From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2008-11-26T23:20:20+09:00
Subject: Re: time to back peddle? (Ruby 1.8.7)

On Nov 26, 7:55 am, Trans <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just updated my Ubuntu system and was a bit surprised to find:
>
>   $ ruby -v
>   ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux]
>
> I've heard nothing but bad commentary on this version of Ruby. What's
> the word? Should I down-grade?

This happened to me, and it was an "uh-oh" moment for me too. I think
my bad feeling about it comes from Rails. Although I've heard that
Rails 2.1+ has 1.8.7 compatibility, the official site (http://
www.rubyonrails.org/down) hasn't been updated with respect to its
stance on ruby versions.

-- Mark.