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

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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.
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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:

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rake pre_calculate_thingies > /dev/null
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now I’ll be doing:

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