upgrade ruby to 1.8.6 or newer?

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Submitted by SoftwareLibrarian on Mon, 06/28/2010 - 19:41 Pro Licensee

I want to try an external monitoring service that uses a ruby gem that requires ruby 1.8.6 or newer. The version currently installed is 1.8.5 ...

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Submitted by Joe on Mon, 06/28/2010 - 21:52 Pro Licensee

We don't provide the Ruby package, so this isn't something we control. There'd be nothing to prevent you from installing a newer Ruby version yourself, though.

I'll take this as a vote for adding Ruby to the bleeding edge packages repository for CentOS, but I'm always hesitant to take responsibility for more packages. ;-)

Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 06/29/2010 - 01:37

Yeah, a newer Ruby version for CentOS would be nice - Rails and other modules are pretty aggressive about their dependencies, and the default CentOS Ruby packages are almost too old to be used..