Ruby 1.8.6 and its patches

[William Muriithi]

Afternoon pals,

Red Hat 5 ships with ruby 1.8.5, old and now rarely used anywhere, if
my research is correct. The most heavily used version is 1.8.6
according to some articles I came across. And interesting, 1.8.7 is
not compatible with 1.8.6, leave alone 1.9, although this is not
pertinent here

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2007/03/12/ruby-1-8-6-released/

Now I usually end up here and download 1.8.6 and install it when
needed. Then on Friday, I got a feeling this has been a long approach
all along. I am suspecting what you will get from there does not have
any patch applied.

Question is, am I into something here? More precisely, if you were to
download the above source, would you be downloading ruby with all
patches applied (I think there is over 280 patches already) or is this
ruby as it was  on 12 Mar 2007?

If it does not include patches, where would one go to get all the
patches to bring it up to date?

William
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