#gemspec

[ushf]

Gemspec howto

Some time ago Yehuda Katz wrote a useful short introduction on how to make Ruby gems

 http://yehudakatz.com/2010/04/02/using-gemspecs-as-intended/

[senthiljruby]

Fixing Invalid gemspec. #

For fixing this type of error follow the following steps:

Invalid gemspec in [/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/activemodel-3.2.0.rc1.gemspec]: Illformed requirement ["#<YAML::Syck::DefaultKey:0xb664a594> 3.2.0.rc1"] Invalid gemspec in [/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/tilt-1.3.3.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2011-08-25 00:00:00.000000000Z" Invalid gemspec in [/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/actionpack-3.2.0.rc1.gemspec]: Illformed requirement ["#<YAML::Syck::DefaultKey:0xb668700c> 3.2.0.rc1"] Invalid gemspec in [/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/json-1.6.1.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2011-09-18 00:00:00.000000000Z" Invalid gemspec in [/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/dm-serializer-1.2.1.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2011-10-24 00:00:00.000000000Z" Invalid gemspec in [/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/railties-3.2.0.rc1.gemspec]: Illformed requirement ["#<YAML::Syck::DefaultKey:0xb66cc79c> 3.2.0.rc1"] Invalid gemspec in [/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/json_pure-1.6.1.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2011-09-18 00:00:00.000000000Z" 1.8.13

  1) gem update --system

2) gem uninstall rails -v 3.2.0.rc1

3) remove the gemspec file which is located on [/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/..]

[slant]

[quantq-blog]

Problem:

invalid date format in specification: "2011-11-10 00:00:00.000000000Z

Solution:

Edit gemspec files by opening an admin "session": edit from 2011-11-10 00:00:00.000000000Z to 2011-11-10