Rails rake db:create does not work

I come from a computer science and programming background, and I am familiar with a *nix CLI.

I am new to ruby on rails, and I am doing an online bootcamp. One of my lessons has me creating a new rails application. It starts out with the following commands to create a new rails application and create the database:

$ rails new bloccit -T
$ cd bloccit
$ rake db:create

When I run the rake command, the process just hangs. I let it run for 30 minutes, and it just sat there. When I do a hard interrupt, I get the following stack trace:

^C/Users/mikekeathley/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/spring-1.3.4/lib/spring/client/run.rb:99:in `gets': Interrupt
from /Users/mikekeathley/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/spring-1.3.4/lib/spring/client/run.rb:99:in `verify_server_version'
from /Users/mikekeathley/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/spring-1.3.4/lib/spring/client/run.rb:56:in `run'
from /Users/mikekeathley/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/spring-1.3.4/lib/spring/client/run.rb:37:in `warm_run'
from /Users/mikekeathley/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/spring-1.3.4/lib/spring/client/run.rb:26:in `call'
from /Users/mikekeathley/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/spring-1.3.4/lib/spring/client/command.rb:7:in `call'
from /Users/mikekeathley/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/spring-1.3.4/lib/spring/client.rb:26:in `run'
from /Users/mikekeathley/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/spring-1.3.4/bin/spring:48:in `<top (required)>'
from /Users/mikekeathley/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/spring-1.3.4/lib/spring/binstub.rb:11:in `load'
from /Users/mikekeathley/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/spring-1.3.4/lib/spring/binstub.rb:11:in `<top (required)>'
from /Users/mikekeathley/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.1/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
from /Users/mikekeathley/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.1/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
from /Users/mikekeathley/code/bloccit/bin/spring:13:in `<top (required)>'
from bin/rake:3:in `load'
from bin/rake:3:in `<main>'

I understand the stack trace: on line 99 in the run.rb file, the method gets is getting stuck. I just don't know anything about spring.

I am running Ruby 2.2.1p85, Rails 4.2.1, and sqlite3 1.3.10.

Thanks for any responses in advance!