From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2009-02-05T12:09:38+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.9.1?

On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:14:42 -0800, yuckysocks wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I'm about 2 weeks into my learning attempt at Ruby (1.8.6 is what I've
> cut my teeth on).
> 
> Can someone give me a rational assessment of the differences between the
> two language versions, and which one I should continue to pursue?
> 
> I'm mainly using Ruby with Rails to make basic webapps for my own
> edification.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Alex

AFAIK, Rails isn't available for 1.9 yet, and much of the good stuff in 
the Ruby 1.9 APIs is actually inspired by and taken from Rails. Stick 
with 1.8 for now. Learning the new stuff for 1.9 should be relatively 
easy -- I've been able to move some code I've written for 1.8, and run it 
on 1.9 without changes and all unit tests pass.

--Ken



-- 
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/