(Sass/maven) Unable to launch rake using jruby-rake-plugin

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java -jar ~/.m2/repository/org/jruby/jruby-complete/1.6.5/jruby-complete-1.6.5.jar -S gem env

java -jar ~/.m2/repository/org/jruby/jruby-complete/1.6.5/jruby-complete-1.6.5.jar -S gem env
RubyGems Environment:

• RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.8.9
• RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2011-10-25 patchlevel 330) [java]
• INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: file:/users/grunt/.m2/repository/org/jruby/jruby-complete/1.6.5/jruby-complete-1.6.5.jar!/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
• RUBY EXECUTABLE: java -jar /users/grunt/.m2/repository/org/jruby/jruby-complete/1.6.5/jruby-complete-1.6.5.jar
• EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: file:/users/grunt/.m2/repository/org/jruby/jruby-complete/1.6.5/jruby-complete-1.6.5.jar!/META-INF/jruby.home/bin
• RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
  • ruby
  • universal-java-1.6
• GEM PATHS:
  • file:/users/grunt/.m2/repository/org/jruby/jruby-complete/1.6.5/jruby-complete-1.6.5.jar!/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  • /users/grunt/.gem/jruby/1.8
• GEM CONFIGURATION:
  • :update_sources => true
  • :verbose => true
  • :benchmark => false
  • :backtrace => false
  • :bulk_threshold => 1000
  • "install" => "--no-rdoc --no-ri --env-shebang"
  • "update" => "--no-rdoc --no-ri --env-shebang"
• REMOTE SOURCES:
  • http://rubygems.org/

How to configure the GEM path: http://forums.site5.com/showthread.php?t=11954

The workaround is to use the second to last version (1.5.6) instead of the latest (1.6.5).
Version 1.5.6 contains rake.
Version 1.6.5 ... does not!

<!-- Excerpt of working pom.xml (at least) -->

<properties>
    <jruby.version>1.5.6</jruby.version>
    <gem.home>${user.home}/.gem/jruby/1.8</gem.home>
    <gem.options>--no-rdoc --no-ri --no-test</gem.options>
  </properties>

<plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.jruby.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>jruby-rake-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${jruby.version}</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>install-sass</id>
                        <phase>process-resources</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>jruby</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <args>-S gem install -i ${gem.home} ${gem.options} sass</args>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>

                    <execution>
                        <id>sass</id>
                        <phase>process-resources</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>jruby</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <args>-I${gem.home} -S sassify.rb ${basedir}/src/main/webapp/sass ${basedir}/src/main/webapp/css</args>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
</plugins>

Here is the ruby file (sassify.rb) maven is calling to transform SASS into CSS:

require 'rubygems'
require 'sass'
require 'sass/exec'

abort "2 arguments required: source_dir destination_dir" if ARGV.size != 2

source_dir = ARGV[0]
dest_dir   = ARGV[1]

options = [ 
  "--update", 
  "--no-cache",
  "--style", "expanded",
  "#{source_dir}:#{dest_dir}"
]     

sass = Sass::Exec::Sass.new(options)
begin           
  puts "SASS: Converting SASS files (in #{source_dir}) into CSS files (in #{dest_dir})"
  sass.parse!   
rescue SystemExit => se
  puts "SASS: Done."
end