Ruby upgrade

[Al Gordon]

On 3/7/06, Paul Thompson <ubantu001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running Ruby, Gems and Rails. The ruby I am using is the ubuntu
> one 1.8.3 which is a no no for rails.
>
> Can anyone advise me on how to safely upgrade to ruby 1.8.4. Be
> advised that I am still very much a Liniux newbie. Assistance with
> this will be most sincerely welcome.
>
> Paul

Just yesterday, I snagged Ruby .deb packages from Dapper's
repositories and installed them using dpkg onto my Ubuntu 5.10 system.
 Everything's working well.

Debian and most derived distributions often fix bugs in a release of a
package without updating the version number.  It's possible that rails
will work just fine with 5.10's included Ruby. Have you tried yet?  I
don't recall having any problems with rails on Ubuntu 5.10, but then,
I've done only very basic things with it so far.

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