ERROR: 'rake/rdoctask' is obsolete and no longer supported. Use 'rdoc/task' (available in RDoc 2.4.2+) instead

Question

Seems the last post for this problem was closed for one reason or another so I\'ll try my luck...

I\'m trying to run a simple \"rake db:migrate\" command. When I do,

Answer 1

I had to fix this while not breaking on places that have old rake but not rdoc installed. I added a begin...rescue clause:

begin
  require 'rake/rdoctask'
rescue
  require 'rdoc/task'
end