I appreciate the irritation, but the nature of distributions is that
they are always a little behind the times. The changes to 1.8.6 are
unlikely to be sufficient to require an update to a stable release like
Feisty.
I'm going to mark this 'Fix Released' since it is updated in the Gutsy
The problem is that this version breaks one of Rails's servers. Mongrel
does not run correctly unless ruby is at 1.8.6.
Mongrel keeps trying to patch Ruby because of the version problem. On
my Ubuntu system, that patch is not working correctly, and I am not able
to serve my Rails application.
Another Ruby-talk user wrote:
thank you for putting it into the list.. and yes - do let us know
please.
you wrote: ...as Ubuntu's main focus is on workstation support
this is a workstation problem... so I hope they take care of it.
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Feisty has Ruby 1.8.5. 1.8.6 is the latest.
