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spif: /Volumes/Data/repos/iloveyoutool(master) > rake -T --trace
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rack-1.3.4/lib/rack/backports/uri/common_192.rb:53: warning: already initialized constant WFKV_
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/version.rb:4: warning: already initialized constant MAJOR
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/version.rb:5: warning: already initialized constant MINOR
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/version.rb:6: warning: already initialized constant BUILD
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/version.rb:3: warning: already initialized constant NUMBERS
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/version.rb:9: warning: already initialized constant VERSION
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake.rb:26: warning: already initialized constant RAKEVERSION
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/early_time.rb:17: warning: already initialized constant EARLY
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/alt_system.rb:32: warning: already initialized constant WINDOWS
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/application.rb:28: warning: already initialized constant DEFAULT_RAKEFILES
WARNING: Possible conflict with Rake extension: String#ext already exists
WARNING: Possible conflict with Rake extension: String#pathmap already exists
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/task_arguments.rb:73: warning: already initialized constant EMPTY_TASK_ARGS
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/invocation_chain.rb:49: warning: already initialized constant EMPTY
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/file_utils.rb:10: warning: already initialized constant RUBY
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/file_utils.rb:84: warning: already initialized constant LN_SUPPORTED
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/dsl_definition.rb:143: warning: already initialized constant Commands
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/file_list.rb:44: warning: already initialized constant ARRAY_METHODS
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/file_list.rb:47: warning: already initialized constant MUST_DEFINE
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/file_list.rb:51: warning: already initialized constant MUST_NOT_DEFINE
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/file_list.rb:55: warning: already initialized constant SPECIAL_RETURN
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/file_list.rb:61: warning: already initialized constant DELEGATING_METHODS
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/file_list.rb:364: warning: already initialized constant DEFAULT_IGNORE_PATTERNS
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/file_list.rb:370: warning: already initialized constant DEFAULT_IGNORE_PROCS
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake.rb:64: warning: already initialized constant FileList
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake.rb:65: warning: already initialized constant RakeFileUtils
rake aborted!
stack level too deep
/Users/spif/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@global/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/rake_module.rb:25

I have this same issue. RVM "breaks" rake. How do you fix it?

To fix this, preappend rake commands with bundle exec.

Example:

rake db:migrate becomes bundle exec rake db:migrate

Blog Post:

http://house9.blogspot.com/2011/06/rails-31-and-ruby-192-p180-rake-aborted.html