From: Adam Fabian <afabian@...>
Date: 2004-12-03T15:43:56+09:00
Subject: What version of Ruby should I use?

I noticed the download page has a couple of options, like 1.8.1, or
1.8.2 preview 3, or the latest stable snapshot.  I did some googling and
browsing around the ruby-garden, and browsed the CVS repository itself
on the web a bit, and looked over the sections of the FAQ that seemed
likely to contain this kind of information, but I couldn't find any
information or figure out exactly how the development branches relate to
each other.  So, I have two questions.

Can anyone point me to some info explaining the Ruby branches and how
they relate to each other?

As a new user that will most certainly not be pushing the features of
the language at all, and would probably be terribly confused by a bug
(although I will probably be using such commonly-used features that I
wouldn't hit any bugs with any reasonable choice), what version should I
use?

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Adam Fabian (afabian@austin.rr.com)