Thanks Thomas for the suggestion...turns out it was largely error between the keyboard and the chair...<br><br>running "apt-get install build-essential" threw in some stuff I didn't have on the system, and it was the most immediate fix
<br><br>but I also had a pre-release gem from Zed's announcement alongside the standard...not sure if maybe the two versions fighting was part/all of the problem...<br><br>>Select RubyGem to uninstall:<br>> 1. mongrel-0.3.12.4
<br>> 2. mongrel-0.3.13<br>> 3. All versions<br>> 3<br><br>Then reinstalling via gems normal method worked, it's working just fine. Thanks!<br><br>-Andre<br>