rvm can no longer install 1.8.7-p352 on Mac OS X Mountain Lion

Question

I upgraded rvm to 1.15.8, then went back down to 1.15.7 after having some problems in zsh. After downgrading, my Ruby 1.9+ versions went back in fine, but 1.8.7 won\'t install a

Answer 1

it is problem in detecting tcl/tk by ruby 1.8.7, the solution is to disable it:

rvm reinstall 1.8.7 --without-tcl --without-tk

the other solution when tcl/tk is needed: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11666019/497756