Carlos
12/18/2006 6:45:00 PM
[Trevor Turk <trevorturk@yahoo.com>, 2006-12-18 18.43 CET]
> I recently tried to run some Rails plugins (techno-weenie's White
> List) that require a version of Ruby greater than the one Debian is
> currently using. I'm wondering if anyone happens to know if/when
> Debian might upgrade to a newer version of Ruby - or if anyone knows
> if/how to install a newer version on a shared hosting plan
> (specifically, Media Temple grid server).
>
> I'm not trying to start another conversation about what Debian should
> or should not support. I don't pretend to know anything about that. I
> just need to figure out if I should (a) wait for Debian, and hopefully
> Media Temple to upgrade, (b) try to get a newer version running for
> myself on this shared hosting, or (c) forget about using plugins that
> require something newer than 1.8.2.
It's the stable release of Debian, so I don't think they'll upgrade Ruby any
more (save for security patches). The new stable version (with the Ruby
upgrade) doesn't have a release date yet, so it's better not to wait for it.
You can try the ruby package (1.8.5) from the "testing" distribution. If
that won't force you to upgrade too many other packages because of
dependencies, then that's the way to go.
If not, you'll need to build your own ruby.
Good luck.
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