Rubygems 1.7.x and compass gemspec

[johnae]

The compass gemspec is invalid and rubygems 1.7.x will tell you that and won't let you run bundle install for example. I had to downgrade to rubygems 1.6.2 to make it work. This is very annoying and should probably be fixed in the gemspec. I guess the problem is this:

gemspec.date = "#{Time.now.year}-#{Time.now.month}-#{Time.now.day}"

which is not really valid - it should probably be

gemspec.date = Time.now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

[scottdavis]

is this change backwards compatible?

[scottdavis]

according to the gem manual date should be a unix timestamp integer?

spec.date = File.utime('VERSION')

[johnae]

Well if that's the case both the current gemspec and my suggestion are wrong and will probably result in the same behavior (i.e in my case not being able to run bundle install).

[scottdavis]

actually you shouldn't set this anyway
http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/rubygems-update/Gem/Specification.html#method-i-date-3D

[johnae]

Ahh ok, then that is the solution to this. Simply removing that from the gemspec should make everything good with rubygems 1.7.x.

[scottdavis]

fixed issue with gem spec in rubygems 1.7 closed by 73a01b3

[scottdavis]

this will get fixed in the beta.6 push