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How to install guard-livereload 2.5.2 on Ruby < 2.2.5

Dominik Schöler
January 27, 2017Software engineer at makandra GmbH

There are some inconvenient Gem dependencies. Resolve them by adding/modifying these lines in your Gemfile:

  gem 'guard-livereload', '>= 2.5.2', require: false # Fixes a security issue
  gem 'listen', '< 3.1' # 3.1 requires Ruby 2.2.5
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It is not possible to install guard-livereload 2.5.2 on Ruby 1.8.7 because it depends on guard 2.8, which requires Ruby 1.9.

Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2017-01-27 14:28)