Check out ArchLinux, their package is pretty much pristine and tracks
1.9 (current 1.9.2-p136)
2011/1/13 meaglith <gene...@gmail.com>:
> Gentoo is good choice. I install ruby 1.9.2 from source code.> -------------------------------------------------------> Blog: http://douhua.im> Twitter: http://twitter.com/genedna> Website: http://douhua.im> ------------------------------------------------------->>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:25 PM, paul h <p...@hollyer.me.uk> wrote:>>> On Jan 9, 10:10 pm, "Jon W." <djan...@gmail.com> wrote:>> > I think Ubuntu is a little confusing to new Ruby developers. I>> > personally wouldn't recommend it. Some things that bug me about it>> > (coming from a Windows background using Ruby)>> >>> > 1. Ubuntu has a Ruby 1.9.1 package that you can install, which is>> > really Ruby 1.9.2 but when you install it using Synaptic Package Manager>> > the system also installs Ruby 1.8.7 and then requires you to fiddle>> > with the symbolic links on the path of Gem and Ruby executables. Also,>> > the --update flag for ruby commands wont work if you install that way.>> > Its annoying.>> >>> > 2. RVM may be the way to go but Ubuntu doesn't have a default package>> > for installing it via Synaptic Package Manager. Another annoyance.>> >>> > So, im investigating other distros. My guess is that astandard install>> > of Debian will be the way to go. Fedora seemed a little behind the>> > times on providing recent packages also.>> >>> > If I am going to use RVM then I'll use a system which seems to expect it>> Hi Jon,>>>> I've got a CentOS 5 server running Ruby 1.9.2 no problem. The only>> package available is 1.8.5, so I needed to build from source, but it's>> straighforward enough. (I'm from Windows, moved to Linux a few months>> ago knowing nothing about 'nix - a little investigation with; a few>> good books, and mostly googling, got me the information required to>> build from source with required dependencies installed first.)>>>> I also have Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 locally with RVM installed on both>> and running different Ruby versions with different Gem's. Everything>> works fine.>>>> I want to try to build from source on Ubuntu - because I want to>> learn, (I've decided Windows is crap (especially for ruby) IMHO since>> moving to *nix - but in the meantime, RVM is ideal for me on Ubuntu.>>>> Best>>>> Paul>>>>>>>