From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-04-23T07:37:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby or JRuby

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Hassan Schroeder
<hassan.schroeder@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> BTW I spent a day of installing and reinstalling ruby1.9 and ruby1.8
>> on the same machine and nothing I tried made them coexist without
>> *major* shell scripts for switching.
>
> ?? When I have multiple versions of anything on one system, I just
> install each to its own directory, and then have a file with something
> like, e.g. file named ~/187
>
> export RUBY_HOME=/usr/local/ruby1.8.7
> export PATH=$RUBY_HOME/bin:$PATH
>
> :: and then I just type '. 187'  -- tickety-boo and bob's yr uncle.
>
> Never had a problem from using that approach.
>
> FWIW,
> --
> Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroeder@gmail.com
>
>
I had absolutely no problem running Ruby this way. The problem I had
is with gems.
But maybe all those approaches are sound, I am notorious for
"forgetting" things, too bad one cannot do
Test Driven Installation
R

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