Recently I had to get some old Rails 1.8 apps running so I could get some screenshots for an upcoming project. Docker containers are great for this. It took a w

Recently I had to get some old Rails 1.8 apps running so I could get some screenshots for an upcoming project. Docker containers are great for this. It took a while to get everything working, but now I can export those container images and always have a version of these old projects I can run on a container runtime. I'll never use them for production of course, but they're good historically. As others have stated, those are old implementations, but I'm sure Debain will still accept security patches for them. Python2 is about to lose major support. You cannot just let rotting dependencies stick around in your tree. You're not going to have a good time. If people really want that stuff, they can pack it into a Docker container, or Snap/Flatpack/whatever garbage for old GUI applications.