$ sudo gem install twitter --no-rdoc --no-ri
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
When you HTTParty, you must party hard!
Successfully installed hpricot-0.6.164
Successfully installed activesupport-2.2.2
Successfully installed fattr-1.0.3
Successfully installed arrayfields-4.6.0
Successfully installed main-2.8.3
Successfully installed highline-1.5.0
Successfully installed activerecord-2.2.2
Successfully installed httparty-0.1.5
Successfully installed twitter-0.3.7
9 gems installed

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'twitter'
Gem::LoadError: Could not find RubyGem hoe (>= 1.8.0)

	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:578:in `report_activate_error'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:134:in `activate'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:158:in `activate'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `each'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `activate'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:158:in `activate'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `each'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `activate'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
	from (irb):1