Ruby 1.9.3

These changes allow the babel_icious gem to be used with ruby 1.9.3. 

Backwards compatability is mainted with 1.8.7.

Chris- would it be prudent for you to assign me maintainer status for this gem on rubygems.org? That way I could tag and release new gems without having to bother you. I imagine this gem is only in use by LMP?