diff --git a/chef/cookbooks/bootstrap/recipes/default.rb b/chef/cookbooks/bootstrap/recipes/default.rb
index aaf725642..bf7b5da36 100644
--- a/chef/cookbooks/bootstrap/recipes/default.rb
+++ b/chef/cookbooks/bootstrap/recipes/default.rb
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@ end
 execute "nokogiri deps" do
   command "yum install -y libxml2-devel libxslt-devel"
 end
+execute "eventmachine deps" do
+  command "yum install -y gcc-c++"
+end
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