Invalid gemspec because of the date format in specification

Question

When I include a gem that I made, thanks to Bundler (version 1.0.12), in a Gemfile and then I try to bundle or to rake just like that:

$ rake

I've got this error message:

Invalid gemspec in [/Users/zagzag/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@foobar/specifications/myplugin-1.0.0.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2011-04-21 00:00:00.000000000Z" 

I'm on the last Mac OS X (10.6.4), with:

$ ruby -v ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18 revision 30909) [x86_64-darwin10.4.0] 

and:

$ gem -v Invalid gemspec in [/Users/zagzag/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@foobar/specifications/myplugin-1.0.0.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2011-04-21 00:00:00.000000000Z" 1.7.2 

I really don't see how to solve this issue. Thanks for any ideas.

Answer 1

Here is the way I fix the "invalid date format in specification" error:

1.) Go to the specifications folder located at:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/

2.) Find the spec that is causing the problem.

3.) Change s.date = %q{2011-05-21 00:00:00.000000000Z} to s.date = %q{2011-05-21}

That's a WIN for me! Good Luck

Answer 2

Here is the command to fix this for all your gems:

perl -p -i -e 's/ 00:00:00.000000000Z//' ~/gems/specifications/*.gemspec 

It converts s.date = %q{2011-05-21 00:00:00.000000000Z} to s.date = %q{2011-05-21} and should fix your issue.