Compile Ruby 1.9 - 21st Century Edition

Needless to say, you shouldn’t even consider using such old versions in 2019. But if you have to use it after all, e.g. because the management of your company is grossly handicapped mind-bogglingly incapable, or you just have fun in getting hacked in production, these are the things to consider: ruby < 2.4 not being compatible with OpenSSL 1.1 (which is the default one on Arch) OpenSSL 1.0 still available in repos, pacman -S openssl-1....

April 2, 2019