From: Rick DeNatale Date: 2009-05-06T04:05:23+09:00 Subject: Re: Should I upgrade Ruby from 1.8.5 to 1.8.7? On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Juan Zanos wrote: > It might not be that hard to suck every version of the Ruby source into git. >   Then they could all be downloaded efficiently all at once.   After that a > ruby script could build several of the key stable versions, install them, > and then install another script called something like rubyswitch.  Running > rubyswitch  would change the currently active version by changing > the path.  Then the test cycle would be faster and falling back would be > trivial. > If the interest is in testing against various versions of Ruby then there are already tools for that, for example the ZenTest gem includes the executables multiruby_setup and multiruby which install multiple versions and test using them respectively. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale