From: Mohit Sindhwani <mo_mail@...>
Date: 2010-01-10T20:55:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Recommended practice for Ruby 1.8.6 and Ruby 1.9.x on Windows

On 10/1/2010 6:13 PM, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> On 10.01.2010 07:45, Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
>> Hi there!  Is there any recommended practice for using Ruby 1.8.6 and
>> Ruby 1.9.x on the same Windows PC? I do some work in Rails and a lot of
>> our stuff was written and is working fine in Ruby 1.8..6, so we're
>> hesitant (resistant?) to change it just yet.
>>
>> What I want to do is to slowly start moving to Ruby 1.9.x in parallel so
>> that I can start to see if all is well.
>>
>> Any recommendations? The 1.8.6 was installed using the One Click 
>> Installer.
>
> Just download and install 1.9 from rubyinstaller.org. It installs Ruby 
> 1.9 in its own directory by default, so that 1.8.x and 1.9 can coexist 
> happily.
>
> You can then install pik, for example (gem install pik), which allows 
> you to switch Ruby interpreters (for one console session only) on the 
> fly, and you can run your tests.
>
> This, sans pik, is my own setup, and it works rather well.

Hi Phillip,

That's reassuring - I'm off to it now!  Finally, my Ruby 3 book will 
come in handy :)

Cheers,
Mohit.
10/1/2010 | 7:55 PM.