On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Mike Jackson <imikejack...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ruby: I could not figure out the difference between "normal" ruby and > "enterprise" ruby so I defaulted to the "normal" ruby that ships with Ubuntu > 10.04. If Enterprise Ruby is pretty much a drop in replacement then that > could certainly be used. I can make some notes in the gitorious installation > section noting such. > There are actually quite a few Ruby versions out there these days: - Ruby 1.8.6, aka. MRI (Matz' Ruby Implementation). An older Ruby, still in use some places - Ruby 1.8.7: a partial back port of some features found in Ruby 1.9. Does not change *everything*, most Rails sites uses this these days - Ruby 1.9.1: the first official release of YARV (Yet Another Ruby VM), which introduces quite a few incompatible changes compared to 1.8.6. We used this version on gitorious.org previously, but found encoding issues (1.9 is encoding aware) and lacking Rails support to be show stoppers - Ruby 1.9.2: The 1.9 release targeted by the Rails team. - Ruby Enterprise Edition: A 1.8.7 build with some major performance enhancements which make a big difference when deploying Rails apps. This is what gitorious.org uses, but it is not in any Linux distro repositories afaik In addition to a few implementations not written in C: - JRuby: written in java, running on the JVM. A very fast Ruby, Gitorious currently doesn't run on jruby - Rubinius: Ruby written in Ruby. Inspired by Smalltalk implementations, Rubinius implements only some bare primitives in C; most of Rubinius is written in Ruby itself. I haven't tried running Gitorious under Rubinius, it may work in Rails 3 Cheers, - Marius -- To post to this group, send email to gitorious@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gitorious+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
