From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...>
Date: 2009-04-23T22:58:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby or JRuby

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Marc Heiler <shevegen@linuxmail.org> wrote:

> Just look at the workaround provided before:

Never thought of it as a 'workaround' -- just the way to install multiple
versions of anything :-)

> /usr/local/ruby1.8.6/bin/ruby
> /usr/local/ruby1.8.7/bin/ruby
> /usr/local/ruby1.9.0/bin/ruby

> I do however think that these directories look ugly, and wont be in the
> default search path anyway.

Well, "ugly" is in the eye of the beholder, certainly, but I like being able
to`ls /usr/local` and see at a glance what versions of what are installed.

And "not in the default path" is the whole point -- the version available
to a given shell instance is /only/ what you explicitly put in your path.

YMMV,
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