From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2011-09-19T16:09:41+09:00
Subject: Re: GEMS: GEMSPEC problem

On 09/18/2011 10:01 AM, Frederick Lee wrote:
> Greetings:
>      I'm a Ruby/Rails/Cucumber neophyte.
>
> Goal: To use Cucumber for automated testing of iOS (Objective-C)
> applications.
>
> Environment:
> 1) Mac OS X&  iOS simulation/OS X.
> 2) ruby --version
> ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [i686-darwin11]
> 3) gem --verison
> 1.3.7
>
> ----------------------
>
> I'm trying to install a cohesive ruby/gem library that simply work.
> After I've installed a 'frank-cucumber' gem, everything went crazy.
>
> Now I'm getting a string of diagnostic text with a warning after I
> attempt to access a gem item.  For example (abridged):
>
> RicMac:~ Ric$ gem --list
> WARNING:  #<ArgumentError: Illformed requirement
> ["#<YAML::Syck::DefaultKey:0x10f13dcc8>  0.8.4"]>
> # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
>
> Gem::Specification.new do |s|
>    s.name = %q{cucumber}
>    s.version = "1.0.4"
>
>    s.required_rubygems_version = Gem::Requirement.new(">= 0") if
> s.respond_to? :required_rubygems_version=
>    s.authors = ["Aslak Helles\303\270y"]
> ...
> ...
> ...
>
> WARNING:  Invalid .gemspec format in
> '/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/cucumber-
> 1.0.4.gemspec'
> rake aborted!
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Question:
>
> 1) How do I correctly manage my gems/ruby environment so the assorted
> .gemspecs are in sync?
> 2) I have ruby 1.9 instance installed on my Mac OS X in addition to the
> default ruby v1.8.7.
>     How do I manage both environments (with associated gem specs)?
>
> In short...
>     I want to be able to type $>gem --version or $>cucumber --version
> WITHOUT flagging 'invalid...gemspec.'
>
>
> Regards,
> Ric

rvm[1] should help you with the "managing your environments" issue.

I'm guessing your specific issue may be related to this post[2].

[1] http://beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/
[2] http://blog.rubygems.org/2011/08/31/shaving-the-yaml-yacc.html

-Justin