You underestimate the amount of discontent with rubygems. There is at least one replacement available (hellorip.com) and for good reason. I've already come acro

You underestimate the amount of discontent with rubygems. There is at least one replacement available (hellorip.com) and for good reason. I've already come across a few libs that use it exclusively. Ruby 1.9 actually ignores "require 'rubygems'" entirely which I suppose will make this whole issue moot, as soon as we all start using it.. um, any day now.