Michael Fellinger wrote in post #956694:
>> I know I could just toss out the Debian ruby and/or rubygems, but I'd
>> rather not right now.
>
> Use rvm, that way you don't have to touch your system ruby and can
> still have a working installation of ruby that also works with latest
> rubygems.
> http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/

Perhaps I should have been clearer: "I'd rather not mess with my 
installed ruby at the moment" - including reinstalling all gems and 
rebuilding ruby from source, through rvm or otherwise.

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