My patch was accepted and pushed into the gem :)

Gemfile

@@ -216,9 +216,7 @@ gem 'rbtrace', require: false, platform: :mri
 
 # required for feed importing and embedding
 #
-# temporary when this is merged https://github.com/cantino/ruby-readability/pull/70
-# get rid of this
-gem 'ruby-readability-discourse', require: false
+gem 'ruby-readability', require: false
 
 gem 'simple-rss', require: false
 gem 'gctools', require: false, platform: :mri_21

Gemfile.lock

@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ GEM
       rspec-mocks (~> 2.14.0)
     ruby-hmac (0.4.0)
     ruby-openid (2.5.0)
-    ruby-readability-discourse (0.6.1)
+    ruby-readability (0.6.1)
       guess_html_encoding (>= 0.0.4)
       nokogiri (>= 1.4.2)
     sanitize (2.1.0)
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   rinku
   rspec-given
   rspec-rails
-  ruby-readability-discourse
+  ruby-readability
   sanitize
   sass
   sass-rails (~> 4.0.2)