mailcatcher: Ruby 1.9 no longer supported due to Mailcatcher's dependencies?

Hi, yesterday we stopped being able to install Mailcatcher. During the installation (via gem install mailcatcher) the following error comes up:

Error installing mailcatcher:
mime-types-data requires Ruby version >= 2.0.

We have Ruby 1.9.3p484 installed from the official Ubuntu repository (there is no newer one unfortunately).

Is this the end of the support of Ruby 1.9, or can we do something about it?

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State: closed
Created 8 years ago
Reactions: 7
Comments: 17 (6 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Make installation compatible with Ruby 1.9 And Ubuntu 12.04 See https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher/issues/277 — committed to Oefenweb/ansible-mailcatcher by tersmitten 8 years ago
[+] try to fix Travis CI build "Ruby 1.9 no longer supported due to Mailcatcher's dependencies?" -> https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher/issues/277 — committed to voku/swiftmailer by voku 8 years ago
Fix broken mailcatcher gem installation Refs https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher/issues/277#issuecomment-209154903 — committed to jadb/ansible-role-mailcatcher by jadb 8 years ago
Fix broken mailcatcher gem installation Refs https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher/issues/277#issuecomment-209154903 — committed to jadb/ansible-role-mailcatcher by jadb 8 years ago
Just keep mime-types < 3, and use strong version comparison — committed to sj26/mailcatcher by sj26 8 years ago
handle mime-types-data issue on travis Using solution based on info from: - https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5145 - https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher/issues/277 — committed to lalitkapoor/browser-timezone-rails by lalitkapoor 8 years ago
handle mime-types-data issue on travis Using solution based on info from: - https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5145 - https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher/issues/277 — committed to lalitkapoor/browser-timezone-rails by lalitkapoor 8 years ago
handle mime-types-data issue on travis Using solution based on info from: - https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5145 - https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher/issues/277 — committed to lalitkapoor/browser-timezone-rails by lalitkapoor 8 years ago
handle mime-types-data issue on travis Using solution based on info from: - https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5145 - https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher/issues/277 — committed to lalitkapoor/browser-timezone-rails by lalitkapoor 8 years ago

Most upvoted comments

Try this, which worked for me on ruby 1.9.3-p551 with an empty gemset:

$ gem install mime-types --version "< 3"
Fetching: mime-types-2.99.1.gem (100%)
Successfully installed mime-types-2.99.1
1 gem installed

$ gem install mailcatcher --conservative
Fetching: i18n-0.7.0.gem (100%)
Fetching: json-1.8.3.gem (100%)
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Fetching: thread_safe-0.3.5.gem (100%)
Fetching: tzinfo-1.2.2.gem (100%)
Fetching: minitest-5.8.4.gem (100%)
Fetching: activesupport-4.2.6.gem (100%)
Fetching: eventmachine-1.0.9.1.gem (100%)
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Fetching: mail-2.6.4.gem (100%)
Fetching: rack-1.6.4.gem (100%)
Fetching: tilt-2.0.2.gem (100%)
Fetching: rack-protection-1.5.3.gem (100%)
Fetching: sinatra-1.4.7.gem (100%)
Fetching: sqlite3-1.3.11.gem (100%)
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Fetching: daemons-1.2.3.gem (100%)
Fetching: thin-1.5.1.gem (100%)
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Fetching: skinny-0.2.4.gem (100%)
Fetching: mailcatcher-0.6.4.gem (100%)
Fetching: mime-types-data-3.2016.0221.gem (100%)
ERROR:  Error installing mailcatcher:
    mime-types-data requires Ruby version >= 2.0.

Despite this error:

$ mailcatcher
Starting MailCatcher
==> smtp://127.0.0.1:1025
==> http://127.0.0.1:1080

+20

sj26 on Mar 28, 2016

I’m also experiencing the same issue. Hope it’s fixed soon.

matejvelikonja on Apr 1, 2016

To install on Ruby 1.9:

gem install mime-types --version "< 3"
gem install --conservative mailcatcher

You will get an error but it worked; try running mailcatcher.

sj26 on Apr 12, 2016