Mohammed Morsi wrote:
I had thought Ruby 1.8.7 was going to be pushed to RHEL 6, afterall I helped do a bunch of work on the RHEL package with Jim Meyering. CC'ing him here to address this question further.
Ruby 1.8.7 will indeed be in RHEL 6.0. The beta release appears to contain both 1.8.6 and 1.8.7.
1.8.7.299-3 1.8.6.399-5.1