This finally fixed it:
sudo gem uninstall rake -v 0.9.0
Thank you, http://rubygems.org/gems/rake/versions/0.8.7
...but presumably chiliproject won't work?
Dunno, the new rake seems to break everything for everybody, so getting rid of it is good...
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