“...I've been working since 2008 with Ruby / Ruby on Rails, love a bit of Elixir / Phoenix and learning Rust. I also poke through other people's code and make PRs for OpenSource Ruby projects that sometimes make it. Currently working for InPay...”

Rob Lacey
Senior Software Engineer, UK

Downgrading Rubygems

Installed latest Rubygems which broken my dev environment.

Rob-Laceys-MacBook-Pro:app roblacey$ ./script/rails s
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/specification.rb:990:in `date=': invalid date format in specification: "2011-9-23" (Gem::InvalidSpecificationException)
    from /Users/roblacey/repos/app/ruby/1.8/bundler/gems/compass-cb709350942f/compass.gemspec:7
    from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/specification.rb:1346:in `initialize'
    from /Users/roblacey/repos/app/ruby/1.8/bundler/gems/compass-cb709350942f/compass.gemspec:4:in `new'
    from /Users/roblacey/repos/app/ruby/1.8/bundler/gems/compass-cb709350942f/compass.gemspec:4

One to remember next time something screwy happens, and I am to lazy to use rvm

sudo gem uninstall rubygem-update -v 1.8.10
sudo gem install rubygems-update -v 1.5.2
sudo update_rubygems _1.5.2_
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