I had this exact problem for the last few weeks on a side project I've been working on. The answer only became clear to me when I ran rake db:migrate with --trace. Once there I noticed that the stack trace was complaining about factory_girl not being able to instantiate the missing table item.
I just encountered this same problem. Rake db:create would work, but running anything else, like rake db:schema:load or rake db:migrate, failed with an error about a missing table. Chris Hein's answer pointed me in the right direction.
The missing table was being referenced in the specs, and for some reason they were being loaded as part of the environment before the rake tasks were running. I just moved the specs folder, ran the rake tasks, and the moved it back.
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