In case you want to use pry Show archive.org snapshot with an older version of Ruby, you can try the following configurations.

Ruby 1.8.7

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Ruby 1.9.3

Your pry version must not be greater than 0.9.9.

gem 'debugger', '=1.1.4'
gem 'pry-debugger', '=0.2.0'
gem 'pry', '=0.9.9'

Known errors

No source for ruby-1.9.3-p551 provided with debugger-ruby_core_source gem

Installing debugger-linecache 1.1.2 with native extensions
Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

  /home/user/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p551/bin/ruby extconf.rb
checking for vm_core.h... no
checking for vm_core.h... no
Makefile creation failed
**************************************************************************
  No source for ruby-1.9.3-p551 provided with debugger-ruby_core_source gem.
    **************************************************************************
  *** extconf.rb failed ***
  Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
  necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
	--with-opt-dir
	--without-opt-dir
	--with-opt-include
	--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
  --with-opt-lib
  --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
  --with-make-prog
  --without-make-prog
  --srcdir=.
    --curdir
  --ruby=/home/user/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p551/bin/ruby
  --with-ruby-dir
  --without-ruby-dir
  --with-ruby-include
  --without-ruby-include=${ruby-dir}/include
  --with-ruby-lib
  --without-ruby-lib=${ruby-dir}/lib


  Gem files will remain installed in /home/user/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p551/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/debugger-linecache-1.1.2 for inspection.
    Results logged to /home/user/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p551/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/debugger-linecache-1.1.2/ext/trace_nums/gem_make.out

  An error occurred while installing debugger-linecache (1.1.2), and Bundler cannot continue.
      Make sure that `gem install debugger-linecache -v '1.1.2' --source 'https://rubygems.org/'` succeeds before bundling.

    In Gemfile:
    pry-debugger was resolved to 0.2.0, which depends on
  debugger was resolved to 1.1.4, which depends on
  debugger-linecache

Fix: Use debugger version 1.1.4:

gem 'debugger', '=1.1.4'

RuntimeError: can't modify frozen String

RuntimeError: can't modify frozen String
	/home/user/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p551/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/version.rb:191:in `strip!': #stringify_keys - returns hash or session hash with keys stringified
  /home/user/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p551/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/version.rb:191:in `initialize'
	/home/user/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p551/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pry-0.13.1/lib/pry/pry_class.rb:13:in `new'
	/home/user/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p551/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pry-0.13.1/lib/pry/pry_class.rb:13:in `<class:Pry>'
/home/user/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p551/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pry-0.13.1/lib/pry/pry_class.rb:6:in `<top (required)>'
	/home/user/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p551/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
	/home/user/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p551/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
/home/user/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p551/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pry-0.13.1/lib/pry.rb:61:in `<top (required)>'
	/home/user/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p551/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:60:in `require'
	/home/user/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p551/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:60:in `rescue in require'
/home/user/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p551/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:35:in `require'

Fix: Upgrade rubygems to version 2: