Eric Hodel
2/27/2007 11:29:00 PM
On Feb 27, 2007, at 05:39, Damian Terentyev wrote:
> I have problems installing and running RubyGems with Ruby 1.9.
> Most of all they arise because of File.exists? method was changed
> to File.exist?, but there may be other inconsistencies as well.
Do you have a patch? Please file it in the RubyGems bug tracker.
(If you post it here, I'm sure it will get lost.)
> Has anyone successfully installed RubyGems for 1.9?
Not recently, no. 1.9 is too much of a moving target to say any
particular piece of software is guaranteed to work with it.
> Maybe it is possible to get RubyGems from subversion repository?
Unlikely. I don't believe any such changes have been made.
> I also have another question — maybe anyone knows what was the
> purpose of changing the name of the aforementioned method, because
> at first sight it seems to contradict Ruby english-like syntax and
> the Principle of Least Surprise.
It was deprecated in 1.8.