I'm afraid the easier solution is running this command instead of rake db:migrate.
I've been running into this issue too. It doesn't seem to be related to the specific versions of rails or ruby you mention, which are different than the ones I'm using (Rails 2.3.8, Rake 0.8.7, Ruby 1.9.1p378). It seems to be related to bundler and rake not working well together.
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