Came across a strange error today while using Rake... I kept getting a Rake aborted! error whenever rake tried to create a distribution directory using the 'directory' command.
Additionally, rake was reporting: stopping only thread ... note: use sleep to stop forever.
(I am putting this here in case anyone is googling it, like I did).
It turns out that I was trying to have the rake file create a directory named 'dist' and the name was what was causing the problem. I think that there is a conflict with the directory name and a built-in task or something similar.
The work around?