Problem with gem

Ruby
1

Hello,

I am trying to make a gem package for one of my library that I am
going to make avaiable soon. Problem is, I can successfully install my
gem on the machine where I build the gem. But if I copy that gem to
another machine and try to install it I get

[root@ruby-agi download]# gem install ruby-agi-0.0.3.gem
Attempting local installation of ‘ruby-agi-0.0.3.gem’
ERROR: Error installing gem ruby-agi-0.0.3.gem[.gem]: parse error on
line 0, col 31: `!ruby/object:Gem::Specification ’

on both build machine and client machine I have gem-0.8.11
I also gave a try by deleting source_cache file, but no luck.

I am sure, I havn’t provide enough information to identify the
problem. What else I should provide, please suggest. I am new at gem
packaging. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mohammad K.

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Mohammad K. wrote:

Hello,

I am trying to make a gem package for one of my library that I am
going to make avaiable soon. Problem is, I can successfully install my
gem on the machine where I build the gem. But if I copy that gem to
another machine and try to install it I get

[root@ruby-agi download]# gem install ruby-agi-0.0.3.gem
Attempting local installation of ‘ruby-agi-0.0.3.gem’
ERROR: Error installing gem ruby-agi-0.0.3.gem[.gem]: parse error on
line 0, col 31: `!ruby/object:Gem::Specification ’

Sounds like you built the gem on a Ruby 1.8.3 system and are trying to
install it on a Ruby 1.8.2 system. Version 1.8.3 has a backwards
compatibility bug in the Yaml code such that the yaml produced on 1.8.3
cannot be read on earlier systems.

Fortunately, I’ve heard rumours that 1.8.4 (out real soon now) will
correct that bug.

–
– Jim W.

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Hi Jim,

Thanks a lot for your reply.
Yes, ruby version is the issue at my end.

I am going to add the following line in my spec file
spec.required_ruby_version = ‘>= 1.8.3’

Thanks again,
Mohammad K.

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On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:47:32 -0000, Mohammad K. [email protected]
wrote:

I am going to add the following line in my spec file
spec.required_ruby_version = ‘>= 1.8.3’

I think there shouldn’t be any need to do that just for the Yaml issue -
if you upgrade to 1.8.4 in a few days, or even downgrade to 1.8.2, your
gem will be fine.

If you really don’t want to switch versions, you could use a
workaround
I use, that I believe works (it at least gets gems distributed by
Rubyforge, and I’ve had no complaints about them not working on prior
versions). See
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/171295 (yes,
this time I could find the thread :))