undefined method use_ssl

[opello]

While trying to use ruby-oembed 0.8.8 with jekyll 0.12.1 and https://gist.github.com/vanto/1455726 (all with ruby 1.8), I had to add require 'net/https' to lib/oembed.rb to get it to work.
The error I received was:

Liquid Exception: undefined method `use_ssl=' for #<Net::HTTP www.flickr.com:80 open=false> in index.html