diff --git a/pygments.rb.gemspec b/pygments.rb.gemspec
index 17d09711..5b27d316 100644
--- a/pygments.rb.gemspec
+++ b/pygments.rb.gemspec
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
 
   s.add_dependency 'yajl-ruby',   '~> 1.2.0'
   s.add_dependency 'posix-spawn', '~> 0.3.6'
-  s.add_development_dependency 'rake-compiler', '~> 0.7.6'
+  s.add_development_dependency 'rake-compiler', '~> 1.0.8'
 
   # s.extensions = ['ext/extconf.rb']
   s.require_paths = ['lib']