Merely having drake installed breaks gem installs that use rake-compiler

[FooBarWidget]

Reproducible case: https://github.com/FooBarWidget/drake-break-rake-compiler

Download the gem: https://github.com/FooBarWidget/drake-break-rake-compiler/releases/download/v1.0.0/drake-break-rake-compiler-1.0.0.gem

Installing the gem fails:

Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing drake-break-rake-compiler-1.0.0.gem:
	ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    current directory: /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/drake-break-rake-compiler-1.0.0/ext
/Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/bin/ruby -rrubygems /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/rake-13.2.1/exe/rake RUBYARCHDIR\=/Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/extensions/x86_64-darwin-23/3.3.0/drake-break-rake-compiler-1.0.0 RUBYLIBDIR\=/Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/extensions/x86_64-darwin-23/3.3.0/drake-break-rake-compiler-1.0.0
#<Thread:0x000000010f450320 /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/drake-0.9.2.0.3.1/lib/rake/multi_task.rb:10 run> terminated with exception (report_on_exception is true):
/Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/3.3.0/fileutils.rb:365:in `mkdir_p': wrong number of arguments (given 2, expected 1) (ArgumentError)
	from /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/drake-0.9.2.0.3.1/lib/rake/file_utils_ext.rb:33:in `mkdir_p'
	from /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/drake-0.9.2.0.3.1/lib/rake/dsl_definition.rb:61:in `block (2 levels) in directory'
	from /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/drake-0.9.2.0.3.1/lib/rake/task.rb:227:in `block in execute'
	from /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/drake-0.9.2.0.3.1/lib/rake/task.rb:224:in `each'
	from /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/drake-0.9.2.0.3.1/lib/rake/task.rb:224:in `execute'
	from /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/drake-0.9.2.0.3.1/lib/rake/task.rb:163:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
	from /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/drake-0.9.2.0.3.1/lib/rake/task.rb:160:in `synchronize'
	from /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/drake-0.9.2.0.3.1/lib/rake/task.rb:160:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
	from /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/drake-0.9.2.0.3.1/lib/rake/task.rb:199:in `block in invoke_prerequisites'
	from /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/drake-0.9.2.0.3.1/lib/rake/task.rb:197:in `each'
	from /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/drake-0.9.2.0.3.1/lib/rake/task.rb:197:in `invoke_prerequisites'
	from /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/drake-0.9.2.0.3.1/lib/rake/task.rb:162:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
	from /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/drake-0.9.2.0.3.1/lib/rake/task.rb:160:in `synchronize'
	from /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/drake-0.9.2.0.3.1/lib/rake/task.rb:160:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
	from /Users/hongli/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/drake-0.9.2.0.3.1/lib/rake/multi_task.rb:10:in `block (2 levels) in invoke_prerequisites'
rake aborted!
wrong number of arguments (given 2, expected 1)

Tasks: TOP => default => x86_64-darwin/libdrake-break-rake-compiler.bundle => x86_64-darwin/drake-break-rake-compiler/drake-break-rake-compiler.o => x86_64-darwin/drake-break-rake-compiler

Environment: Ruby 3.3.1 on macOS.

Analysis

gem install runs rake, which requires rake/xxx (among other things) without gem activation.

Merely having drake installed makes RubyGems prefer loading rake/xxx from drake rather than from rake. I guess it's because d comes before r, alphabetically.

Meanwhile, drake's rake/file_utils_ext.rb is incompatible with newer versions of FileUtils. rake-compiler makes use of FileUtils. And so things break.