RubyGems and Perl?

So, I’m installing ruby on my laptop, and when I get to the step to install rb-rubygems, MacPorts installs perl5 as a dependency.
Why would a ruby tool require perl? My initial googling provided nothing damning. Certainly, it’s not because gems is written in perl… Nope, just checked the gems file to be sure, and it’s [...]

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