# Installing 1.x rails trough gem?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-1-x-rails-trough-gem/127346>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 28, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-1-x-rails-trough-gem/127346 "2008-01-28T14:45:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![anjelika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@anjelika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anjelika)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-1-x-rails-trough-gem/127346/1 "2008-01-28T14:45:03Z")

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Hello,  
I am new to this framework (even to ruby) and followed some books got  
things working but when I tried to install the rails through gem (on  
Windows) it installs the latest version (for wich I can’t find much  
documentation) 2.0.2.  
Now, I want to install a previous version (1.x) of rails framework…is  
that possible also through gem or do I need to install the binaries by  
myself?  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![anjelika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@anjelika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anjelika)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-1-x-rails-trough-gem/127346/2 "2008-01-28T15:08:38Z")

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On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:44:57PM +0900, Cristian G. wrote:

> Hello,  
> I am new to this framework (even to ruby) and followed some books got  
> things working but when I tried to install the rails through gem (on  
> Windows) it installs the latest version (for wich I can’t find much  
> documentation) 2.0.2.  
> Now, I want to install a previous version (1.x) of rails framework…is  
> that possible also through gem or do I need to install the binaries by  
> myself?  
> Thanks

Hello,

try gem install rails -v 1.2.6

Greetings  
Mario

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**Author:** ![anjelika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@anjelika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anjelika)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-1-x-rails-trough-gem/127346/3 "2008-01-28T16:32:56Z")

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Mario G. wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:44:57PM +0900, Cristian G. wrote:
> 
> > Hello,  
> > I am new to this framework (even to ruby) and followed some books got  
> > things working but when I tried to install the rails through gem (on  
> > Windows) it installs the latest version (for wich I can’t find much  
> > documentation) 2.0.2.  
> > Now, I want to install a previous version (1.x) of rails framework…is  
> > that possible also through gem or do I need to install the binaries by  
> > myself?  
> > Thanks
> 
> Hello,
> 
> try gem install rails -v 1.2.6
> 
> Greetings  
> Mario
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That worked, thanks.  
Actually after installing 1.2.6 and running rails --version still  
version 2.0.2 came up, but I had to uninstall (gem uninstall rails) the  
2.0.2 version and now everything looks fine.  
Thanks