From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2011-09-15T09:53:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Can I Safely Use Rubinius While Learning?

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Aaron Jackson <jacksonaaronc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am still at the beginning of my learning path, but I have heard a lot
> about Rubinius and I am interested in using it. I am wondering if I
> should wait until I have finished learning Ruby using MRI or if I can
> safely use Rubinus without fear of running into incompatibilities that
> will confuse the matter.

Actually, you could install all the different versions you'd like to.
Depending on your OS, you can use RVM (on Linux, and *NIX), or pik (on
Windows), to install and/or use several Rubies in parallel.

Then, you can just use RVM's or pik's capabilities of running a script
against multiple Rubies, and see if you have a bug in your script, or
if the runtime you are using is buggy (in which case the maintainers
will be happy to learn about the issues!).

And, of course, you can ask on this here mailing list / forum, too. :)

RVM's home: https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/
pik's home: https://github.com/vertiginous/pik

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Phillip Gawlowski

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A method of solution is perfect if we can forsee from the start,
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