From: Ralf Mueller <ralf.mueller@...>
Date: 2013-02-25T17:43:07+09:00
Subject: Re: How to upgrade ruby to the latest version in ubuntu ?

On 02/25/2013 09:30 AM, Love U Ruby wrote:
> Kiswono Prayogo wrote in post #1098865:
>> you can use brightbox's ppa
>> refer to this link: http://wiki.brightbox.co.uk/docs:ruby-ng
>> or:
>> http://blog.brightbox.co.uk/posts/next-generation-ruby-packages-for-ubuntu
>> or: http://docs.brightbox.com/ruby/ubuntu/
>>
>> no ruby 2.0 yet though..
> Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> I wanted to know why the version 'Ruby 1.9.3-p392' has not been updated
> while I used the below?
>
> sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.3
>
> the above installed the version : "ruby 1.9.3p194"
>
I guess, p194 was the current version when 12.10 was released. You'll only get security updates for your 
packages (if the maintainer takes care about this). If you want to get the latest version automatically, you 
should not use release-based linux distros (like debian,ubuntu, rh,...). It's not the philosophy behind 
releases, that you'll get bleeding edge versions for everything. I'm using archlinux for  several years now, 
which has a rolling (i.e. no) release cycle - it's not perfectly stable, but I always get the latest version 
for most of the packages, e.g. ruby: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ruby.

hth
ralf