Rubygems Issues

I recently upgraded a server’s rubygems from 0.9.0 to 1.2.0. Upon
doing so, one of our apps that uses soap4r thinks all the security
certificates it sees are invalid (see Error 1 below). I tried
reverting to 0.9.0, but anything that uses rubygems crashes now (see
Error 2 below). If anyone could help me solve either problem, that
would be great. Ideally, I’d like to run the latest version because
some of my new Rails apps have issues with the older version of
Rubygems. Thanks!

=============Error 1=====================
Processing MainController#index (for 76.2.163.148 at 2008-07-25
11:06:30) [GET]
Session ID: 56f806ed434bfb20f2e37cb433c62220
Parameters: {“action”=>“index”, “controller”=>“main”}
Error in main_controller.index: certificate verify failed
/var/www/fulfillment/public/…/config/…/lib/http-access2.rb:1001:in
connect' /var/www/fulfillment/public/../config/../lib/http-access2.rb:1001:inssl_connect’
/var/www/fulfillment/public/…/config/…/lib/http-access2.rb:1363:in
connect' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:intimeout’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in timeout' /var/www/fulfillment/public/../config/../lib/http-access2.rb:1351:inconnect’
/var/www/fulfillment/public/…/config/…/lib/http-access2.rb:1209:in
query' /var/www/fulfillment/public/../config/../lib/http-access2.rb:892:inquery’
/var/www/fulfillment/public/…/config/…/lib/http-access2.rb:434:in
do_get_block' /var/www/fulfillment/public/../config/../lib/http-access2.rb:370:inconn_request’
/var/www/fulfillment/public/…/config/…/lib/http-access2.rb:285:in
request' /var/www/fulfillment/public/../config/../lib/http-access2.rb:264:inpost’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/streamHandler.rb:170:in send_post' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/streamHandler.rb:109:insend’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/proxy.rb:170:in route' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/proxy.rb:141:incall’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/driver.rb:178:in call' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/driver.rb:232:inget_unfulfilled’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.6/lib/
action_web_service/client/soap_client.rb:63:in send' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.6/lib/ action_web_service/client/soap_client.rb:63:inperform_invocation’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.6/lib/
action_web_service/client/base.rb:15:in method_missing' /var/www/fulfillment/public/../config/../app/controllers/ main_controller.rb:35:inindex’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/
action_controller/base.rb:941:in send' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/ action_controller/base.rb:941:inperform_action_without_filters’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/
action_controller/filters.rb:368:in perform_action_without_benchmark' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/ action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:inperform_action_without_rescue’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in measure' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/ action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:inperform_action_without_rescue’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/
action_controller/rescue.rb:82:in perform_action' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/ action_controller/base.rb:408:insend’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/
action_controller/base.rb:408:in process_without_filters' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/ action_controller/filters.rb:377:inprocess_without_session_management_support’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/
action_controller/session_management.rb:117:in process' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:indispatch’
/var/www/fulfillment/public/dispatch.cgi:10
Completed in 0.01965 (50 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.00006 (0%) | 200 OK

============Error 2==============
irb(main):001:0> require ‘rubygems’
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require ‘hpricot’
NoMethodError: private method specification_version=' called for #<Gem::Specification:0xb7c8d1a8> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb:86:inload_specification’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/specification.rb:
401:in initialize' from (eval):1:innew’
from (eval):1:in load_specification' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb: 121:ineval’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb:86:in
load_specification' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb: 121:inload_gems_in’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb:
120:in each' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb: 120:inload_gems_in’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb:75:in
from_gems_in' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb:47:infrom_installed_gems’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:109:in
source_index' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 111:ininit_gemspecs’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
56:in initialize' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 30:innew’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
30:in `require’
from (irb):2irb(main):003:0>