# Installing an old version of rails with 1.9.1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 29, 2009, 5:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-an-old-version-of-rails-with-1-9-1/164166 "2009-03-29T05:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 5:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-an-old-version-of-rails-with-1-9-1/164166/1 "2009-03-29T05:05:00Z")
Hello, I am running Ruby 1.9.1 and Rails 2.3.2 and need a copy of Rails 2.3.0 to do some testing on a plugin. I tried sudo gem install -v 2.3.0 rails But I got the following error: ERROR: could not find gem rails locally or in a repository Also I tried to download the v2.3.0 tag from github, but I didn’t know what to do after that, cuz there is no gemspec in the top level directory. Does anybody know how to do this? Thank you, David 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 5:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-an-old-version-of-rails-with-1-9-1/164166/2 "2009-03-29T05:38:54Z")
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 8:04 PM, David B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote: > ERROR: could not find gem rails locally or in a repository > > Also I tried to download the v2.3.0 tag from github, but I didn’t know > what to do after that, cuz there is no gemspec in the top level > directory. > > Does anybody know how to do this? > > Thank you, > David 🙂 Actually, Rails 2.3.0 isn’t a official release of Rails. However, it was the first release candidate of Rails 2.3 and the second release candidate was Rails 2.3.1. The first official release of Rails 2.3 was Rails 2.3.2. Thus, I would highly recommend that you use that as the target for testing the plugin. Good luck, -Conrad