Ruby upgrade

[Wade Smart]

06082006 0916 GMT-6

Noticed you were talking about Ruby. Can you recommend a solid 
discussion group. I got ruby just recently and have been working with it 
just a bit but have lots of questions.

Wade

Al Gordon wrote:

>On 3/7/06, Paul Thompson <ubantu001 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>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
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>
>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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