Allowing for creation of pre-compiled gems, using rack-compiler-dock.
diff --git a/src/ruby/lib/grpc.rb b/src/ruby/lib/grpc.rb
index 1671ba3..7890e17 100644
--- a/src/ruby/lib/grpc.rb
+++ b/src/ruby/lib/grpc.rb
@@ -32,8 +32,13 @@
   ENV['GRPC_DEFAULT_SSL_ROOTS_FILE_PATH'] = ssl_roots_path
 end
 
+begin
+  require "grpc/#{RUBY_VERSION.sub(/\.\d$/, '')}/grpc"
+rescue LoadError
+  require 'grpc/grpc'
+end
+
 require 'grpc/errors'
-require 'grpc/grpc'
 require 'grpc/logconfig'
 require 'grpc/notifier'
 require 'grpc/version'