Comments on: Ruby 1.9.1 & Rails 3.0: Fixing ‘Invalid .gemspec format’ and rubygem warnings

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:26:21 +0000

Im having the same problem as Brett above. Though it’s not going away after “bundle install”. Gemfile:

source ‘http://rubygems.org‘
gem ‘rails’, :git => ‘git://github.com/rails/rails.git’
gem ‘pg’
gem ‘mysql’
gem ‘haml’
gem ‘compass’

# Cucumber on Rails 3 http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber-rails/blob/master/README.rdoc

group :test do
gem “rspec-rails”, “>= 2.0.0.beta.1″
gem “factory_girl_rails”
gem ‘autotest’
gem ‘capybara’
gem ‘database_cleaner’
gem ‘cucumber-rails’
gem ‘cucumber’
gem ‘spork’
gem ‘launchy’
gem ‘webrat’
end

gem “rails3-generators”, :git => “git://github.com/indirect/rails3-generators.git”

By: brett

brett — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:56:27 +0000

I had a similar issue running rake cucumber, gem update –system didnt do anything but bundle install worked to resolve it. Strange I ran the test first time and no errors, next time I ran it (with no changes to anyfiles anywhere on the server I get the list of errors below)….

Using the default profile…
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/mail-2.1.3/lib/mail/vendor/treetop-1.4.3/lib/treetop/compiler/grammar_compiler.rb:3: warning: already initialized constant AUTOGENERATED
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-0.6.4/lib/cucumber/platform.rb:8: warning: already initialized constant VERSION
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-0.6.4/lib/cucumber/platform.rb:9: warning: already initialized constant LANGUAGE_FILE
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-0.6.4/lib/cucumber/platform.rb:10: warning: already initialized constant LANGUAGES
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-0.6.4/lib/cucumber/platform.rb:11: warning: already initialized constant BINARY
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-0.6.4/lib/cucumber/platform.rb:12: warning: already initialized constant LIBDIR
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-0.6.4/lib/cucumber/platform.rb:13: warning: already initialized constant JRUBY
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-0.6.4/lib/cucumber/platform.rb:14: warning: already initialized constant IRONRUBY
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-0.6.4/lib/cucumber/platform.rb:15: warning: already initialized constant WINDOWS
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-0.6.4/lib/cucumber/platform.rb:16: warning: already initialized constant OS_X
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-0.6.4/lib/cucumber/platform.rb:17: warning: already initialized constant WINDOWS_MRI
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-0.6.4/lib/cucumber/platform.rb:18: warning: already initialized constant RAILS
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-0.6.4/lib/cucumber/platform.rb:19: warning: already initialized constant RUBY_BINARY
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-0.6.4/lib/cucumber/platform.rb:20: warning: already initialized constant RUBY_1_9
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-0.6.4/lib/cucumber/platform.rb:21: warning: already initialized constant RUBY_1_8_7
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/term-ansicolor-1.0.5/lib/term/ansicolor/version.rb:4: warning: already initialized constant VERSION
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/term-ansicolor-1.0.5/lib/term/ansicolor/version.rb:5: warning: already initialized constant VERSION_ARRAY
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/term-ansicolor-1.0.5/lib/term/ansicolor/version.rb:6: warning: already initialized constant VERSION_MAJOR
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/term-ansicolor-1.0.5/lib/term/ansicolor/version.rb:7: warning: already initialized constant VERSION_MINOR
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/term-ansicolor-1.0.5/lib/term/ansicolor/version.rb:8: warning: already initialized constant VERSION_BUILD
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/term-ansicolor-1.0.5/lib/term/ansicolor.rb:8: warning: already initialized constant ATTRIBUTES
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/term-ansicolor-1.0.5/lib/term/ansicolor.rb:39: warning: already initialized constant ATTRIBUTE_NAMES
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/term-ansicolor-1.0.5/lib/term/ansicolor.rb:78: warning: already initialized constant COLORED_REGEXP
/home/rfr/.bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-0.6.4/lib/cucumber/formatter/ansicolor.rb:63: warning: already initialized constant ALIASES

I re ran bundle install and issues went away.

By: Stefan Frank

Stefan Frank — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:33:30 +0000

that issue seems to have gone with ruby-gems1.3.6: I had the very same warnings with rvm/rails1.91 and an update with gem update –system also got rid of the warnings.

By: Fredrik Bränström

Fredrik Bränström — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:07:13 +0000

I had the exact same problem.

With RVM, the problem is the original Ruby system installation. So you have to switch before you uninstall the “rubygems-update” gem.

$ rvm system
$ gem list -d rubygems-update (just to confirm location is /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8)
$ sudo gem uninstall rubygems-update

Problem solved.

By: Anthony Burns

Anthony Burns — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:26:47 +0000

I am running Ruby 1.9.1 on RVM on my Ubuntu Karmic workstation. When I attempt to `gem uninstall rubygems-update`, I get the following error:

ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::InstallError)
cannot uninstall, check `gem list -d rubygems-update`

gem list -d rubygems-update yields this:

rubygems-update (1.3.5)
Authors: Jim Weirich, Chad Fowler, Eric Hodel
Rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems
Homepage: http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/
Installed at: /home/anthony/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378%global

RubyGems is a package management framework for Ruby