# Oniguruma in 1.8.x?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oniguruma-in-1-8-x/147362>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 1, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oniguruma-in-1-8-x/147362 "2008-09-01T02:21:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kenneth_McDonald)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oniguruma-in-1-8-x/147362/1 "2008-09-01T02:21:54Z")

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I seem to recall reading that Oniguruma had been backported to CRuby  
1.8.x, but that doesn’t seem to be the case as of 1.8.6 (it doesn’t  
recognize named groups.) Is it somehow available in CRuby, or was I  
just plain mistaken?

Thanks,  
Ken

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**Author:** ![Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kenneth_McDonald)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oniguruma-in-1-8-x/147362/2 "2008-09-01T04:01:18Z")

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On Aug 31, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Kenneth McDonald wrote:

> I seem to recall reading that Oniguruma had been backported to CRuby  
> 1.8.x, but that doesn’t seem to be the case as of 1.8.6 (it doesn’t  
> recognize named groups.) Is it somehow available in CRuby, or was I  
> just plain mistaken?

You must manually install oniguruma and then install the oniguruma gem  
for Ruby 1.8.6

[http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/](http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/)  
[http://oniguruma.rubyforge.org/](http://oniguruma.rubyforge.org/)

Blessings,  
TwP

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**Author:** ![Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kenneth_McDonald)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2008, 6:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oniguruma-in-1-8-x/147362/3 "2008-09-01T06:40:18Z")

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Tim P. wrote:

> for Ruby 1.8.6  
> Or use Rubinius or JRuby, which include Oniguruma out of the box (in  
> JRuby it’s JOni, the Java port by Marcin Mielzynski).

- Charlie