From: spox <spox@...>
Date: 2009-07-08T00:52:09+09:00
Subject: Re: How to upgrade ruby to a specific version

On Tuesday 07 July 2009 04:55:01 Tom Ha wrote:
> Sorry, I didn't know that...
>
> I actually use Ubuntu (9.04).

And while Ubuntu has confirmed the bug, and it has been fixed in Debian 
unstable, it still remains an open issue:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby1.8/+bug/385436

Best bet is to download the source and compile it yourself at this point. 
Link:

ftp://ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.6-p369.tar.gz