From: Robert Dober Date: 2009-04-17T03:29:50+09:00 Subject: Re: Best way to install Ruby 1.9 On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Juan Zanos wrote: > I'd like to start using Ruby 1.9 more often.  Often I could use the extra > performance.  However, I'm still concerned about bugs and incompatibilities. >   Is there a practical way to use 1.9 in such a way that these potential > problems are minimized?  I mostly use Linux and OSX, and on rare occasions > Windows. Sure, install JRuby(1) and run it with --1.9 switch ;). Well if this is not an option you can do something painful like I did, I installed 1.9.1, 1.8.7 and 1.8.6 into $HOME/opt and have scripts that relink those directories to $HOME/ruby and put $HOME/ruby/bin into my PATH. However I have issues with gems and my *only* stable Ruby release is JRuby. I have aliases to all Ruby tools of JRuby like e.g. jgems, jspec, jri, jirb.... not to get completely confused, which I am anyway.... (1) Using JRuby will probably give you the extra speed for 1.8.6 too :) HTH Robert > -- Si tu veux construire un bateau ... Ne rassemble pas des hommes pour aller chercher du bois, préparer des outils, répartir les tâches, alléger le travail… mais enseigne aux gens la nostalgie de l’infini de la mer. If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry