echo.rb doesn't work after upgrade from 0.7.1 to 0.8.0

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I am using a ejabberd server with an external script for authentication.  I was able to connect to it using an IM client, such as pidgin.  Then a few months ago I tried to write a chatbot in ruby using the blather gem.  I took the examples/echo.rb script to connect to my ejabberd server.  When I had the 0.7.1 version of the blather gem, it worked fine, and I got:

Connected ! send messages to user@node

But after I upgraded blather to 0.8.0, I got an error.  It would print my jid and password (no space between them) before it output the stacktrace:

userpassword

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/blather-0.8.0/lib/blather/client/client.rb:232:in `block in setup_initial_handlers'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/blather-0.8.0/lib/blather/client/client.rb:295:in `call'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/blather-0.8.0/lib/blather/client/client.rb:295:in `call_handler'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/blather-0.8.0/lib/blather/client/client.rb:286:in `block (2 levels) in call_handler_for'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/blather-0.8.0/lib/blather/client/client.rb:286:in `catch'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/blather-0.8.0/lib/blather/client/client.rb:286:in `block in call_handler_for'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/blather-0.8.0/lib/blather/client/client.rb:285:in `each'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/blather-0.8.0/lib/blather/client/client.rb:285:in `find'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/blather-0.8.0/lib/blather/client/client.rb:285:in `call_handler_for'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/blather-0.8.0/lib/blather/client/client.rb:278:in `block in handle_stanza'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/blather-0.8.0/lib/blather/client/client.rb:277:in `each'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/blather-0.8.0/lib/blather/client/client.rb:277:in `handle_stanza'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/blather-0.8.0/lib/blather/client/client.rb:194:in `block in handle_data'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/blather-0.8.0/lib/blather/client/client.rb:192:in `catch'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/blather-0.8.0/lib/blather/client/client.rb:192:in `handle_data'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/blather-0.8.0/lib/blather/client/client.rb:63:in `block in initialize'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/girl_friday-0.10.0/lib/girl_friday/work_queue.rb:147:in `call'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/girl_friday-0.10.0/lib/girl_friday/work_queue.rb:147:in `block (2 levels) in start'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/girl_friday-0.10.0/lib/girl_friday/actor.rb:86:in `call'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/girl_friday-0.10.0/lib/girl_friday/actor.rb:86:in `block in spawn_link'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/girl_friday-0.10.0/lib/girl_friday/actor.rb:69:in `call'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/girl_friday-0.10.0/lib/girl_friday/actor.rb:69:in `block (2 levels) in spawn'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/girl_friday-0.10.0/lib/girl_friday/actor.rb:212:in `block in initialize'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/girl_friday-0.10.0/lib/girl_friday/actor.rb:377:in `watchdog'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/girl_friday-0.10.0/lib/girl_friday/actor.rb:212:in `initialize'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/girl_friday-0.10.0/lib/girl_friday/actor.rb:66:in `new'

/home/foo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@railschat/gems/girl_friday-0.10.0/lib/girl_friday/actor.rb:66:in `block in spawn'

Does anyone know why this is happening?