Problem installing a number of rails apps with debian/unstable

["Douglas F. Calvert" <douglasfcalvert@gmail.com>]

Hello,
 I am awfully new to ruby so I think I might not be able to phrase the
question accurately but I am going to give it a shot. I recently
installed all of the ruby/rails packages with apt. When I went to test
out tracks or bugtrack I got an error about gems missing. I read some
of the threads about the problems associated with packaging ruby for
debian and the gems issue. I installed gems from source and I thought
everything was going to be okay. However when I go to try out tracks
or bugtrack i get the following errors:

dfc@liberate:~/src/bugtrack$ ruby bugtrack
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:204:in
`report_activate_error': Could not find RubyGem activesupport (>
0.0.0) (Gem::LoadError)
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:141:in `activate'
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:37:in
`require_gem_with_options'
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:31:in `require_gem'
        from ./config/environment.rb:31
        from bugtrack:47


or

/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:204:in
`report_activate_error': Could not find RubyGem activesupport (>
0.0.0) (Gem::LoadError)
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:141:in `activate'
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:37:in
`require_gem_with_options'
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:31:in `require_gem'
        from ./script/../config/environment.rb:31
        from script/server:45

Am I doing something wrong? What is the best way to run rails apps
like these on debian? Should I just download the ruby source and
maintain it by hand? Hopefully there is a way to do this with apt:)

--dfc
douglasfcalvert@gmail.com