Update Ruby Version!

Rails
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Hey guys

I am running Ruby 1.8.7 on Ubuntu 10.04

How can I update it to 1.9.1? I tried instaling the 1.9.1 package,
everything seemed to work, but if I run “ruby -v” it still says
1.8.7.

I might be doing something wrong… so can someone plot out the steps
to updating the ruby version?

Thank you

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On Jul 9, 2010, at 3:21 PM, David Z. wrote:

Hey guys

I am running Ruby 1.8.7 on Ubuntu 10.04

How can I update it to 1.9.1? I tried instaling the 1.9.1 package,
everything seemed to work, but if I run “ruby -v” it still says
1.8.7.

I might be doing something wrong… so can someone plot out the steps
to updating the ruby version?

Doesn’t ruby install itself into ruby1.9? I know on my debian box,
‘ruby’ is aliases to ‘ruby1.8’.

I bet you have the same issue.

-philip

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David Z. wrote:

Hey guys

I am running Ruby 1.8.7 on Ubuntu 10.04

How can I update it to 1.9.1? I tried instaling the 1.9.1 package,
everything seemed to work, but if I run “ruby -v” it still says
1.8.7.

I might be doing something wrong… so can someone plot out the steps
to updating the ruby version?

Thank you

I know this isn’t exactly what you were asking, but look into RVM (Ruby
Version Manager) [1]. It makes is pretty easy to have multiple versions
of Ruby on your system.

Peace.

[1] http://rvm.beginrescueend.com

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On 7/10/10, Phillip K. [email protected] wrote:

to updating the ruby version?

Thank you

I know this isn’t exactly what you were asking, but look into RVM (Ruby
Version Manager) [1]. It makes is pretty easy to have multiple versions
of Ruby on your system.

Peace.

[1] http://rvm.beginrescueend.com

I was just about to suggest this. I run it with both Ruby 1.8.7 and
Ruby 1.9.2. It is actually quite handy.

Regards,

Fidel.