From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2011-03-25T06:22:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby corrupts after a period of time

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Chip Burke <cburke@innova-partners.com> wrote:
>> Thanks.  Do you have any hosts running 1.9 that was not installed over
>> a 1.8 install?  (I assume your hosts that only ever had 1.8 installed
>> never behaved like this.)
>
> Correct. 1.8.x installs have been stable for a long while starting with
> 1.8.5 several years back. And these are all indeed upgrades from 1.8.x.
>
> RVM has been discussed but the thought was get 1.9.x working first as a
> proof of concept, but I suppose RVM could work the opposite way and
> insulate versions. Regardless, one would think you could get a global
> install of 1.9.2 working as Fedora and CentOS aren't exactly back water
> odd ball distros.

I have run 1.9.x on CentOS (PREFIX=/usr/local) with no issues, but I
don't know why you *later* have trouble installing it over 1.8.7 in
/usr.