title: ruby rake utility on the command line
body: <p>So I am very new to Ruby, but I have written a few rake files to get the hang of things, and they worked perfectly well. Fast forward through a vacation, and now I can't get them to run at all, even the most basic rake file that only contains a 'put'</p>
  
  <p>I am only running the rake utility on the command line, in the same directory as my rake file, yet I am dogged by a 'No Rakefile found' error.</p>
  
  <p>My Internet research repeatedly says to make sure you're in your application directory, but as far as I can tell, I have not made an app.</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Users\me\.rake&gt;rake mytask --trace
  No Rakefile found (looking for: rakefile, Rakefile, rakefile.rb, Rakefile.rb)
  C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:495:in `raw_
  load_rakefile'
  C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:82:in `block
   in load_rakefile'
  C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:133:in `stan
  dard_exception_handling'
  C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:81:in `load_
  rakefile'
  C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:65:in `block
   in run'
  C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:133:in `stan
  dard_exception_handling'
  C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:63:in `run'
  C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/bin/rake:33:in `&lt;top (required)&gt;'
  C:/Ruby192/bin/rake:19:in `load'
  C:/Ruby192/bin/rake:19:in `&lt;main&gt;'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>