From: slumos@...
Date: 2004-01-19T12:35:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby1.8.1 on FreeBSD

Carsten Eckelmann <careck@circle42.com> writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just installed my first FreeBSD 5.1 server and I'm wondering about 
> Ruby 1.8.1 availability on this OS. When I installed ruby from the ports 
> tree I get a version 1.6.8 only.
> 
> Please give me some pointers of where to look for info, as I'm totally 
> new to FreeBSD....
> 
> Cheers,
> Carsten.

Hmm, FYI 5.2-RELEASE is out...

If you are using the ports tree from the CD, then it predates 1.8.1.
You have a few choices:

  1) Update the ports tree.  If you want to track ports development,
     the easiest thing to do is install CVSUP.  Then you can go to the
     root of the ports tree and "make update".  Only changes will be
     transfered.  You'll have to do some reading about CVSUP in the
     Handbook.

  1') If you don't care about keeping up-to-date all the time, you can
      download a tarfile of the current ports tree.  It's a pretty big
      file (>10k ports), so you wouldn't want to do this often.

  2) Download just the ruby-1.8.1 port directory.  The only problem
     with this is that you won't get the latest version(s) of
     dependencies.  That's not such a big deal though, and (2) is much
     faster than (1').

You can read about / do all of the above at http://freebsd.org/ports.

Steve