octopress deploy won't work with S3

[TheChymera]

I am trying to deploy a test site to an amazon s3 bucket, but octopress deploy seems to nt notice that I have installed the required gem:

chymera@zenbookhost ~/blogs/tutorials_o3 $ octopress deploy
Deploying to S3 requires the aws-sdk-v1 gem. Install with `gem install aws-sdk-v1`.
chymera@zenbookhost ~/blogs/tutorials_o3 $ gem install aws-sdk-v1
Successfully installed aws-sdk-v1-1.66.0
Parsing documentation for aws-sdk-v1-1.66.0
Done installing documentation for aws-sdk-v1 after 18 seconds
1 gem installed
chymera@zenbookhost ~/blogs/tutorials_o3 $ octopress deploy
Deploying to S3 requires the aws-sdk-v1 gem. Install with `gem install aws-sdk-v1`.

This behaviour persists if I close the terminal and try in a new one. Any idea what could be wrong?