I''ve been trying to sort out my ruby and rails installations to make
sure that I''m using the same ruby path as my co-developers and
I''ve
had a devil of a time building the "stable release" from here:
http://ruby-lang.org/en/20020102.html ... so I tried the "stable
snapshot" and was able to get it built along with rubygems without
problems.
Then I was referred to this post:
http://blog.rubyonrails.org/archives/2005/07/09/are-you-running-the-final-version-of-ruby-1-8-2
which says:
"A fair number of people have been having problems with Rails 0.13
because it relies on behavior present in the final version of Ruby
1.8.2. That''s the one released on December 25th, 2004. You can check
if you have the proper version by doing ruby -v, which should return
"ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25)".
If it doesn''t, you need to upgrade. Releases from before December 25th
are beta releases that are not ensure to be compatible with Rails."
Does that mean that I specifically need 1.8.2 from December 25th, or
will the latest "stable snapshot" work (it actually says 1.8.3)?
As a bonus, what is the preferred directory to install ruby in?
Darwin ports likes /opt/local/bin by default, but I''ve heard that
/usr/local/bin is the "standard" place to put it. Is there a
convention here as to what the ruby path should be?
