diff --git a/girl_friday.gemspec b/girl_friday.gemspec
index 87b0209..144a1c0 100644
--- a/girl_friday.gemspec
+++ b/girl_friday.gemspec
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.test_files    = `git ls-files -- {test,spec,features}/*`.split("\n")
   s.executables   = `git ls-files -- bin/*`.split("\n").map{ |f| File.basename(f) }
   s.require_paths = ["lib"]
-  s.add_dependency              'connection_pool', '~> 0.1.0'
+  s.add_dependency              'connection_pool', '~> 0.9.0'
   s.add_development_dependency  'sinatra', '~> 1.3'
   s.add_development_dependency  'rake'
 end
diff --git a/test/test_girl_friday_queue.rb b/test/test_girl_friday_queue.rb
index 2f286c3..8875baf 100644
--- a/test/test_girl_friday_queue.rb
+++ b/test/test_girl_friday_queue.rb
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ def test_should_persist_with_redis_connection_pool
       require 'redis'
       require 'connection_pool'
       pool = ConnectionPool.new(:size => 5, :timeout => 2){ Redis.new }
-      pool.flushdb
+      pool.with_connection {|redis| redis.flushdb }
     rescue LoadError
       return puts "Skipping redis test, 'redis' gem not found: #{$!.message}"
     rescue Errno::ECONNREFUSED