aws-sdb - Latest on Rubygems is less than required

[BenHall]

Your gemspec defines that it requires aws-sdb >= 0.4.0 however on RubyGems the latest is only 0.3.1 - as such, unable to install the gem.

[hungryblank]

Hi Ben,

The aws-sdb gem distributed with rubygems is not enough to run dead_simple_sdb.
I worked on a slightly modified version which is under my github account.
To get things running you should do the following:

1. git clone git://github.com/hungryblank/aws-sdb.git
2. from the root of the repo run "rake package"
3. then run "sudo gem install pkg/aws-sdb-0.4.0.gem"

and after that

4. sudo gem install dead_simple_sb

You might also be interested in reading this blog post which mentions other gems useful to deal with sdb http://geekin.gs/using-amazon-aws-simpledb-with-ruby-roundup

[BenHall]

I'm now getting the error :

C:\sourcecode\aws-sdb>rake package
(in C:/sourcecode/aws-sdb)
rake aborted!
no such file to load -- spec/rake/spectask
C:/sourcecode/aws-sdb/rakefile:2
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

I have rspec 1.3.0 installed...

[hungryblank]

Works on my OSX/Linux installs

Still you can try changing the original Rakefile with one where all rspec related stuff is commented out http://gist.github.com/431895