From: George  Moschovitis <george.moschovitis@...>
Date: 2007-03-11T17:25:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Using ruby-openid/ruby-yadis w/o ruby gems

Anyone?

-g.

On Mar 10, 1:58 pm, "George  Moschovitis"
<george.moschovi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear devs,
>
> I am trying to use the ruby-openid/ruby-yadis gems without ruby gems,
> ie I just copied the lib files in a local lib directory (and placed
> this in the LOAD_PATH). When running the application I get the
> following error:
>
> /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/specification.rb:188:in
> `remove_method': method `description=' not defined in
> Gem::Specification (NameError)
>         from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/specification.rb:
> 188:in `overwrite_accessor'
>         from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/specification.rb:
> 331
>         from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:502
>         from ./lib/openid/discovery.rb:7
>         from ./lib/openid/consumer.rb:7
>         from ./lib/openid.rb:2
>
> The offending code is:
>
> require "openid/util"
> require "openid/service"
> require "openid/parse"
>
> # try and use the yadis gem, falling back to system yadis
> begin
>   require 'rubygems'  <-------------------------------- HERE !
>   require_gem 'ruby-yadis', ">=0.3.3"
> rescue LoadError
>   require "yadis"
> end
>
> I am wondering if any rubygems guru can provide a solution.
>
> thanks in advance,
> -g.