From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2007-01-14T17:44:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Hoe poisoned in Rubyforge


On Jan 14, 2007, at 12:30 AM, Eric Hodel wrote:

> Somehow hoe-1.1.7 has become poisoned in the RubyGems index:
> $ sudo gem install hoe
> Install required dependency zentest? [Yn]  ^CERROR:  Interrupted
> There is no gem by the name of 'zentest', and hoe will likely never  
> depend on 'ZenTest'.
> Until this is fixed you won't be able to install any Gems built  
> with hoe-1.1.7.

This is obviously the work of someone extending rubygems to have  
developer dependencies. Regardless of intent: you had NO RIGHT to  
upload ANYTHING to the gem repository under someone else's name or  
project. NONE. EVER. To say that I'm unhappy about this (and you) is  
a vast f@cking understatement.

P.S. There is a suite of unit tests built-in to rubygems for exactly  
this purpose. You might want to try writing some quality code before  
you decide you're equipped enough to start working on rubygems.