I''ve just submitted a patch for ticket 1709: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/1709 Unfortunately, there''s no way to make this work ''out of the box'' for regular Win32 users using the OneClick installer for Ruby 1.8.2. However, the maintainer of that package is going to fix this for the 1.8.4 release. I''m bringing this up on rails-core (slap me if that was a bad idea) because I''m hoping some people with better operating systems than me could run the tests and make sure nothing broke. I''d particularly like to make sure that the new test case I added doesn''t fail on things like FreeBSD or Solaris. Thanks, --Wilson.