diff --git a/bin/j2bson b/bin/j2bson
index e15a714..b776b40 100755
--- a/bin/j2bson
+++ b/bin/j2bson
@@ -29,10 +29,11 @@ require 'bson'
 # Note that, at the moment, this will not properly round-trip
 # in all cases from the output generated by b2json.
 begin
-require 'yajl/json_gem'  # broken with 'json/ext'
+require 'json/pure'  # broken with 'json/ext'
 rescue LoadError
-  puts "This script requires yajl. Please install the following:"
-  puts "  gem install yajl"
+  puts "This script requires json/pure. Please install one of the following:"
+  puts "  gem install json_pure" 
+  puts "  gem install json" 
   Process.exit
 end