I had to get a Rails project from 2008 back up and running not so long ago, wasn't much more trouble than compiling ruby 1.8.7 (or was it 1.9.3?) and installing

I had to get a Rails project from 2008 back up and running not so long ago, wasn't much more trouble than compiling ruby 1.8.7 (or was it 1.9.3?) and installing some gems. Admittedly, there were only a few dependencies in the project outside rails itself.