What's wrong with the gemspec?

ruby-on-rails-3

Solution

Due to invalid date-formats, gem seems to think that tilt is not installed yet. to fix it run:

sudo sed -i 's/ 00:00:00.000000000Z//' /var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/*

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Problem

I pretty much did everything this instruction told me to do, but I get a series of errors. Here is the log: ``` stanley@ubuntu:~$ mkdir railstest stanley@ubuntu:~$ rails new railstest Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/mime-types-1.18.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2012-03-21 00:00:00.000000000Z" Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/tilt-1.3.3.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2011-08-25 00:00:00.000000000Z" Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/mail-2.4.4.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2012-03-14 00:00:00.000000000Z" exist create README.rdoc create Rakefile create config.ru create .gitignore create Gemfile create app create app/assets/images/rails.png create app/assets/javascripts/application.js create app/assets/stylesheets/application.css create app/controllers/application_controller.rb create app/helpers/application_helper.rb create app/mailers create app/models create app/views/layouts/application.html.erb create app/mailers/.gitkeep create app/models/.gitkeep create config create config/routes.rb create config/application.rb create config/environment.rb create config/environments create config/environments/development.rb create config/environments/production.rb create config/environments/test.rb create config/initializers create config/initializers/backtrace_silencers.rb create config/initializers/inflections.rb create config/initializers/mime_types.rb create config/initializers/secret_token.rb create config/initializers/session_store.rb create config/initializers/wrap_parameters.rb create config/locales create config/locales/en.yml create config/boot.rb create config/database.yml create db create db/seeds.rb create doc create doc/README_FOR_APP create lib create lib/tasks create lib/tasks/.gitkeep create lib/assets create lib/assets/.gitkeep create log create log/.gitkeep create public create public/404.html create public/422.html create public/500.html create public/favicon.ico create public/index.html create public/robots.txt create script create script/rails create test/fixtures create test/fixtures/.gitkeep create test/functional create test/functional/.gitkeep create test/integration create test/integration/.gitkeep create test/unit create test/unit/.gitkeep create test/performance/browsing_test.rb create test/test_helper.rb create tmp/cache create tmp/cache/assets create vendor/assets/javascripts create vendor/assets/javascripts/.gitkeep create vendor/assets/stylesheets create vendor/assets/stylesheets/.gitkeep create vendor/plugins create vendor/plugins/.gitkeep run bundle install Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/mime-types-1.18.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2012-03-21 00:00:00.000000000Z" Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/tilt-1.3.3.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2011-08-25 00:00:00.000000000Z" Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/mail-2.4.4.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2012-03-14 00:00:00.000000000Z" Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/mime-types-1.18.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2012-03-21 00:00:00.000000000Z" Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/tilt-1.3.3.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2011-08-25 00:00:00.000000000Z" Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/mail-2.4.4.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2012-03-14 00:00:00.000000000Z" Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/mime-types-1.18.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2012-03-21 00:00:00.000000000Z" Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/tilt-1.3.3.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2011-08-25 00:00:00.000000000Z" Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/mail-2.4.4.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2012-03-14 00:00:00.000000000Z" Enter your password to install the bundled RubyGems to your system: Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/......... Using rake (0.9.2.2) Using i18n (0.6.0) Using multi_json (1.3.5) Using activesupport (3.2.3) Using builder (3.0.0) Using activemodel (3.2.3) Using erubis (2.7.0) Using journey (1.0.3) Using rack (1.4.1) Using rack-cache (1.2) Using rack-test (0.6.1) Using hike (1.2.1) Installing tilt (1.3.3) Using sprockets (2.1.3) Using actionpack (3.2.3) Installing mime-types (1.18) Using polyglot (0.3.3) Using treetop (1.4.10) Installing mail (2.4.4) Using actionmailer (3.2.3) Using arel (3.0.2) Using tzinfo (0.3.33) Using activerecord (3.2.3) Using activeresource (3.2.3) Using bundler (1.1.3) Installing coffee-script-source (1.3.3) Installing execjs (1.3.2) Installing coffee-script (2.2.0) Using rack-ssl (1.3.2) Using json (1.7.3) Using rdoc (3.12) Using thor (0.14.6) Using railties (3.2.3) Installing coffee-rails (3.2.2) Installing jquery-rails (2.0.2) Using rails (3.2.3) Installing sass (3.1.18) Installing sass-rails (3.2.5) Installing sqlite3 (1.3.6) with native extensions Installing uglifier (1.2.4) Your bundle is complete! Use `bundle show [gemname]` to see where a bundled gem is installed. ``` What's your impression of the issues that are causing this problem with the gemspec?

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