Fixing problems caused by using an old version of RubyGems (1.7.2)

I recently had to install an old version of RubyGems (v1.7.2 to work around an incompatibility with a Rails 2.3.x app I’m working with. This caused Capistrano to freak the older RubyGems version out with this error: Invalid gemspec in [/Users/myusername/.rvm/gems/ree-1.8.7-2012.01@mygemset/specifications/capistrano-2.11.2.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: “2012-02-22 00:00:00.000000000Z” This broke RubyGems so bad that every […]

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Problems installing the memcached gem?

Seeing something like this while compiling libmemcached or trying to install the memcached gem? checking for style of include used by make… GNU checking for gcc… gcc checking for C compiler default output file name… configure: error: in `/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.02/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/memcached-1.0.2/ext/libmemcached-0.32′: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log’ for more details. *** extconf.rb failed *** […]

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