Rails - Mar 2012 - twitter api works with curl; but doesnt work with twitter-stream???

can anyone tell me why connecting to twitter using curl works and with
twitter-stream it doesnt (i am using the example code from the gem website
on github:
https://github.com/voloko/twitter-stream/blob/master/examples/reader.rb

using curl:
echo
''track=software,ruby,rails,grails,torquebox,spring,tomcat,jboss''
>
track.in
curl -d @track.in
https://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json-uUSERNAME:PASSWORD

everything works:

however when using twitter-stream; i get rejected (something with ssl;
however, i dont know why the curl client works)

require ''rubygems''
require ''twitter/json_stream''

username=''user''
password=''password''

username=ARGV[0] if ARGV[0]
password=ARGV[1] if ARGV[1]
auth="#{username}:#{password}"

puts "running twitter with auth => #{auth}"

EventMachine::run {
  stream = Twitter::JSONStream.connect(
    :path    => ''/1/statuses/filter.json'',
    :auth    => auth,
    :method  => ''POST'',
    #:ssl     => true,
    :content =>
''track=software,ruby,rails,grails,torquebox,spring,tomcat,jboss''
  )

  stream.each_item do |item|
    $stdout.print "item: #{item}\n"
    $stdout.flush
  end

  stream.on_error do |message|
    $stdout.print "error: #{message}\n"
    $stdout.flush
  end

  stream.on_reconnect do |timeout, retries|
    $stdout.print "reconnecting in: #{timeout} seconds\n"
    $stdout.flush
  end

  stream.on_max_reconnects do |timeout, retries|
    $stdout.print "Failed after #{retries} failed reconnects\n"
    $stdout.flush
  end

  trap(''TERM'') {
    stream.stop
    EventMachine.stop if EventMachine.reactor_running?
  }
}
puts "The event loop has ended"


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Thank You,
Matthew Purdy

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