From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-09-11T15:06:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9, Rubygems, and .gemspec warnings


On Sep 10, 2009, at 18:56 , Rob Sanheim wrote:

> I have rubygems installed because the first thing I do after  
> installing Ruby
> 1.9 is to run gem update --system, which updates gems to 1.3.5.   I  
> had
> forgotten that that just turns around and installs rubygems-update -  
> so I
> actually did use rubygems-update.

Well, I recommend you don't do that.

> Reverting to gems 1.3.1 "fixes" it:

It doesn't "fix" it, it fixes it.

> Besides, I've seen this on other developer's machines, so its  
> clearly not a
> 'just on my box' bug.

Nobody implied that it was. It will happen on any instance of 1.9  
where you install your own rubygems update. So, for now, don't do that.