Old Rubies, meet new macOS

Trying to run an old, unsupported Ruby on an M1 Mac? You're in the right place.

This is a collection of ruby-build definitions for local dev on macOS. Not for production use. Homebrew is required.

Ruby versions:

• 1.8.7-p374

How to install

Grab the build definition by cloning the repo or curling a specific file, then rbenv install the path to the definition.

git clone https://github.com/basecamp/ruby-dev
cd ruby-dev
rbenv install ./1.8.7-p374

or

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/basecamp/ruby-dev/main/1.8.7-p374
rbenv install ./1.8.7-p374

(Note the leading ./ - this is a path to a specific build definition for ruby-build, not a version specific for it to look for among its built-in definitions.)