Invalid gemspec on rubygems 1.8.6

[ajsharp]

I see this when I install (and when other gems depend on) json under rubygems 1.8.6:

Invalid gemspec in [/Users/ajsharp/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@connie/specifications/json-1.6.1.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2011-09-18 00:00:00.000000000Z"

[ajsharp]

Apparently you're not supposed to specify the date in the gemspec anymore. Sounds like an easy fix.

[etdsoft]

Hi,

Are you pushing a new version of the gem with this fix?

I'm having some issues with our windows installer and json's gemspec and I was wondering if I should go ahead, publish but point users to this entry and instructions on how to fix the .gemspec once the gem is installed or wait until you push a new version.

Can you give us a rough time-frame?

Thanks!

[duelinmarkers]

What's the story with this issue? When chef upgraded their json dependency from <= 1.5.2 to <= 1.6.1 this started blowing up for me. Is removing date from the gemspec really the right solution?

[ajsharp]

The date field has been deprecated in the gem spec.

Alex Sharp

Zaarly, Inc.
@ajsharp | github.com/ajsharp | alexjsharp.com

On Jan 4, 2012, at 5:30 AM, John Humereply@reply.github.com wrote:

What's the story with this issue? When chef upgraded their json dependency from <= 1.5.2 to <= 1.6.1 this started blowing up for me. Is removing date from the gemspec really the right solution?

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[duelinmarkers]

I'm still confused, as I was using the same version of Rubygems all along. (Though maybe there's a gem system update hidden away in the build somewhere.)

[gamafranco]

ok, removing the date from the gemspec fixed it. But would be nice to have this fixed on the original gem.

[flori]

@ajsharp According to https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/master/lib/rubygems/specification.rb it's not deprecated.

These files are generated by calling rubygem's Specification#to_ruby method, so not being able to parse it's own output would indicate a rubygems bug.

[hsbt]

RubyGems 1.x is EOL status in 2021.