Looks like there may be a problem with Rake 0.6.2 and Ruby 1.8.4. If I have a task that uses either chdir or cd, I get an error: rake aborted! no such option: noop /Users/jamis/ruby184/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1422:in `fu_check_options' /Users/jamis/ruby184/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:119:in `cd' /Users/jamis/ruby184/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.6.2/lib/rake.rb: 640:in `cd' ./rakefile:67 Apparenly, FileUtils.chdir doesn't take the :noop parameter anymore? I'm working around this by just invoking FileUtils.chdir directly. - Jamis