb:350:in `block (2 levels) in each_strongly_connected_component'
/usr/lib/ruby/3.1.0/tsort.rb:422:in `block (2 levels) in each_strongly_connected_component_from'
/usr/lib/ruby/3.1.0/tsort.rb:431:in `each_strongly_connected_component_from'
/usr/lib/ruby/3.1.0/tsort.rb:421:in `block in each_strongly_connected_component_from'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-6.1.7.3/lib/rails/initializable.rb:50:in `each'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-6.1.7.3/lib/rails/initializable.rb:50:in `tsort_each_child'
/usr/lib/ruby/3.1.0/tsort.rb:415:in `call'
/usr/lib/ruby/3.1.0/tsort.rb:415:in `each_strongly_connected_component_from'
/usr/lib/ruby/3.1.0/tsort.rb:349:in `block in each_strongly_connected_component'
/usr/lib/ruby/3.1.0/tsort.rb:347:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/3.1.0/tsort.rb:347:in `call'
/usr/lib/ruby/3.1.0/tsort.rb:347:in `each_strongly_connected_component'
/usr/lib/ruby/3.1.0/tsort.rb:226:in `tsort_each'
/usr/lib/ruby/3.1.0/tsort.rb:205:in `tsort_each'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-6.1.7.3/lib/rails/initializable.rb:60:in `run_initializers'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-6.1.7.3/lib/rails/application.rb:391:in `initialize!'
/usr/share/redmine/config/environment.rb:16:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/zeitwerk-2.6.1/lib/zeitwerk/kernel.rb:35:in `require'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/zeitwerk-2.6.1/lib/zeitwerk/kernel.rb:35:in `require'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-6.1.7.3/lib/rails/application.rb:367:in `require_environment!'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-6.1.7.3/lib/rails/application.rb:533:in `block in run_tasks_blocks'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:281:in `block in execute'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:281:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:281:in `execute'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:219:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:199:in `synchronize'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:199:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:243:in `block in invoke_prerequisites'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:241:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:241:in `invoke_prerequisites'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:218:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:199:in `synchronize'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:199:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/task.rb:188:in `invoke'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:160:in `invoke_task'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:116:in `block (2 levels) in top_level'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:116:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:116:in `block in top_level'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:125:in `run_with_threads'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:110:in `top_level'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:83:in `block in run'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:186:in `standard_exception_handling'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/lib/rake/application.rb:80:in `run'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/exe/rake:27:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/bin/rake:25:in `load'
/usr/bin/rake:25:in `<main>'
Tasks: TOP => redmine:plugins:migrate => environment
redmine@redmine:/usr/share/redmine$ 

[picman]

From the doc:

Plugins should be placed under /usr/share/redmine/plugins. The folder doesn't exist by default and must be created. Don't use /usr/share/redmine/lib/plugins as this result to routing error in the application.

[StefanPofahl]

@picman
Thanks for the clarification :-) Here my experience:

First defined environment variables $REDMINE_HOME & $REDMINE_PLUGINS
in ~/.bashrc
#######

[...]
# ### Add other environment variables #########################
# ## Variable REDMINE_HOME is equal to the folder which contains the file `config.ru`, `Rakefile`, `Gemfile`
export REDMINE_HOME="/usr/share/redmine"
# ## Variable REDMINE_PLUGINS is below $REDMINE_HOME
export REDMINE_PLUGINS="/usr/share/redmine/plugins"
[...]

#######
restart bash / CLI
#######

mv /home/redmine/Downloads/redmine_dmsf-3.2.4 /home/redmine/Downloads/redmine_dmsf
mkdir -p $REDMINE_PLUGINS/redmine_dmsf
cp -r /home/redmine/Downloads/redmine_dmsf $REDMINE_PLUGINS

#######
cd $REDMINE_HOME
bundle install
#######

And this is part of the output:

[...]
Following files may not be writable, so sudo is needed:
  /usr/local/bin
  /var/lib/gems/3.1.0
  /var/lib/gems/3.1.0/build_info
  /var/lib/gems/3.1.0/cache
  /var/lib/gems/3.1.0/doc
  /var/lib/gems/3.1.0/extensions
  /var/lib/gems/3.1.0/gems
  /var/lib/gems/3.1.0/plugins
  /var/lib/gems/3.1.0/specifications

[...]
Your user account isn't allowed to install to the system RubyGems.
  You can cancel this installation and run:

      bundle config set --local path 'vendor/bundle'
      bundle install

  to install the gems into ./vendor/bundle/, or you can enter your password
  and install the bundled gems to RubyGems using sudo.

[...]

An error occurred while installing xapian-ruby (1.4.22), and Bundler cannot continue.

In Gemfile:
  xapian-ruby
Bundler::InstallError: Bundler::SudoNotPermittedError: Bundler requires sudo access to install at the moment.
Try installing again, granting Bundler sudo access when prompted, or installing into a different path.

[...]
An error occurred while installing xapian-ruby (1.4.22), and Bundler cannot continue.

In Gemfile:
  xapian-ruby
[...]

If I run as root (what is not recommended), the error message is much shorter:
#######

root@redmine:/usr/share/redmine# bundle install
There was an error accessing `/usr/share/redmine/.bundle/config`.
The underlying system error is Errno::EISDIR: Is a directory @ io_fread - /usr/share/redmine/.bundle/config

Creating / Re-Creating the folder does not help :-(

root@redmine:/usr/share/redmine# rm -Rf /usr/share/redmine/.bundle
root@redmine:/usr/share/redmine# rm -Rf /usr/share/redmine/.bundle/config
root@redmine:/usr/share/redmine# mkdir /usr/share/redmine/.bundle
root@redmine:/usr/share/redmine# mkdir /usr/share/redmine/.bundle/config

Any ideas? Is this an issue outside the package redmine_dmfs?

[picman]

I run Redmine on many Debian instances and would recommend you not following Debian installation but installing it according to Redmine's installation steps - https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineInstall
You will save time and avoid many problems.

[StefanPofahl]

Thanks for the immediate response! I will give it try, but this may have to wait some time ...

Off-topic:
There is a typo in your installation instruction (4.1 In production environment), that is fatal for new-comers:

bundle config set --local without 'development test`

the last character is char 96, but it should be char 39

regards,
Stefan

[picman]

You're right. Fixed.

[StefanPofahl]

Off-Topic but related and a consequence of my trial to install redmine_dmfs.

If you see the message: xapian-ruby missing or similar on a Debian system try as root:

su
cd $REDMINE_HOME
apt install -y zlib1g-dev
gem install xapian-ruby

[StefanPofahl]

After installation of two other packages on Debian:

su
cd $REDMINE_HOME
apt install -y libssl-dev libpq-dev

I can execute the installation instruction up to the command:

RAILS_ENV="production" bundle exec rake assets:precompile

The message is:

Don't know how to build task 'assets:precompile' (See the list of available tasks with `rake --tasks`)

And

rake --tasks | grep precompile

Gives no output. Any ideas, what could be wrong?

[picman]

Do you run it from the redmine folder? What says bundle exec rake --tasks?

[StefanPofahl]

Again thanks for your kind support!!! :-)

I had a look on the official manual redmine installation you mentioned above, but this is for experts.
It starts already with the comment / recommendation:
Important : don't forget to restart the application after any change.
But no word how to do that.
I like the idea of an installation, that people like me can handle.

I understand the the command rake and bundle should be performed as standard user (is this correct?),
but I gave up, I tried a lot to manipulate the access rights to the files and folders that are mentioned each time I failed with a bundle command as standard user, therefore I added my standard user to the sudoers-group.

Now to your question, I give the command in the $REDMINE_HOME directory, here is the output I see:

redmine@redmine:/usr/share/redmine$ sudo bundle exec rake --tasks
rake about                                       # List versions of all Rails frameworks and the environment
rake app:template                                # Applies the template supplied by LOCATION=(/path/to/template) or URL
rake app:update                                  # Update configs and some other initially generated files (or use just update:configs or upd...
rake cache_digests:dependencies                  # Lookup first-level dependencies for TEMPLATE (like messages/show or comments/_comment.html)
rake cache_digests:nested_dependencies           # Lookup nested dependencies for TEMPLATE (like messages/show or comments/_comment.html)
rake ci                                          # Run the Continuous Integration tests for Redmine
rake ci:about                                    # Display info about the build environment
rake ci:build                                    # Build Redmine
rake ci:setup                                    # Setup Redmine for a new build
rake ci:teardown                                 # Finish the build
rake config/database.yml                         # Creates database.yml for the CI server
rake config/initializers/secret_token.rb         # Generates a secret token for the application
rake db:create                                   # Creates the database from DATABASE_URL or config/database.yml for the current RAILS_ENV (u...
rake db:decrypt                                  # Decrypts SCM and LDAP passwords in the database
rake db:drop                                     # Drops the database from DATABASE_URL or config/database.yml for the current RAILS_ENV (use...
rake db:encrypt                                  # Encrypts SCM and LDAP passwords in the database
rake db:environment:set                          # Set the environment value for the database
rake db:fixtures:load                            # Loads fixtures into the current environment's database
rake db:migrate                                  # Migrate the database (options: VERSION=x, VERBOSE=false, SCOPE=blog)
rake db:migrate:down                             # Runs the "down" for a given migration VERSION
rake db:migrate:redo                             # Rolls back the database one migration and re-migrates up (options: STEP=x, VERSION=x)
rake db:migrate:status                           # Display status of migrations
rake db:migrate:up                               # Runs the "up" for a given migration VERSION
rake db:prepare                                  # Runs setup if database does not exist, or runs migrations if it does
rake db:reset                                    # Drops and recreates the database from db/schema.rb for the current environment and loads t...
rake db:rollback                                 # Rolls the schema back to the previous version (specify steps w/ STEP=n)
rake db:schema:cache:clear                       # Clears a db/schema_cache.yml file
rake db:schema:cache:dump                        # Creates a db/schema_cache.yml file
rake db:schema:dump                              # Creates a database schema file (either db/schema.rb or db/structure.sql, depending on `con...
rake db:schema:load                              # Loads a database schema file (either db/schema.rb or db/structure.sql, depending on `confi...
rake db:seed                                     # Loads the seed data from db/seeds.rb
rake db:seed:replant                             # Truncates tables of each database for current environment and loads the seeds
rake db:setup                                    # Creates the database, loads the schema, and initializes with the seed data (use db:reset t...
rake db:structure:dump                           # Dumps the database structure to db/structure.sql
rake db:structure:load                           # Recreates the databases from the structure.sql file
rake db:version                                  # Retrieves the current schema version number
rake extract_fixtures                            # Create YAML test fixtures from data in an existing database
rake generate_secret_token                       # Generates a secret token for the application
rake locales                                     # Updates and checks locales against en.yml
rake locales:add_key                             # Adds a new top-level translation string to all locale file (only works for childless keys,...
rake locales:check_interpolation                 # Checks interpolation arguments in locals against en.yml
rake locales:dup                                 # Duplicates a key
rake locales:remove_key                          # Removes a translation string from all locale file (only works for top-level childless non-...
rake locales:update                              # Updates language files based on en.yml content (only works for new top level keys)
rake log:clear                                   # Truncates all/specified *.log files in log/ to zero bytes (specify which logs with LOGS=te...
rake middleware                                  # Prints out your Rack middleware stack
rake redmine:attachments:move_to_subdirectories  # Moves attachments stored at the root of the file directory (ie
rake redmine:attachments:prune                   # Removes uploaded files left unattached after one day
rake redmine:attachments:update_digests          # Updates attachment digests to SHA256
rake redmine:dmsf_alert_approvals                # Alert all users who are expected to do an approval in the current approval steps
rake redmine:dmsf_convert_documents              # Convert projects' Documents to DMSF folder/file structure
rake redmine:dmsf_create_digests                 # DMSF maintenance task
rake redmine:dmsf_maintenance                    # DMSF maintenance task
rake redmine:dmsf_webdav_test_on                 # DMSF WebDAV test task
rake redmine:email:read                          # Read an email from standard input
rake redmine:email:receive_imap                  # Read emails from an IMAP server
rake redmine:email:receive_pop3                  # Read emails from an POP3 server
rake redmine:email:test[login]                   # Send a test email to the user with the provided login name
rake redmine:fetch_changesets                    # Fetch changesets from the repositories
rake redmine:load_default_data                   # Load Redmine default configuration data
rake redmine:migrate_dbms                        # FOR EXPERIMENTAL USE ONLY, Moves Redmine data from production database to the development ...
rake redmine:migrate_from_mantis                 # Mantis migration script
rake redmine:migrate_from_trac                   # Trac migration script
rake redmine:permissions                         # List all permissions and the actions registered with them
rake redmine:plugins                             # Migrates and copies plugins assets
rake redmine:plugins:assets                      # Copies plugins assets into the public directory
rake redmine:plugins:migrate                     # Migrates installed plugins
rake redmine:plugins:test                        # Runs the plugins tests
rake redmine:plugins:test:functionals            # Runs the plugins functional tests
rake redmine:plugins:test:integration            # Runs the plugins integration tests
rake redmine:plugins:test:system                 # Runs the plugins system tests
rake redmine:plugins:test:ui                     # Runs the plugins ui tests
rake redmine:plugins:test:units                  # Runs the plugins unit tests
rake redmine:send_reminders                      # Send reminders about issues due in the next days
rake redmine:tokens:prune                        # Removes expired tokens
rake redmine:users:prune                         # Removes registered users that have not been activated after a number of days
rake redmine:watchers:prune                      # Removes watchers from what they can no longer view
rake restart                                     # Restart app by touching tmp/restart.txt
rake secret                                      # Generate a cryptographically secure secret key (this is typically used to generate a secre...
rake stats                                       # Report code statistics (KLOCs, etc) from the application or engine
rake test                                        # Runs all tests in test folder except system ones
rake test:all                                    # Runs all tests, including system tests
rake test:coverage                               # Measures test coverage
rake test:db                                     # Run tests quickly, but also reset db
rake test:routing                                # Run the routing tests
rake test:scm                                    # Run unit and functional scm tests
rake test:scm:functionals                        # Run the scm functional tests
rake test:scm:setup:all                          # Creates all test repositories
rake test:scm:setup:bazaar                       # Creates a test bazaar repository
rake test:scm:setup:create_dir                   # Creates directory for test repositories
rake test:scm:setup:cvs                          # Creates a test cvs repository
rake test:scm:setup:filesystem                   # Creates a test filesystem repository
rake test:scm:setup:git                          # Creates a test git repository
rake test:scm:setup:git_utf8                     # Creates a test git_utf8 repository
rake test:scm:setup:mercurial                    # Creates a test mercurial repository
rake test:scm:setup:subversion                   # Creates a test subversion repository
rake test:scm:units                              # Run the scm unit tests
rake test:scm:update                             # Updates installed test repositories
rake test:system                                 # Run system tests only
rake time:zones[country_or_offset]               # List all time zones, list by two-letter country code (`bin/rails time:zones[US]`), or list...
rake tmp:clear                                   # Clear cache, socket and screenshot files from tmp/ (narrow w/ tmp:cache:clear, tmp:sockets...
rake tmp:create                                  # Creates tmp directories for cache, sockets, and pids
rake yarn:install                                # Install all JavaScript dependencies as specified via Yarn
rake zeitwerk:check                              # Checks project structure for Zeitwerk compatibility
redmine@redmine:/usr/share/redmine$ 

[picman]

You can omit RAILS_ENV="production" bundle exec rake assets:precompile. It should work without that.
Concerning the installation. It depends on the web server. For example with apache. Put the application into /var/www/redmine. There run all installation steps as root, via sudo. At the end, change the permissions to the web user: sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/redmine and restart the application using restarting the web server: systemctl restart apache2