comp.lang.ruby

Jano Svitok

6/25/2008 11:05:00 PM

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 00:42, jfry <jeff.fry@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking to upgrade to 1.8.6-p230 on Windows XP. I initially
> installed with the One Click Installer, and am currently running: ruby
> 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i386-mswin32]
>
> Searching, I see this suggestion to use the One Click Installer again:
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-t...
>
> ...with a warning that I'll lose my gems unless I work around it by
> renaming
> c:\ruby to something else, installing ruby, then overwrite
> C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems with the old version and call 'gem update' to
> fetch the new versions.
>
> Is that advice still true? Anything you'd recommend instead?

1. I have written response to a similar thread this morning.
2. You might want to wait with the upgrade, as 230 is known to be
broken. See recent threads here and on ruby-core.
Alternatively, use the patched provided instead of the "upstream" 230.