Can't install coderay gem v=1.0.8 with ruby 1.8.6-p420

[rubychan]

Can't install coderay gem v=1.0.8 with ruby 1.8.6-p420

As you can clearly see that version of ruby is over 2 years old. I would strongly suggest upgrading.

[ook]

Hi svnpeen,

I can clearly see the homepage saying:
supported platforms: MRI 1.8.6+

I have no problem to understand it's hard to maintain compatibility for old interpreters, but in that case coderay should say from which gem version it's not longer 1.8.6 compatible.

[korny]

The website is not up to date. The documentation says:

CodeRay needs Ruby 1.8.7+ or 1.9.2+. It also runs on Rubinius and JRuby.

I will update the website, thank you for finding this.

Sorry, but 1.8.7 was released over 4 years ago and I thought it wasn't worth testing 1.8.6 any more. Don't know what happened on your system, but if the installation failed, wouldn't that be RubyGems' fault, not CodeRay's?

CodeRay still works pretty with Ruby 1.8.6, though. I can run all of the tests that don't rely on shoulda-context and the benchmarks.