From: Markus Fischer <markus@...>
Date: 2011-03-27T20:16:34+09:00
Subject: Re: gem list --remote --details gives "ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)"

Hi,

I figure the problem

"undefined method `empty?' for #<Syck::PrivateType:0x99f0804
@value="", @type_id="null">"

comes from rubygems/commands/query_command.rb line 222:

if spec.rubyforge_project and not spec.rubyforge_project.empty? then


I figured something must be mixed up here and spec.rubyforge_project
should not be a Syck::PrivateType .

When I change it to

if spec.rubyforge_project and
spec.rubyforge_project.respond_to?(:empty?) and not
spec.rubyforge_project.empty? then

the command "gem list --remote --details" does not abort but runs ...
after about seven minutes I get this:

$ time gem list --remote --details  > gems-details
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NameError)
    uninitialized constant Syck::Syck

real    7m4.031s
user    0m21.269s
sys     0m7.144s


Maybe the command isn't supposed to work this way?

thx,
- Markus