Ruby 1.9

Majorix · 2009-02-09 21:22:01

I have 3 questions:
- When will this release be officially supported by the Archlinux team instead of a community-driven release?
- Is it OK if I install Ruby 1.9 from AUR or should I perhaps wait for the official?
- What are the books/tutorials available which talk about this version of Ruby?

Thanks for reading.

skottish · 2009-02-09 21:36:58

Majorix wrote:

I have 3 questions:
- When will this release be officially supported by the Archlinux team instead of a community-driven release?
- Is it OK if I install Ruby 1.9 from AUR or should I perhaps wait for the official?
- What are the books/tutorials available which talk about this version of Ruby?
Thanks for reading.

The last I heard Arch is looking for a Ruby maintainer. It was announced on a couple of the mailing lists. If you're interested, this is the end of one of the threads:

http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch … 10169.html

Allan · 2009-02-09 21:58:14

Nobody seems to want to maintain ruby so it looks like I will be doing the 1.8 -> 1.9 transition... Given most things need ported to this, I am in no great rush to do this transition. You can put a "ruby19" package in the AUR in the meantime if you like.

celthias · 2009-02-09 22:17:26

Majorix wrote:

- What are the books/tutorials available which talk about this version of Ruby?

http://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Programming- … 0596516177
http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ruby3/pr … g-ruby-1-9

Both are aimed at 1.9, the first is my favourite but the previous version of the Pickaxe was THE Ruby book for a long time. The first's structure is based on the old K&R, it is very comprehensive and is also co-authored by Matz himself. Have fun!

Majorix · 2009-02-10 12:19:19

@skottish & Allan:
I really hope someone finds the time to port this.

@celthias:
I heard of both of the books you mentioned. The PragProg book isn't out yet it seems (I must admit I had never seen a "BETA" book before) but the first one might do the trick. I didn't know it supported .9, but I will check it out since you mention it does. Thanks for the tip.

cu3edweb · 2009-02-12 21:08:50

Allan wrote:

Nobody seems to want to maintain ruby so it looks like I will be doing the 1.8 -> 1.9 transition... Given most things need ported to this, I am in no great rush to do this transition. You can put a "ruby19" package in the AUR in the meantime if you like.

As much as I would want to give back to the arch community I just don't have enough ruby or programming knowledge to help with this. I wish I did I would be more then glad to help.

damjan · 2009-02-13 00:20:18

Afaik ruby 1.9 is a pretty major change from 1.8 and a lot of ruby modules and programs will need porting. similar to Python 3.0 .. So I wouldn't rush replacing 1.8 with 1.9 in Arch any time soon.

next year maybe

V01D · 2009-02-15 17:41:43

Hi, I've been maintaining the ruby1.9 pkg in AUR some time ago. I have that one installed in parallel with 1.8. I tried it on my code for some projects (which even use C extensions) and it worked without problems. I would suggest people start testing it with stuff that depends on ruby from the official pkgs. In any case, projects will start updating their code to 1.9, since it's been around as a preview and rc for a while now.

elliottcable · 2009-05-02 12:20:12

Hey all. I'm a bit new to Arch, but I'm a hardcore Rubyist. I've been using Ruby 1.9 instead of Ruby 1.8 for, well, more than 99% of everything I do, and it's served me very well. Almost everything that matters out there has been upgraded to work with Ruby 1.9.

I've sent an e-mail to BaSh (Andrea?) about becoming the Ruby maintainer for Arch, though I'm not sure yet what all that entails. We shall see.

I'm working on my first AUR package right now, an Arch-ification of my well-evolved script to install multiple versions of Ruby side by side. Look for the "multiruby" AUR package, I should have it up today or tomorrow (depending on how much time I have).

Allan · 2009-05-02 12:43:07

As I just responded on the arch-dev-public list, this needs to be maintained by a dev as there are several packages in the [extra] repo that depend on ruby. I am waiting on the vi/vim/gvim change to deal with the upgrade to ruby-1.9.

drmikehenry · 2010-02-21 14:41:27

Allan wrote:

As I just responded on the arch-dev-public list, this needs to be maintained by a dev as there are several packages in the [extra] repo that depend on ruby. I am waiting on the vi/vim/gvim change to deal with the upgrade to ruby-1.9.

As of Patch 7.2.368, the Ruby interface for Vim has been updated to
work with Ruby 1.9:

http://osdir.com/ml/general/2010-02/msg21930.html

It would be nice to have --enable-rubyinterp turned back on.

Thanks,
Michael Henry

Arch Linux

#1 2009-02-09 21:22:01

Ruby 1.9

#2 2009-02-09 21:36:58

Re: Ruby 1.9

#3 2009-02-09 21:58:14

Re: Ruby 1.9

#4 2009-02-09 22:17:26

Re: Ruby 1.9

#5 2009-02-10 12:19:19

Re: Ruby 1.9

#6 2009-02-12 21:08:50

Re: Ruby 1.9

#7 2009-02-13 00:20:18

Re: Ruby 1.9

#8 2009-02-15 17:41:43

Re: Ruby 1.9

#9 2009-05-02 12:20:12

Re: Ruby 1.9

#10 2009-05-02 12:43:07

Re: Ruby 1.9

#11 2010-02-21 14:41:27

Re: Ruby 1.9

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