Invalid gemspec

[johncburr]

Did a bundle install of my app. It is now trying to use childprocess 0.2.1 instead of 0.1.9. Keep getting the following error:

Invalid gemspec in [/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/childprocess-0.2.1.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2011-08-11 00:00:00.000000000Z"

Did I do something wrong, or is that on your end?

[jarib]

Hmm, not sure. Perhaps @drbrain can help? The installed .gemspec looks fine to me:

# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-

Gem::Specification.new do |s|
  s.name = %q{childprocess}
  s.version = "0.2.1"

  s.required_rubygems_version = Gem::Requirement.new(">= 0") if s.respond_to? :required_rubygems_version=
  s.authors = [%q{Jari Bakken}]
  s.date = %q{2011-08-11}
  s.description = %q{This gem aims at being a simple and reliable solution for controlling external programs running in the background on any Ruby / OS combination.}
  s.email = [%q{jari.bakken@gmail.com}]
  s.homepage = %q{http://github.com/jarib/childprocess}
  s.require_paths = [%q{lib}]
  s.rubyforge_project = %q{childprocess}
  s.rubygems_version = %q{1.8.6}
  s.summary = %q{This gem aims at being a simple and reliable solution for controlling external programs running in the background on any Ruby / OS combination.}

  if s.respond_to? :specification_version then
    s.specification_version = 3

    if Gem::Version.new(Gem::VERSION) >= Gem::Version.new('1.2.0') then
      s.add_development_dependency(%q<rspec>, [">= 2.0.0"])
      s.add_development_dependency(%q<yard>, [">= 0"])
      s.add_development_dependency(%q<rake>, ["~> 0.9.2"])
      s.add_runtime_dependency(%q<ffi>, ["~> 1.0.6"])
    else
      s.add_dependency(%q<rspec>, [">= 2.0.0"])
      s.add_dependency(%q<yard>, [">= 0"])
      s.add_dependency(%q<rake>, ["~> 0.9.2"])
      s.add_dependency(%q<ffi>, ["~> 1.0.6"])
    end
  else
    s.add_dependency(%q<rspec>, [">= 2.0.0"])
    s.add_dependency(%q<yard>, [">= 0"])
    s.add_dependency(%q<rake>, ["~> 0.9.2"])
    s.add_dependency(%q<ffi>, ["~> 1.0.6"])
  end
end

[jarib]

This looks related: http://help.rubygems.org/discussions/problems/575-invalid-gemspec-with-invalid-date-format-in-specification

[peternixey]

I'm having a similar problem:

Installing childprocess (0.2.1) Invalid gemspec in [/Users/petenixey/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@live/specifications/childprocess-0.2.1.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2011-08-11 00:00:00.000000000Z"
/Users/petenixey/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/specification.rb:277:in `block in _resort!': undefined method `name' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)

[johncburr]

I ended up just doing a sudo vim on the file and removing the offending timestamp. Then I did the bundle install the second time and it was fine.

@jarib - Thanks for the link, at least I know why it happened.

[jarib]

I've released 0.2.2 with no changes except a new gemspec generated with rubygems 1.8.9 (previous gem was made with 1.8.6). Not sure if that helps, but hopefully it does.

[peternixey]

I think it was just an issue with rubygems: rubygems/rubygems#57. On updating it, all the problems went away (there were issues with several other gems too) @jarib - thank for the quick response