The new Ruby OpenID library has been released and it has a bunch of major changes from 1.x.x. This patch updates the OpenIdAuthentication plugin to use the 2.x.x version.
I wouldn't usually feel much pressure to upgrade, however the ruby- openid 1.x.x gem is broken after Ruby Gems 1.0 was released.
I think we should also consider freezing ruby-openid in this plugin so this type of thing doesn't happen again.