From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-06-08T06:49:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9 and gems

On Saturday 07 June 2008 16:35:49 Leslie Viljoen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'd like to try Ruby1.9 on some of my projects but I'm not sure how it
> gels with the existing
> Ruby install.

Ubuntu installed it as a ruby1.9 command, and gem1.9, etc. In theory, it 
should work.

Unfortunately, it does occasionally cause stupidity -- for example, I'll have 
rake installed for ruby1.9, and a rake task will end up calling ruby1.9 by 
name, as part of trying to install a ruby1.8 gem (doesn't work, needless to 
say).

I suspect that there's a way to get them to cooperate short of virtualization, 
though.

> Do most of the gems even 
> work under 1.9?

Most I've tried have worked.

> Specifically, I need ActionPack.

I think someone has made it work. I'm fairly sure it doesn't out of the box.