From: Kevin Brown <blargity@...>
Date: 2005-11-22T10:38:35+09:00
Subject: Re: How to upgrade to Ruby1.8-3?

On Monday 21 November 2005 19:26, Jacob Quinn Shenker wrote:
> On 11/21/05, Tony <nospam2@2nospam.com> wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to upgrade Ruby? Maybe through gems?
>
> Not really. If you post your compilation troubles, we might be able to
> help.

sudo apt-get install ruby1.8

But that's only on debian based distros.  And will only upgrade you if you 
need it.  If you're on RPMs then yuck, and you're kinda out of luck unless 
you can find someone that wrapped it up for your specific distro.