Gem install fails when a source has a version of the gem in which version number contains a string
Reported by onlywade | February 24th, 2010 @ 05:03 PM
If a gem has a version number which is appended by a string (for example oauth 0.3.7.pre1), gem install will fail, even if another (stringless) target version of the gem is specified in config.
While this is the only example of the problem I've been able to find, I suspect it may occur whenever a string is contained in a version number at any point, i.e. 1.3.beta.1, etc..
Following is the output:
irb(main):003:0> GemInstaller.install('--config
required_gems.yml')
Malformed version number string 0.3.7.pre1
=> 1
And the contents of required_gems.yml:
defaults:
install_options: --include-dependencies --no-rdoc --no-ri gems:
- name: oauth version: '= 0.3.6'
The gem source used is: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
(You can see the offending gem version listed on the oauth gem page here: http://rubygems.org/gems/oauth)
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Chad Woolley February 24th, 2010 @ 07:12 PM
- State changed from “new” to “hold”
What version of RubyGems are you using? Mostly likely it is an old one which does not support prereleases. If it is less than RubyGems 1.3.5, please upgrade to RubyGem 1.3.5 or 1.3.6 and try again.
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onlywade February 24th, 2010 @ 07:31 PM
You're absolutely right, that cleared it up. Thanks for the swift response!
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Chad Woolley February 25th, 2010 @ 01:05 AM
- State changed from “hold” to “open”
Glad it works now.
It would be good if GemInstaller printed a descriptive error message in this situation. I'll keep this ticket open and put that in the next GemInstaller release.
Thanks...
-- Chad -
Chad Woolley March 25th, 2010 @ 12:45 AM
- State changed from “open” to “resolved”
Added message in: http://github.com/thewoolleyman/geminstaller/commit/3eec994f7855e44...
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Chad Woolley
onlywade