On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Scott Ford <scott.ford@identityforge.com> wrote:
All:
 
I have a question concerning how to download a workable version of Ruby. When I YUM INSTALL RUBY  i get ruby 1.8.6 which is great no issue but I want to do some Rails development work and
the Rails requirement is 1.8.7 or 1.9.2 so how do i point YUM to the correct Ruby.

If you're going to get involved in Ruby/Rails development, you really don't want the distribution's repositories to control your version(s) of Ruby, nor the gems you install. You also don't want the overhead of building from tarballs yourself. Check out the Ruby Version Manager, rvm, at http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/. It allows you to have multiple Rubies installed side-by-side and has some more advanced options for managing separate gemsets or configuring specialized configurations like REE, Ruby Enterprise Edition.
 
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