From: Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Date: 2007-07-01T18:44:17+09:00
Subject: Re: apt-get installs 1.8.5 on ubuntu 7.0.4

"The simplest long term solution is to not use ubuntu packages for
ruby.  It installs from source very easily and you can always install
whatever version you want.  In addition you don't have to learn or try
to remember which package contains this and that core functionality
that comes in the source install by default."

May I add to this :) that i compile ruby from source always, it is one 
of the best-behaving packages for this (to me), much nicer than perl's 
annoying default way to ask you quite many questions (although you can 
suppress this, i still dont like it. I like gnu autoconfigure in this 
regard..:)
Ruby resides in /Programs/Ruby/Version and is symlinked to a central dir 
(and libs). This way you can even switch to another version easily 
("Version" in this example is for instance 1.8.6)
I am not saying the way is better than the traditional one, but for me 
it works a lot nicer as the dir layout is more structure for me (and if 
i want i can just remove the dir easily again. Btw for compiling i use 
ruby scripts and a chroot jail)

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