From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2010-03-29T09:35:32+09:00
Subject: Re: a question about gem's ~>

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Albert Schlef <albertschlef@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a question about RubyGems's "~>". Sorry for asking this here.
> I've searched in their "manual", but it's like searching a needle in a
> haystack.
>
> My question is simple:
>
> My gem works only on Ruby 1.8 (that is, it doesn't work on Ruby 1.9 (and
> isn't supposed to)).
>
> In my gem specification I have:
>
>  s.required_ruby_version = '~> 1.8'

This says that the version must have a major version number of 1, and
a minor version number >= 8, so it will include 1.9.x
>
> Is this correct? Or do I have to write '~> 1.8.0' ?

You need to specify some teeny version number. so

~> 1.8.0
or
~> 1.8.6

should work.

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