Question

Just finished updating my bundler and now I keep getting this messages:

NOTE: Gem::Specification#has_rdoc= is deprecated with no replacement. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::Specification#has_rdoc= called from /Users/eumir/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-head@waftt/bundler/gems/watir-9e41fd458687/watir/watir.gemspec:43

I’ve googled for this eror and all it returns are pages to agile web development(looks like a tutorial but it has all the errors pasted in it…weird)

http://intertwingly.net/projects/AWDwR4/checkdepot-193-30/section-10.1.html

Anyway, is the only way to turn this off, going into each of my “outdated” gems’ gemspecs and takign out that has_rdoc thing?

Answer 1

You are seeing this error because the Gemspec for Watir calls has_rdoc, which is deprecated in the latest RubyGems API.

I’d imagine by the time has_rdoc is removed from the API, the Watir team will have removed this call.

This warning does not affect your app or your tests, so can be safely ignored for now.