As an interesting note, with this rails project: https://github.com/rdp/musicformormons with rubygems 1.3.7 config.gem and friends work well (if it's vendored, it accepts that, if it's installed, it accepts that. However, with rubygems 1.8.2, no amount of running $ rake gems:install prevents it from displaying the following error message: Missing these required gems: rack = 1.1.0 RedCloth ... https://gist.github.com/969791 Cheers! -r -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.