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 In other cases, please use a system Ruby or [install Ruby manually](https://github.com/postmodern/chruby/wiki#installing-rubies) instead.
 
+On a self-hosted runner you need to define the `ImageOs` as an evironment variable on the host, you can do this in the `~/actions-runner/.env` file (See [#230](https://github.com/ruby/setup-ruby/issues/230)).
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 ## History
 
 This action used to be at `eregon/use-ruby-action` and was moved to the `ruby` organization.