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UPDATE: This isn't really a true answer per se (I'm still seeing the same problem in MRI 1.9.1), but I used RVM to get my MRI 1.8.7 installation and gems up to date and tried running it, and everything works perfectly. I assume the problem is that RMagick isn't yet quite compatible with 1.9.1 yet, though the documentation does specifically mention Ruby 1.9 support.