Rails 2.3 Works With Ruby 1.9.1 (stable)
Many people don’t know that Ruby 1.9.1 is actually considered stable (due to the odd numbering). Ruby 1.9.1 is based on the exciting (yarv-based) branch of ruby, which promises to be several times faster than the old version of ruby, and offer new features with respect to threading. Here is What’s new in Ruby 1.9.1
As you can see from the Ruby on Rails 2.3 Release Notes , all of the rails tests now pass with ruby 1.9.1. So what’s the problem? Well, many basic gems and plugins are not compatible with ruby 1.9 yet. Really, what should amount to only a few hours work for each gem maintainer is holding everyone back here, it seems.
This guy actually got Rails to work with ruby 1.9.1, but man, that looks like a hassle: Ruby 1.9.1 and Friends
I’m thinking of putting together an amazon ami to use rails with ruby 1.9.1. Would anyone be interested in that?
Whilst I appreciate the trackback, please realise that the post was written on January 31st (long before Rails 2.3 was released). I have yet to update it and it’s one of the many things I would like to do this coming weekend. It shouldn’t be that much of a hassle.
Rhett: Just checking about AMI.. Is AMI with Ruby 1.9.1 is available? I am sure load of clicks waiting for such release. Appreciate, if i can work on AMI.