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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- Gary Larizza Professional Services Engineer Puppet Labs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
