Invalid date format specification in gemspec

Question

I am getting the following error when I try to use gems in windows, and I also referred to this stackoverflow post and updated rubygems and rails. But nothing could solve t

Answer 1

This is not really an answer but if somebody feels like digging more I found this gemspec spec here: http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/rubygems-update/Gem/Specification.html (scroll down to date=date() and click to show source):

@date = case date
when String then
  if %r\A(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})\Z/ =~ date then
    Time.utc($1.to_i, $2.to_i, $3.to_i)
  else
    raise(Gem::InvalidSpecificationException,
          "invalid date format in specification: #{date.inspect}")
  end
when Time, Date then
  Time.utc(date.year, date.month, date.day)
else
  TODAY
end

So I guess this is the code that parses that gemspec, and it just looks like the date format that are in the files that show errors don't conform to this.

What I did was to just manually fix those offending gemspecs as suggested above (changing the dates to "yyyy-mm-dd", it works for me.

All the rubygem specs I had that had this problem also has a line

s.rubygems_version = %q{1.3.5}

So I'm guessing these are just old gems? And what's with those %q{...} anyway?