Redmine

Hi there,
I have been using Redmine for a little while and find it great (especially the integration with MyLin and Eclipse)...

This was all fun and good to the point where I (possibly stupidly) tried to upgrade my install...

Redmine failed to upgrade and spit out the following:

Paramétrage de redmine (1.2.1-1~maverick+4) ...
dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/redmine/instances/default.conf

Creating config file /etc/redmine/default/database.yml.new with new version
dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password
Populating database for redmine instance "default".
This may take a while.
rake aborted!
undefined method `autoload_paths' for #<Rails::Configuration:0xb73ba0f8>

(See full trace by running task with --trace)
Error when running rake db:migrate, check database configuration.
exit: 283: Illegal number: -1
dpkg : erreur de traitement de redmine (--configure) :
 le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 2
Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
 redmine
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Obviously the redmine page does not show anymore and I do have a Passeneger error page instead (with the same error).

When I run RAILS_ENV=YOUR_ENVIRONMENT script/about I get the following (which does not look good):

/usr/share/redmine/config/environment.rb:32: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
        from /usr/share/redmine/vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/about.rb:1
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
        from script/about:4

rails -v told me that I had 2.3.5 installed and I tried to install 2.3.11 (gem install rails -v 2.3.11), rails -v still say 2.3.5, but it 2.3.11 is in the list of local gems now....

As you may have understood, I know nothing about Ruby or Rails....

Unsurprisingly, trying to run the app from command line fails the same way.

sudo ruby script/server
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 2.3.5 application starting on http://127.0.0.1:3000
/usr/share/redmine/config/environment.rb:52: undefined method `autoload_paths' for #<Rails::Configuration:0xb7554558> (NoMethodError)
        from /usr/share/redmine/config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:111:in `run'
        from /usr/share/redmine/config/environment.rb:45
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in `require'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:in `new_constants_in'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in `require'
        from /usr/share/redmine/vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/server.rb:84
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
        from script/server:3

Ah and finally, my gems (no idea what this means, but I read that I shall provide this).

actionmailer (2.3.11)
actionpack (2.3.11)
activerecord (2.3.11)
activeresource (2.3.11)
activesupport (2.3.11)
rack (1.1.2)
rails (2.3.11)
rake (0.9.2)

Your help is welcome.

Many thanks in advance.

Jean-Michel