Install broken because of ruby version required by httparty

[amro]

Install broken because of ruby version required by httparty

[amro]

Can you explain what you mean by the gemspec should specify the same Ruby Version? I don't want to specify version 0.11.0 absolutely. I could specify it as a minimum but not as the absolute version, in case people want or need to use newer versions of HTTParty.

I've been considering dropping the dependency all together. I've not had time just yet.

[mig-hub]

Well the gemspec settings of HTTParty specifies a minimum Ruby version. This is why it was failing in my configuration.

To be honest since your gem does not give a specific (or minimum httparty version), Gem should try the last one but fallback to a lower version of httparty if the last one failed because of Ruby version. Maybe there is an option for this, I don't know.

The idea is that in the current state of your gemspec, Gibbon IS dependent on Ruby 1.9.3 because httparty is. If you give this version of Ruby in the gemspec, my install would instead load a previous version of Gibbon which is compatible with Ruby 1.9.2.

I agree this is not a good option because anyway the previous versions of Gibbon are probably set with an undefined version of httparty as well. It would solve nothing. I did not think about this at the time.

Regarding the other option (defining the gem version), I never suggested you should give an absolute version. Of course the minimum version is better. I was just mentioning the version in order to let you know which one worked. I don't know the internals of Gem, but maybe when the minimum is specified, it tries to fallback to this one because it is known to work.

All in all dependency management is a hard thing to deal with and I certainly did not want to force anything, I was just trying to help.

Thank you.

[amro]

I see, sorry for misunderstanding. I say I support 1.9.x so I'd definitely like to fix it. I'm just not sure how -- that's why I asked. Setting a minimum Ruby version of 1.9.3 would prevent others from running into this but it doesn't really fix your problem. I'll look into whether one can specify dependencies by Ruby version as soon as I get a chance..

[amro]

Closing this - as it's no longer relevant. Apologies for not figuring out a worth while solution. Gibbon v2 is out now.