From: "Florian Aßmann" <florian.assmann@...>
Date: 2010-08-12T04:33:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Determining whether the running ruby is outdated?

I did in IRB

`svn ls http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags`.split.grep(/\Av\d/)
    .map { |d| `svn cat http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/#{d}version.h` }

It took a while but I had alot of information.

Am 10.08.2010 um 11:25 schrieb Lars Olsson:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm writing a small utility that shows information on the currently
> running ruby environment. One part of the utility checks whether any
> gems is outdated, but I also want to check if the ruby interpreter
> itself is outdated. Getting the currently installed version is simple,
> but getting a list of released ruby versions seems a bit trickier. I'm
> mainly interested in *stable* source versions, but I don't mind if my
> utility lists development and rc versions as well.
> 
> Does anyone know a good way of checking this? My first try was to use
> the ruby github mirror to fetch available tags. Then I tried using
> svn.ruby-lang.org to get the same information, but neither of those
> gave me the information I wanted in a simple way.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to solve this?
> 
> /lasso
>