> I agree, @haus; unless we plan on supporting versions of Ruby earlier than 1.8.7 (and I don't think we do) this line should simply be removed (not replaced with a line that reads Requires: ruby >= 1.8)

I am not actually sure this change is side-effect free.  This was the
mechanism that Fedora used to allow, eg, JRuby, or REE, or other
non-MRI Ruby packages to work correctly with pure Ruby code.  Not, I
suspect, that this would be widely used, but ... yeah.

(I also notice, belatedly, that the RPM now depends on Ruby *twice*,
making this a poor choice of change. :)