Error installing chef, mime-types requires Ruby >= 1.9.2

[cevaris]

ERROR: Error installing chef:
mime-types requires Ruby version >= 1.9.2.
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!

chmod +x /tmp/vagrant-shell && /tmp/vagrant-shell

Stdout from the command:

Building native extensions. This could take a while...

Stderr from the command:

ERROR: Error installing chef:
mime-types requires Ruby version >= 1.9.2.

[cevaris]

The Ruby version of the default box (http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box) defined in the vagrant file fails to work for mime-types install. Suggest change to another box that has Ruby 1.9.2+ pre-installed.