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Error after install colorls on Arch Linux

Found error unicode-display_width or something when run command colorls
Installation URL https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-colorls
Problem : Could not find 'unicode-display_width'

/usr/lib/ruby/3.4.0/rubygems/specification.rb:1421:in 'block in Gem::Specification#activate_dependencies': Could not find 'unicode-display_width' (>= 1.7, < 3.0) among 69 total gem(s) (Gem::MissingSpecError)
Checked in 'GEM_PATH=/home/doza/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.4.0:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.4.0' at: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.4.0/specifications/colorls-1.5.0.gemspec, execute `gem env` for more information
        from /usr/lib/ruby/3.4.0/rubygems/specification.rb:1407:in 'Array#each'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/3.4.0/rubygems/specification.rb:1407:in 'Gem::Specification#activate_dependencies'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/3.4.0/rubygems/specification.rb:1389:in 'Gem::Specification#activate'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/3.4.0/rubygems.rb:290:in 'block in Gem.activate_bin_path'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/3.4.0/rubygems.rb:289:in 'Thread::Mutex#synchronize'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/3.4.0/rubygems.rb:289:in 'Gem.activate_bin_path'
        from /usr/bin/colorls:25:in '<main>'

Solved :

gem install unicode-display_width -v ">= 1.7, < 3.0"
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