NoMethodError: undefined method `blank?' for "":String

[NeMO84]

This seems to occur now that the aws gem is moving away from providing the support file which added the blank? method to the string object.

<NoMethodError: undefined method blank?' for "":String> ["/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/http_connection-1.4.0/lib/right_http_connection.rb:410:in finish'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/aws-2.4.5/lib/awsbase/awsbase.rb:327:inrequest_info2'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/aws-2.4.5/lib/awsbase/awsbase.rb:339:in request_info3'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/aws-2.4.5/lib/s3/s3_interface.rb:182:inrequest_info'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/aws-2.4.5/lib/s3/s3_interface.rb:345:in incrementally_list_bucket'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/aws-2.4.5/lib/s3/bucket.rb:124:inkeys_and_service'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/aws-2.4.5/lib/s3/bucket.rb:109:in keys'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/aws-2.4.5/lib/s3/bucket.rb:153:inkey'", "(irb):4:in irb_binding'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/workspace.rb:80:ineval'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/workspace.rb:80:in evaluate'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/context.rb:254:inevaluate'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:159:in block (2 levels) in eval_input'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:273:insignal_status'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:156:in block in eval_input'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:243:inblock (2 levels) in each_top_level_statement'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:229:in loop'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:229:inblock in each_top_level_statement'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:228:in catch'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:228:ineach_top_level_statement'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:155:in eval_input'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:70:inblock in start'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:69:in catch'", "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:69:instart'", "/usr/local/bin/irb:12:in

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In order for this project to be available as a gem it must be self contained without requiring other projects to define methods. At least not for the case at hand.