HELP Installing older versions of rails on OSX?

rubyonrails-talk
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I am attempting to recreate an old install of a machine that failed recently. I originally setup the machine using the guide found on Hivelogic (Dan Benjamin). Which would have reinstated all of my old environments (Ruby 1.8.6, Rubygems 0.9.2 Rails 2.1.6)..

I can get Ruby installed fine, although I had to use 1.8.7 because of RubyGems, which is running version 1.3.6) but when I try to

sudo gem install rails it won't install because of

active support requires Ruby version >= 1.9.3

Can anyone help me in getting Rails setup with Ruby 1.8.7 and RubyGems 1.3.6 is there a way to pass the version of Rails to the gem installer ?

Thank you in advance.

Jeff

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gem install rails -v 1.3.6

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This is *exactly* where you should be using rvm (http://rvm.io/). You will save yourself a ton of pointless grief. Seriously.

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So with this, could I confidently install Rails 1.1.6 and Ruby 1.8.6 ? Because thus far, attempting to get these two in line is turning out to be a real headache... :frowning:

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So with this, could I confidently install Rails 1.1.6 and Ruby 1.8.6 ?

Yes. I just did a test install of those on an MBA running Mavericks.

rvm install ruby-1.8.6 rvm use ruby-1.8.6 gem install rake -v '0.8.7' # just a random old version gem install rails -v '1.1.6'

tickety-boo and bob's y'r uncle :slight_smile:

You might have to do some sleuthing to figure out which versions of other gems you need, but that's a start.

Good luck.