From: Patrick May <patrick@...>
Date: 2004-10-31T14:06:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems Install Problem


On Wednesday, October 13, 2004, at 10:43  AM, jim@freeze.org wrote:

> Hi
>
> I just installed gems and after it 'successfully' installed,
> it burped. Below are the stats:

I got this problem too.  I think I found the fix.  I dug around in the 
rubygems libraries.  This is the line where the error comes from:

   lib/rubygems/specification.rb, line 474
     result << "  s.#{name} = #{ruby_code(current_value)}\n" unless 
current_value == default

You can either setup a default:

   lib/rubygems/specification.rb, line 189
     required_attribute :version, Version.create('0.0.0')

Or you can make version's compare nicely to nihilism:

   lib/rubygems/version.rb, line 122
     def <=>(other)
       return 1 unless other  # I figure something is always more than 
nothing

Either way, things worked for me.  I've already forwarded this fix to 
the rubygems-developers mailing list.

Cheers,

Patrick