Thanks, Peter!
At the moment I cannot change to 0.50 but I'll keep it in mind for the near future when I will have to update my system.
Note that you could add entries for Debian testing in your /etc/apt/sources list but have your system default to stable by creating a file /etc/apt/preferences that reads something like this
Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 910
Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 900
Since the entry for stable will have a higher priority, your system will prefer packages from stable, but you can alternatively install package versions from testing, by first querying $ aptitude versions gem and with that info explicitely asking for the testing version $ aptitude install gem=1:0.94-1+b1
Read https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration as above instructions are without warranty.