Installing my own gems on a Dreamhost account

Hey all,

Does anyone who uses Dreamhost have any experience installing your own gems there?

On their wiki, I've found this: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Ruby_on_Rails#Using_Gems_Installed_in_Your_Home_Directory

And this: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Passenger (down at the bottom)

But I seem to be too dumb to interpret these directions, since neither one seems to work.

This seems to be similar, though not specifically Dreamhosty: http://jbowes.dangerouslyinc.com/2008/05/13/installing-ruby-gems-in-your-home-directory/

Again, trying this just got my process killed by some Dreamhost daemon. I'm not quite to the point where I'm ready to go to a ruby- specific hosting company, but it seems like a lot of my project ideas are going to require installing one gem or another, so I hope I can figure this out.

Thanks, Jeff