Gem::InstallError: rubyzip requires Ruby version >= 2.4

Question

I ran into this error while installing ruby on rails. It says that it requires Ruby version >= 2.4 and I do not quite understand how I should solve this. I downloaded the railsinstaller packet and the ruby in it is version 2.3.3. I am currently following the tutorial from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D9d0wmwHVQ but the video does not specify the problem that I encountered here. Can anyone give me some suggestions please? Thanks!

Xu Zeng@DESKTOP-32TIA1V MINGW64 /c/railstest
$ rails new tester
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         run  bundle install
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Gem::InstallError: rubyzip requires Ruby version >= 2.4.
An error occurred while installing rubyzip (2.0.0), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install rubyzip -v '2.0.0'` succeeds before bundling.

In Gemfile:
  selenium-webdriver was resolved to 3.142.6, which depends on
    rubyzip

Xu Zeng@DESKTOP-32TIA1V MINGW64 /c/railstest
$ gem install bundler
Successfully installed bundler-2.1.2
Parsing documentation for bundler-2.1.2
Installing ri documentation for bundler-2.1.2
Done installing documentation for bundler after 6 seconds
1 gem installed

Answer 1

Deepak already wrote in his answer how to work–around this problem. But I think it might be better to use a different approach.

There is a big issue with the versions from RailsInstaller. They are all outdated and install versions of Ruby and Ruby on Rails that have already reached end-of-life. I recommend not using RailsInstaller at all.

I suggest following the official Ruby Documentation about Installation and use the RubyInstaller to install Ruby. After that just install the latest Ruby on Rails gem with

gem install bundler
gem install rails

from your command line.

Answer 2

The problem is with the version of rubyzip

You must be using the version 2.0.0 of rubyzip which requires the ruby version >=2.4.0 - Ref

In order to make it work with ruby 2.3.3 you need to downgrade the rubyzip to 1.3.0 - Ref

Add this to your Gemfile

gem 'rubyzip', '~> 1.3.0'

EDIT

Gem::InstallError: rubyzip requires Ruby version >= 2.4.
An error occurred while installing rubyzip (2.0.0), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install rubyzip -v '2.0.0'` succeeds before bundling.

In the log you can see bundler is trying to install rubyzip 2.0.0 just lock it to 1.3.0 and you are good.

For future reference, if you face similar issue just check the gemspec of the gem there you will find the required ruby version and some other dependencies