Ruby 1.8.6 and its patches

[Fabio FZero]

If your main objective is to use Ruby on Rails, I'd recommend you to
skip the official distribution and get Ruby Enterprise Edition. Aside
from being an optimized build that enables the copy-on-write feature
of Phusion Passenger (mod_rails), it's made to ensure total
compatibility with rails.

http://www.rubyenterpriseedition.com/
http://www.modrails.com/

I use both on debian-based production servers, but both packages come
with wizard-style scripts to build everything from source.

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FZero - finally sending my first email to TLUG. :-)

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 5:27 PM, William Muriithi
<william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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