diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index c356167c9..98f1b6810 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ begin
     gem.add_dependency('mime-types', '>= 1.16')
     gem.add_dependency('multipart-post')
     gem.add_dependency('nokogiri')
-    gem.add_dependency('om', '>= 0.1.6')
+    gem.add_dependency('om', '>= 0.1.7')
     # gem.add_dependency('yaml')
 
     gem.add_development_dependency "rspec", ">= 1.2.9"