I''m trying to create my first ever rails application.. following as closely as possible the instructions in the tutorial. I''ve created a trivial model and controller using script/generate and the tutorial recommends to run rake. When I run rake, it reports an error (which doesn''t mean much to me) : $ rake /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rake.rb:658:in `private'': undefined method `have_option?'' for class `Object'' (NameError) from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rake.rb:658 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rake.rb:657 from /usr/bin/rake:3 What does this mean? Is this a bug in rake as the error message suggests, or something subtle I''ve done wrongly in attempting to use Rails? I''m using Ruby 1.8.2 - the latest stable package for my distribution.