diff --git a/plugins/lattes_curriculum/lib/html_parser.rb b/plugins/lattes_curriculum/lib/html_parser.rb
index f621366..23bce56 100755
--- a/plugins/lattes_curriculum/lib/html_parser.rb
+++ b/plugins/lattes_curriculum/lib/html_parser.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-require 'rubygems'
 require 'nokogiri'
 require 'open-uri'
 
diff --git a/plugins/ldap/dependencies.rb b/plugins/ldap/dependencies.rb
index 4a0593d..8fa1559 100644
--- a/plugins/ldap/dependencies.rb
+++ b/plugins/ldap/dependencies.rb
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-require 'rubygems'
 require 'net/ldap'
diff --git a/plugins/ldap/lib/ldap_authentication.rb b/plugins/ldap/lib/ldap_authentication.rb
index 7fc2219..e403171 100644
--- a/plugins/ldap/lib/ldap_authentication.rb
+++ b/plugins/ldap/lib/ldap_authentication.rb
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
 
-require 'rubygems'
 require 'iconv'
 require 'net/ldap'
 require 'net/ldap/dn'
diff --git a/plugins/solr/dependencies.rb b/plugins/solr/dependencies.rb
index 11a671d..3244994 100644
--- a/plugins/solr/dependencies.rb
+++ b/plugins/solr/dependencies.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-require 'rubygems'
 require 'active_record'
 require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/lib/acts_as_searchable"
 require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/lib/acts_as_faceted"
diff --git a/plugins/solr/install.rb b/plugins/solr/install.rb
index b7c4665..8188991 100644
--- a/plugins/solr/install.rb
+++ b/plugins/solr/install.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 #raise "Not ready yet. Some tests are failing."
-require 'rubygems'
 require 'rake'
 
 tasks_dir = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'vendor', 'plugins', 'acts_as_solr_reloaded', 'lib', 'tasks', '*.rake')
diff --git a/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/Rakefile b/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/Rakefile
index 31f261d..b1b1c03 100644
--- a/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/Rakefile
+++ b/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/Rakefile
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-require 'rubygems'
 require 'rake'
 require 'rake/testtask'
 require 'rdoc/task'
diff --git a/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/lib/acts_as_solr/tasks.rb b/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/lib/acts_as_solr/tasks.rb
index f2a8d0b..8d58464 100644
--- a/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/lib/acts_as_solr/tasks.rb
+++ b/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/lib/acts_as_solr/tasks.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 dir = File.dirname(__FILE__)
-require 'rubygems'
 require 'rake'
 require 'net/http'
 require 'active_record'
diff --git a/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/lib/solr/xml.rb b/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/lib/solr/xml.rb
index af913d7..0ee9690 100644
--- a/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/lib/solr/xml.rb
+++ b/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/lib/solr/xml.rb
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ end
 begin
   
   # If we can load rubygems and libxml-ruby...
-  require 'rubygems'
   require 'xml/libxml'
   raise "acts_as_solr requires libxml-ruby 0.7 or greater" unless XML::Node.public_instance_methods.collect{|x| x.to_sym}.include?(:attributes)
 
diff --git a/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/solr_test_rakefile.rb b/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/solr_test_rakefile.rb
index 8b92cb6..dd1595c 100644
--- a/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/solr_test_rakefile.rb
+++ b/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/solr_test_rakefile.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-require 'rubygems'
 require 'rake'
 dir = File.dirname(__FILE__)
 $:.unshift("#{dir}/lib")
diff --git a/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/test/test_helper.rb b/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/test/test_helper.rb
index 3199fbf..b896072 100644
--- a/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/test/test_helper.rb
+++ b/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/test/test_helper.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-require 'rubygems'
 require 'test/unit'
 require 'active_record'
 require 'active_record/fixtures'
diff --git a/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/test/unit/test_helper.rb b/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/test/unit/test_helper.rb
index ac6cb3a..87001cc 100644
--- a/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/test/unit/test_helper.rb
+++ b/plugins/solr/vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr_reloaded/test/unit/test_helper.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 dir = File.dirname(__FILE__)
 $:.unshift(File.join(File.expand_path(dir), "..", "..", "lib"))
 
-require 'rubygems'
 require 'test/unit'
 require 'acts_as_solr'
 require 'mocha'
diff --git a/plugins/spaminator/dependencies.rb b/plugins/spaminator/dependencies.rb
index 1104923..1ebb9c0 100644
--- a/plugins/spaminator/dependencies.rb
+++ b/plugins/spaminator/dependencies.rb
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-require 'rubygems'
 require 'benchmark'
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