ruby version

[Anshu Prateek]

Thanks Colin, Brian,

Well this is in production where managing ruby through other managers would
be a pain. (Its presently managed via puppet).

So, as a follow up, is ruby2.1 from 15.04 can be repackaged (lets say for a
private repo) and then be used with 14.04?

On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 at 13:13 Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8 June 2015 at 06:38, Anshu Prateek <anshprat at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This could be an already discussed topic but google search did not help
> me
> > with this.
> >
> > In trusty, the stable ruby is 1.9.3-p484.
> >
> > While ruby has EOLed 1.9.3
> >
> >
> https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2015/02/23/support-for-ruby-1-9-3-has-ended/
> >
> > There is a ruby2.0 available, but that also has ruby as dependency hence
> > again pulling 1.9.3.
> >
> > So whats the plan about about upgrading ruby stable to supported version?
>
> Ubuntu policy is generally to not upgrade major releases of software.
> For example, in this case if it automatically updated then some ruby
> code would suddenly stop working.
>
> If you upgrade Ubuntu you will of course get a later ruby.  On 15.04 it is
> 2.1.0
>
> However I absolutely concur with Brian's suggestion to use rvm.  Then
> you can easily upgrade and also have multiple versions of Ruby
> available on the same machine so that existing code will continue to
> function.
>
> Colin
>
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