RubyGems on Stage is 1.3.7
RubyGems newer than 1.6.2 causes MANY deprecation errors.
(I had RubyGems 1.8.15).
NOTE: Gem.source_index is deprecated, use Specification. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
This repeats many times.
Downgrade to older RubyGems resolves this:
sudo gem update --system 1.6.2