https://rubygems.org/gems/ffi
All the 1.x versions of ffi only work with ruby 1.9, which we still have masked, so bumping ffi is currently not a priority.
(In reply to comment #1) > All the 1.x versions of ffi only work with ruby 1.9, which we still have > masked, so bumping ffi is currently not a priority. Weird as the test suite of a project I am working on still passes properly with 1.8.7. Maybe the gem is just pulled in but never used for anything.
It turns out that ruby 1.8.x support was re-instated with ffi 1.0.6. I've just added ffi 1.0.7 to CVS.