From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-03-17T03:49:11+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.8.8dev stable snapshot?

On Mar 11, 2009, at 18:52, benr75 wrote:

> Hello ~
>
> Went to do a routine ruby install from source, grabbed a stable
> snapshot, and instead of getting an expected 1.8.7 I got:
>
> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.8dev (2009-03-11)
>
> Should this really be the STABLE snapshot? It throws up trying to
> RubyGems installed:
> $ sudo ruby setup.rb
> Password:
> /home/deploy/src/rubygems-1.3.1/lib/rubygems/version.rb:53:in
> `initialize': Malformed version number string 1.8.8.-1 (ArgumentError)
> 	from /home/deploy/src/rubygems-1.3.1/lib/rubygems.rb:676:in `new'
> 	from /home/deploy/src/rubygems-1.3.1/lib/rubygems.rb:676:in
> `ruby_version'
> 	from setup.rb:111

This is new behavior in the 1.8 branch, so RubyGems wasn't equipped to  
deal with it until last week, when I checked a fix into trunk.