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From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com>
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<snip>
> What's different between my root environment and the one in which cron
> runs (with respect to ruby and its gems)? Where should I start looking?

No direct answer, sorry, Michael.

You might want to use:

 /bin/bash -l -x -c /root/src/mailshears/bin/mailshears

to at least help debug it.