diff --git a/share/ruby-build/1.9.3-dev b/share/ruby-build/1.9.3-dev
index bd0f496ceb..0aee0d1ef0 100644
--- a/share/ruby-build/1.9.3-dev
+++ b/share/ruby-build/1.9.3-dev
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-require_gcc
 install_package "yaml-0.1.4" "http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz"
 install_git "ruby-1.9.3-dev" "https://github.com/ruby/ruby.git" "ruby_1_9_3" autoconf standard
 install_package "rubygems-1.8.10" "http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.8.10.tgz" ruby
diff --git a/share/ruby-build/1.9.3-p125 b/share/ruby-build/1.9.3-p125
index c737f126af..1710b147c6 100644
--- a/share/ruby-build/1.9.3-p125
+++ b/share/ruby-build/1.9.3-p125
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-require_gcc
 install_package "yaml-0.1.4" "http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz"
 install_package "ruby-1.9.3-p125" "http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p125.tar.gz"
diff --git a/share/ruby-build/2.0.0-dev b/share/ruby-build/2.0.0-dev
index 99f99e09e1..2695eec623 100644
--- a/share/ruby-build/2.0.0-dev
+++ b/share/ruby-build/2.0.0-dev
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-require_gcc
 install_package "yaml-0.1.4" "http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz"
 install_git "ruby-2.0.0-dev" "https://github.com/ruby/ruby.git" "trunk" autoconf standard