setting SSLContext options in ruby

Question

I need to create an SSLSocket in ruby (1.8+) to talk to an encrypted service. I want to set ssl options on the SSLContext object. (something that eventually calls SSL_CTX_set_options in the underlying openssl library). I am not seeing any obvious way to do this.

This is using the OpenSSL::SSL::SSLContext interface.

As a point of reference, this is analogous to calling the set_options() in the python pyOpenSSL library: http://packages.python.org/pyOpenSSL/openssl-context.html