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chip

08 Jul, 2011 05:40 PM

I have installed the mechanize gem which uses webrobots and everything works fine on OSX (Snow Leopard). However, running "bundle install" on CentOS generates this error:

Invalid gemspec in [/home/account/public_html/rentwb/releases/20110708173025/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.8/specifications/webrobots-0.0.10.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2011-07-01 00:00:00.000000000Z"
** [out :: 10.180.82.250] /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/specification.rb:277:in _resort!': undefined methodname' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)

Any suggestions on a fix?

1. 2 Posted by chip on 08 Jul, 2011 08:48 PM

   

   I solved my own problem by adding the following to my Gemfile:

   gem 'nokogi'
   gem "webrobots", "~> 0.0.10", :git => 'git://github.com/knu/webrobots.git'

   I'm not sure if it matters, but I added these lines above "gem 'mechanize'", in case bundler needs them to be specified beforehand.

   I hope this helps anyone else that runs into this issue.

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2. 3 Posted by collin on 13 Jul, 2011 09:57 PM

   

   Also you could change "2011-07-01 00:00:00.000000000Z" to "2011-07-01" in the gemspec, until you update anyway...

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3. chip closed this discussion on 16 Jul, 2011 06:44 PM.

4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Nick Quaranto on 29 Jul, 2011 03:30 PM

   

   I would just use a standard date entry like 07-29-2011 or just change it to Date.today when generating the gemspec.

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