From: "W.P. McNeill" <billmcn@...>
Date: 2009-09-23T03:30:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Vicious versioning cycle prevents upgrading Ruby Gems

I downloaded the rubygems-1.3.5.tgz tarball from Ruby Forge and ran:

sudo ruby setup.rb

This installed Gems 1.3.5 over my previous version, so all of my old
gems remained in place.  (I wasn't sure that it would do this.)
Afterwards I was able to install newgem.  Problem solved.