Ruby 1.8.4 is broken in Ubuntu Dapper Drake
Before you waste as much time as I did dealing with some weird exceptions thrown when trying to include a recently installed gem, note that ruby 1.8.4 is broken on Dapper Drake. I was not able to figure out which was the problem but doing apt-get remove ruby1.8 --purge and installing it from source (and I took the chance to update to ruby 1.8.5) solved the issue. The pitfall being that you’ll have to reinstall all your gems. It’s a matter of gem install something though (these guys definitely learned from apt-get :-).
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