Savon 0.9.8 breaks compatibility with bundler and older versions of rubygems on 1.8.7

[jrafanie]

I don't know if it's intentional but this commit: rubiii/savon@335d01a#savon.gemspec seems to break compatibility with ruby 1.8.7-p358 with rubygems 1.3.7.

See: https://gist.github.com/1855248

[rubiii]

the commit you're referring to is not included in v0.9.8, but is supposed to be released asap
to fix this problem instead. i'll leave this issue open until v0.9.9 is released.

sorry for the inconvenience!

[rubiii]

please try upgrading to v0.9.9 which should fix this problem.

[jrafanie]

Ok, i'll try it when rubygems.org is back up ;-) Did you push two versions of 0.9.8? Because the one I installed from rubygems.org had the encoding header and zentest change to support jruby.

My gist shows the gempsec that was brought down having this:
WARNING: ArgumentError: Illformed requirement ["#YAML::Syck::DefaultKey:0x1055d0cb8 4.5.0"]>
encoding: utf-8

Very weird.

[rubiii]

just installed 0.9.8 again and it definitely doesn't include the changes.
so 0.9.9 should work fine.

[jlecour]

Yep, this one fucked me up real good :-) Thanks for this quick fix.

[jrafanie]

Thanks @rubiii for the quick response. In case others run into this, wherever I got the bad 0.9.8 version from (rubygems.org) on Friday, I was not able to "gem uninstall savon" to remove it due to the invalid specification:

WARNING: Invalid .gemspec format in '/Users/joerafaniello/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@trunk/specifications/savon-0.9.8.gemspec'
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::InstallError)

I had to manually edit the .gemspec referenced above to change what appears to be 3 invalid ZenTest dependencies like this: ["#YAML::Syck::DefaultKey:0x1110818f0 4.5.0"] to "4.5". But once done, I was able uninstall 0.9.8 and a subsequent bundle update brought down 0.9.9 without any issue.

[jlecour]

Thanks @jrafanie, I should have explained how I've done, since I was in the same situation.

I've manually deleted the files/directories :

• shared/bundle/ruby/1.8/cache/savon-0.9.8.gem
• shared/bundle/ruby/1.8/gems/savon-0.9.8
• shared/bundle/ruby/1.8/specifications/savon-0.9.8.gemspec

[jrafanie]

@jlecour, I did that too the first time. After reinstalling using the bad 0.9.8, I edited the gemspec to see if that would fix the uninstallation and it did.

[rrevi]

rubiii, thanks for this fix.