12:38 <pombreda> Howdy, I am building a utility around rubygems. With rubygems 2.0.x I can require 'rubygems/package' then gem_spec = Gem::Package.new(gem_or_spec).spec to load a spec for a .gem file

12:38 <pombreda> But with rubygems 1.8.2x which is still the default on some linux distro, I do not have such class. What would be the equivalent code in the 1.8.x stream? I want my code to work with whatvere rubygems version installed 1.8.x or 2.x

12:39 <pombreda> and work with both ruby 1.9x and 2.x ;)

12:45 <pombreda> This works fine with ruby 2.x and rubygems 2.x, but fails badly with rubygems 1.8.x https://gist.github.com/pombredanne/c05c557305bb7106ec61

12:55 <pombreda> ok, I think I can self answer to myself: require 'rubygems/format' then Gem::Format.from_file_by_path(gem) seemed to have been the pattern in 1.8 to load a .gem sepc

12:55 <pombreda> *spec

13:05 <pombreda> I just need to fight unicode issues now with rubygems 1.8 and ruby 1.9 ... sounds like some strings are BLOB

16:15 <pombreda> FWIW, this is what I ended up with https://gist.github.com/pombredanne/c05c557305bb7106ec61 and it works with RubyGems 1.8.2x and 2.x

19:30 <swills> got gitlab working

19:31 <swills> greetings new people. :)

19:32 <swills> oops, i see i'm in the wrong window. :)