title: has anyone been able to get ruby 1.8.7 , rails 2.3.x working on rvm on osx mavericks?
body: <p>I just upgraded to mavericks, directly from lion (there didn't seem to be any way to go to mountain lion). I have many old rails projects with different ruby &amp; rails versions. On lion I was able to work fine in ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2 and 1.9.2 and switch nicely between them. 1.8.7 was the system ruby so it wasn't really in rvm, so I did rvm use system to use it.</p>
  
  <p>When I upgraded my system env became ruby 2, so I tried to install ruby 1.87 and ran into tons of problems.</p>
  
  <p>I ended up imploding my rvm several times to work through all the issues but still cant seem to get my 1.8.7 environment fully working. I have several gems that require native compilation.</p>
  
  <p>My latest issue is this: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7829886/in-require-no-such-file-to-load-iconv-loaderror">in `require&#39;: no such file to load -- iconv (LoadError) </a> but none of the solutions work for me.</p>
  
  <p>I am wondering if maybe I am the only one stuck in such a situation, I cant find any guides out there to get this all working...Any suggestions?</p>
  
  <p>Here is my current stack trace:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p374/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:53:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- iconv (LoadError)
  from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p374/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:53:in `require'
  from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p374@global/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/inflector.rb:3
  from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p374/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:53:in `gem_original_require'
  from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p374/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:53:in `require'
  from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p374@global/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/core_ext/integer/inflections.rb:1
  from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p374/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:53:in `gem_original_require'
  from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p374/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:53:in `require'
  from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p374@global/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/core_ext/integer.rb:2
  from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p374/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:53:in `gem_original_require'
  from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p374/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:53:in `require'
  from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p374@global/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/core_ext.rb:8
  from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p374@global/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/core_ext.rb:8:in `each'
  from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p374@global/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/core_ext.rb:8
  from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p374/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:53:in `gem_original_require'
  from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p374/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:53:in `require'
  from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p374@global/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support.rb:55
  from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p374/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:53:in `gem_original_require'
  from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p374/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:53:in `require'
  from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p374@global/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/commands/server.rb:1
  from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p374/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:53:in `gem_original_require'
  from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p374/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:53:in `require'
  from script/server:4
  </code></pre>