From: Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...>
Date: 2004-10-23T09:34:50+09:00
Subject: Re: 'gem install rails' error

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:09:11 +0900, Gavin Sinclair
<gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote:
> On Friday, October 22, 2004, 12:41:32 PM, Mark wrote:
> 
> >> Are you running Ruby 1.9? Rails 0.7 has a problem that.
> 
> > Well, that would be the problem :) 1.9 is so stable that I keep
> > forgetting that it's not :) I should probably move back to 1.8.2
> > stable, but I'm addicted to some of 1.9's features.
> 
> What features?

Almost missed this one :)

Really, now that I think about it, there isn't that much. The big one
is the new hash literal syntax, which I would hate to lose. (I use irb
as my shell a lot, and end ups typing in hashes more often than you
might expect :) The new regexp engine is very nice, but that's not
really a reason, since you *can* compile it into older versions of
ruby...

I know there were some other changes, but I can't think of them right
now. I'll probably discover them as I begin working with 1.8 again.

cheers,
Mark