Issue #1010 has been updated by Luis Lavena. Yes, this is already been discussed in Rake mailing list and a workaround the broken system() call was addressed. http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rake-devel/2008-November/000673.html I believe Jim Weirich needs to bring those changes back into the repository. ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1010 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org