[BUILDR-245] Converting a maven project fails with "Internal error: Called Buildr.settings before buildfile located"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.3
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.4
• Environment: Linux, Fedora 10, ruby-1.8.6
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Martin Grotzke
• Created: 09/Feb/09 02:37
• Updated: 22/Jun/11 10:10
• Resolved: 13/Mar/09 03:30

Description

Just copied from the posting on the mailing list:

I just tried to create a buildfile from a maven project.

Unfortunately this fails (even for the simplest mvn project created via
the mvn archetype feature) with the message

Internal error: Called Buildr.settings before buildfile located

(see the complete output below)

I found a posting on this mailing list with the same issue ([1]). The
author wrote, that he can work around the problem when he removes the
line that throws this error (fail "Internal error: Called...").

This does also work for me, but now I wonder what's the final solution
for this issue.

Here are the steps to reproduce the issue:
1) Create a simple maven project:
$ mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=org.example -DartifactId=hello-buildr
2) Change to the created directory
$ cd hello-buildr
3) Invoke buildr
$ buildr
-> "To use Buildr you need a buildfile. Do you want me to create one?"
4) Choose option 1 ("From maven2 pom file")

This fails with the following output:

[Failed] Your build failed with an error: /:
Internal error: Called Buildr.settings before buildfile located
buildr aborted!
Internal error: Called Buildr.settings before buildfile located
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/buildr-1.3.3/lib/buildr/core/application.rb:152:in `expand_path': can't convert nil into String (TypeError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/buildr-1.3.3/lib/buildr/core/application.rb:152:in `buildfile'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/buildr-1.3.3/lib/buildr/core/application.rb:337:in `standard_exception_handling'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/buildr-1.3.3/lib/buildr/core/application.rb:337:in `select'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/buildr-1.3.3/lib/buildr/core/application.rb:337:in `standard_exception_handling'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/buildr-1.3.3/lib/buildr/core/application.rb:161:in `run'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/buildr-1.3.3/bin/buildr:20
from /usr/bin/buildr:19:in `load'
from /usr/bin/buildr:19

Cheers,
Martin

[1] http://www.nabble.com/Buildr.settings-before-buildfile-located-td19890817.html