Maybe that has been asked already, but is it possible to rebuild Ruby  
without sweeping all of the installed gems?
I have mine in /usr/local so it's isolated from the old one.

Is that even feasible to try? Or the gems/libs will only link to the  
interperter they have been built against?
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