From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-05-27T20:20:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Updating rubygems and rake for ruby-1.9

On May 27, 1:00 am, bbiker <ren...@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> On May 26, 8:17 pm, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On May 26, 5:51 pm, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote:
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> > > On May 25, 2009, at 05:14, Chauk-Mean Proum wrote:
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> > > > There have been updates to rubygems and rake recently.
>
> > > > I'm just wondering if it is safe to update my ruby-1.9.1-p129
> > > > installation with these updates ?
>
> > > Unless the release notes state otherwise, I would assume it is safe.
>
> > I've tried to install 1.3.3 over 1.9.1-p129 without success, so I
> > think better instructions on this subject (RubyGems on top of 1.9.1)
> > will be awesome.
>
> > :-D
>
> > --
> > Luis Lavena
>
> I am kicking the tires on ruby-1.9.1-p129-i386-mingw32 and I am quite
> happy with it. I have also install the devkit.
>

That is great to hear!

> I have successfully upgrade gem-1.3.1 to  the1.3.3 version using the
> standard instructions.
>
> gem19 update --system
>

Weird, I couldn't do it the last time, maybe now updates?

> I have also download gems that require c-extensions, the native
> extensions are complle with the devkit.

Yup, there is no workaround that ;-)

> Currently I have 4 different ruby versions co-existing in Windows XP
> SP3.
>
> ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32]

Same here, 2 mswin32, 2 mingw32 and 1 Jruby.

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Luis Lavena