Supporting newer gems on old ruby (here: Celluloid)

Question

Is it possible, by using backports or something similar, to install and use gems that require a higher version of ruby than what is installed?

I am stuck on 1.8 and I am having troubles with the celluloid gem in relation with rspec. I thought that maybe backports would enable me to use it since most/all ruby 1.9.2+ features are then made available.

Answer 1

Forking celluloid on github and using backports to bring it down to 1.8 would be one possibility.

Although not a very simple one! :-)