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OAuth-enabled curl for the Twitter API
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Install fails on CentOS7: twurl requires Ruby version >= 2.4.0 #148

Closed minfrin closed 4 years ago

minfrin commented 4 years ago

Install fails on fully up to date CentOS7 machine.

Expected behavior

Install succeeds with no issues.

Actual behavior

Install fails as follows:

-bash-4.2$ gem install twurl
Fetching: oauth-0.5.4.gem (100%)
Successfully installed oauth-0.5.4
Fetching: twurl-0.9.5.gem (100%)
ERROR:  Error installing twurl:
    twurl requires Ruby version >= 2.4.0.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

andypiper commented 4 years ago

what version of Ruby is available on that system, please?

minfrin commented 4 years ago

CentOS7 ships with this:

 ruby                                           x86_64                             2.0.0.648-36.el7                                base                              73 k
andypiper commented 4 years ago

Unfortunately Twurl 0.9.5 requires a newer Ruby runtime (per the error message). You could try using rbenv or rvm to update to a more recent version -> https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-ruby-on-centos-7/

minfrin commented 4 years ago

This is like demolishing your house and rebuilding it, just to change the TV channel.

Is there a way to widen the dependency list on Ruby to support widely installed versions, or is the Ruby API not stable enough to do that?

andypiper commented 4 years ago

We needed to move to a newer version of Ruby in order to add more recent features and resolve some issues. The last version of twurl that supported Ruby < 2.4 was version 0.9.3 released in 2015 - you should find that it will work, but not all of the current features will be available.

gem install twurl -v 0.9.3

andypiper commented 4 years ago

Ruby 2.4.0 itself is out of support, so I'm going to close this issue at this point.