Have you checked out the packages that Karanbir Singh has created?  They
work fairly well --> http://centos.karan.org/el5/ruby187/


On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Dan White <[email protected]> wrote:

> Great to hear this, but I am now looking for a reliable way to get Ruby
> 1.8.7 or 1.9.3 onto a RHEL-5 system.  The environment I am working still
> has RHEL 3 and 4 machines running, and I would not hold my breath waiting
> for transition to RHEL 6 (which does have ruby 1.8.7 in it)
>
> One more thing: When I say "reliable", it has to be able to convince a
> non-technical PHB type.
>
> Suggestions ?
>
> On Apr 13, 2012, at 2:59 PM, Michael Stahnke wrote:
>
> > Puppet Labs is happy to announce full support for Ruby 1.9.3 will be
> part of
> > the next major release of Puppet, codenamed Telly.  Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.3
> are
> > considered the primary supported Ruby versions, on all platforms
> including
> > Unix, Linux, Windows, and MacOS-X.  Ruby 1.8.5 is also supported, on the
> agent
> > only.
> >
> > The Puppet 2.7 series featured initial support for the Ruby 1.9 series,
> and we
> > are happy to see that work completed and brought forward to full
> production
> > support in the forthcoming release.
> >
> > Other Ruby versions including 1.8.6, 1.9.1, and 1.9.2 are not officially
> > supported. Ruby implementations other than the "MRI" series are not
> officially
> > supported. We will accept patches that fix issues on other (non MRI)
> > Ruby systems.
> >
> > 1.9.3 was selected due to its inclusion in Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) and
> > Ubuntu Precise Pangolin.
> >
> > Previews of Telly should be available in May. If you'd like to see some
> of the
> > changes happening today, you are also welcome to run Puppet's master
> branch.
> >
> > If you have questions or concerns, feel free to respond here.
> >
> > Mike Stahnke
> > Community Manager
>
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