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Re: Ruby 1.9.3 released

#11

Post by cmer » Sun, Oct 30, 2011, 3:34 PM UTC

I've never been so excited for an unstable release. 1.9.2's require was painfully slow without the patch.

edit: by "unstable", I mean a dot.uneven number.

Re: Ruby 1.9.3 released

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Post by jstepien » Sun, Oct 30, 2011, 3:37 PM UTC

cmer wrote: post #11

I've never been so excited for an unstable release. 1.9.2's require was painfully slow without the patch. edit: by "unstable", I mean a dot.uneven number.

A 'point release' might be the phrase you are looking for.

Re: Ruby 1.9.3 released

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Post by algorithms » Sun, Oct 30, 2011, 3:51 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #9

lilpirate wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah! I plan on to start learning Ruby.

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Well depends on the purpose. For general tasks it's really vastly superior to most other languages.

I personally don't like some things about the syntax but that's just my personal opinion :)

Re: Ruby 1.9.3 released

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Post by jstepien » Sun, Oct 30, 2011, 3:55 PM UTC

Sapient wrote: post #6

zmanji wrote: post #2

Does this include the "fast require" functionality that many people were patching into their Ruby 1.9.2 installs?

Maybe there was something wrong with my 1.9.2, but when working with rails projects (rake, rails console etc), this feels a few orders of magnitude faster.

Here's the whole story behind this speed-up: http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-1-9-3-faster-loading-times-re...

Re: Ruby 1.9.3 released

#15

Post by sirn » Sun, Oct 30, 2011, 4:05 PM UTC

jstepien wrote: post #12

cmer wrote: post #11

I've never been so excited for an unstable release. 1.9.2's require was painfully slow without the patch. edit: by "unstable", I mean a dot.uneven number.

A 'point release' might be the phrase you are looking for.

Actually, Ruby used to follows the "unstable odd, stable even" versioning scheme but they seems to quit doing that since 1.9.1 (since both 1.9.1 and 1.9.2 are declared stable[1])

[1]: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/...

EDIT: provide a source about Ruby 1.9.1

Re: Ruby 1.9.3 released

#16

Post by sandal » Sun, Oct 30, 2011, 4:26 PM UTC

cmer wrote: post #11

I've never been so excited for an unstable release. 1.9.2's require was painfully slow without the patch. edit: by "unstable", I mean a dot.uneven number.

1.9.3 is not an unstable release. Ruby uses the third version number to represent a point release, i.e. you can expect 1.9.3 to be more stable than 1.9.2 over time.

I think that the versioning policy did work the way you describe it at one point, but it's no longer the case.

Re: Ruby 1.9.3 released

#17

Post by cmer » Sun, Oct 30, 2011, 4:27 PM UTC

sirn wrote: post #15

jstepien wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A 'point release' might be the phrase you are looking for.

Actually, Ruby used to follows the "unstable odd, stable even" versioning scheme but they seems to quit doing that since 1.9.1 (since both 1.9.1 and 1.9.2 are declared stable[1]) [1]: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/... EDIT: provide a source about Ruby 1.9.1

Good to know! I didn't realize 1.9.1 was considered stable.

Re: Ruby 1.9.3 released

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Post by zdw » Sun, Oct 30, 2011, 4:37 PM UTC

Apparently the licensing has changed as well - it's now BSD dual-licensed, rather than GPLv2:

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_9_3_0/NEWS

Re: Ruby 1.9.3 released

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Post by SingAlong » Sun, Oct 30, 2011, 4:52 PM UTC

in case any of you are using rvm, "rvm get head" should update the rvm from the git repository and then you can install ruby the usual way ("rvm install 1.9.3")

Re: Ruby 1.9.3 released

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Post by tibastral2 » Sun, Oct 30, 2011, 4:57 PM UTC

to install with rvm : first update rvm,

bash https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/install/rvm)

then

rvm install 1.9.3

and

rvm use 1.9.3 --default

And you are on fire