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Here's Ruby 1.8.5 Preview 1 #

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Hear this: Ruby 1.8.5-preview1 is out. This is a security release, fixing a number of SEGV and parse errors. Tanaka Akira has also added nonblocking socket methods. See test/socket/test_nonblock.rb for more presently. Good!

Please, don’t really install this. But do install it:

 wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.5-preview1.tar.gz
 tar xzvf ruby-1.8.5-preview1.tar.gz
 cd ruby-1.8.5
 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
 make
 make install

 export PATH="$HOME/local/bin:$PATH" 
 ruby your_test_script.rb

 cd /your/rails/app
 ruby script/server

Matz has scheduled preview2 for July 14th. The stable 1.8.5 release should be seen August 14.

Hey, alright, Eric Hodel has an explanation of how Ri and Gems can hook up with this release.

said on 24 Jun 2006 at 20:26

matz is going to go back in time to release preview2?

said on 24 Jun 2006 at 20:29

Rrrr…FFFT.

said on 24 Jun 2006 at 22:54
said on 24 Jun 2006 at 23:01

matz is going to go back in time to release preview2?

Yes, I believe that’s the power of continuations at work there.

said on 25 Jun 2006 at 03:55

M-theory has predicted Matz’s ability to travel through time. This is what allows you to use ruby technology from the year 2034 today.

said on 25 Jun 2006 at 04:06

let me suggest using --program-suffix=_whatever as a configure option, for extra comfort :)

said on 25 Jun 2006 at 10:01

oh, funny I just realized that the expected release date is my birthday :)

said on 26 Jun 2006 at 12:56

drbrain: Right, good patches, t’you.

Guys, Matz doesn’t use his time travel to affect Ruby releases. That would be cheating. He only uses it to go back and make ham sandwiches.

said on 26 Jun 2006 at 18:44

For 1.8.5p2 I have added ri command line flags to control the search path so you can just get ri for the system files, or just for gems.

said on 26 Jun 2006 at 21:43

Aww man, coulda used non-blocking sockets a month or so ago. :-/

said on 02 Jul 2006 at 05:38

—program-suffix=matz-needs-more-testers

12 Jul 2010 at 22:15

* do fancy stuff in your comment.

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