Part II: How to make Ruby AES-256-CBC and PHP MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128 play well together

This question is a continuation of my last one, regarding How to make Ruby AES-256-CBC and PHP MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128 play well together. I've got that working now, but I'm still struggling to go the other direction. The PHP generated cryptogram appears to have all the information that was provided, but I cannot get the Ruby code to decrypt it without error.

Here's the PHP code I'm using to generate the cryptogram:

$cleartext = "Who's the clever boy?";
$key = base64_decode("6sEwMG/aKdBk5Fa2rR6vVw==\n");
$iv = base64_decode("vCkaypm5tPmtP3TF7aWrug==");
$cryptogram = mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128, $key, $cleartext, MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, $iv);
$result = base64_encode($cryptogram);
print "\n'$result'\n";

RESULT
'JM0OxMINPTnF1vwXdI3XdKI0KlVx210CvpJllFja+GM='

Then here's the attempt to decrypt in Ruby:

>> cipher = OpenSSL::Cipher::Cipher.new('aes-128-cbc')
>> cipher.key = Base64.decode64("6sEwMG/aKdBk5Fa2rR6vVw==\n")
>> cipher.iv = Base64.decode64("vCkaypm5tPmtP3TF7aWrug==")
>> cryptogram = Base64.decode64('JM0OxMINPTnF1vwXdI3XdKI0KlVx210CvpJllFja+GM=')
>> cleartext = cipher.update(cryptogram)
=> "Who's the clever"
>> cleartext << cipher.final
OpenSSL::Cipher::CipherError: bad decrypt
 from (irb):100:in `final'
 from (irb):100

What's really frustrating about this is that it's possible to get the entire cleartext out of that encrypted string. Repeating the above, but adding a nonsense pad to the cryptogram:

  >> cleartext = cipher.update(cryptogram + 'pad')
  => "Who's the clever boy?\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000"
  >> cleartext << cipher.final
  OpenSSL::Cipher::CipherError: bad decrypt
   from (irb):119:in `final'
   from (irb):119

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