From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2007-12-27T17:45:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Purpose of Ruby 1.9?

On Dec 27, 2007, at 8:53 AM, botp wrote:

> On Dec 27, 2007 7:11 AM, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 26, 2007, at 4:53 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote:
>>> I'm a little concerned that some folks are jumping on 1.9 as an
>>> immediate replacement for Ruby 1.8, which it isn't.
>> Me too:
>> http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2007/12/ruby-19right-fo.html
>
> will it be "safe" to say that the baptism of fire for ruby1.9 is
> lettting it run/support rails 2.0.2 without errors?

Wouldn't that be a Rails goal?

The reason Rails does not run on 1.9 are to my knowledge  
incompatibilities, it is not due to 1.9 not being production-ready.  
People have been sending compatibility patches to Rails, but work  
remains to be done.

-- fxn