rake undefined exitstatus in nil:Nilclass

Question

I am trying to run rake on a new machine (original machine works fine) . . after running my this i get an error saying . .

rake aborted undefined method exitstatus for nil:nilClass

any suggestions for how i could see whats going on here?

Answer 1

Start with rake --trace

Answer 2

I figured it out . . stupid mistake . . i was running from command prompt.. not VS command prompt so it didn't recognize msbuild task