From: Cali Wildman Date: 2008-06-24T10:06:52+09:00 Subject: Upgrading Ruby I currently have Ruby 1.8.5 and Rails 1.2.3. I want to upgrade Ruby to 1.8.6 and Rails to 2.1. I have a Windows XP development machine and FC6 production box. I can't find a clean up to upgrade Ruby without blowing away the installed gems. Someone suggested this workaround: There's no ruby update AFAIK. You can work around this by renaming c:\ruby to something else, installing ruby, then overwrite C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems with the old version and call 'gem update' to fetch the new versions. I am in the middle of trying that now but I stopped with the following concerns: 1) current gems include Rails like actionmailer, actionpack, actionrecord, etc. plus a number of other gems I installed. If I run gem update, won't this update Rails to 2.1 automatically? 2) I also have mongrel gems installed and remembered something having to install Windows specific packages (can't recall off the top of my now the details), so I am worried that this wouldn't be handled properly. 3) I also installed htree but I can't tell if it is a gem, so I can't be sure that it will be handled properly. I am sure I am not the only guy that is trying to upgrade Ruby, can anyone help me? Thanks in advance. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.