Pablo Fernandez

Getting rid of RubyGems deprecation warnings

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Pablo Fernandez
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A recent update to RubyGems is causing a lot of deprecation warnings like these:

NOTE: Gem::Specification#default_executable= is deprecated with no replacement. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::Specification#default_executable= called from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/rubygems-update-1.4.1.gemspec:11.
NOTE: Gem::Specification#default_executable= is deprecated with no replacement. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::Specification#default_executable= called from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/bundler-1.0.7.gemspec:10.
NOTE: Gem::Specification#default_executable= is deprecated with no replacement. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::Specification#default_executable= called from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/file-tail-1.0.5.gemspec:10.

I generally like software to move forward and the way to do that is deprecate and then after a while, make backwards incompatible changes. It’s painful but there’s no other way.

I do have a problem with all the cron jobs of my web apps like Keep on Posting or DNSk9 flooding my inbox with those warnings. Thankfully, that’s not hard to fix. Where I was doing:

rake pre_calculate_thingies > /dev/null

now I’ll be doing:

rake pre_calculate_thingies 2>&1 >/dev/null | grep -v default_executable

3 responses to “Getting rid of RubyGems deprecation warnings”

  1. iGbanam iGravity Avatar
    iGbanam iGravity

    What exactly does that line of code do?

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    1. J. Pablo Fernández Avatar
      J. Pablo Fernández

      In short ti redirects stdout to /dev/null, stderr to stdout and filters out any line (in stdout) that contains default_executable.

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  2. Zachary Burt Avatar
    Zachary Burt

    alternatively you can just do

    gem pristine –all –no-extensions

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