Ruby 1.9.1 preview released

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Post by sfamiliar » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 3:49 PM UTC

Ruby 1.9.1 preview released
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Re: Ruby 1.9.1 preview released

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Post by sfamiliar » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 7:48 PM UTC

ruby 1.9.1 is mainly stability fixes to ruby 1.9, which had a few .. quirks.

for a less-than-complete guide to ruby 1.9 features, consider reading eigenclass's summary from way back: http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?Changes+in+Ruby+1.9

Re: Ruby 1.9.1 preview released

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Post by jamesbritt » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 8:31 PM UTC

sfamiliar wrote: post #2

ruby 1.9.1 is mainly stability fixes to ruby 1.9, which had a few .. quirks. for a less-than-complete guide to ruby 1.9 features, consider reading eigenclass's summary from way back: http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?Changes+in+Ruby+1.9

"... consider reading eigenclass's summary ..."

"Last major update on 2007-10-12"

Casual lurking on ruby-core suggests that all sorts of things have changed since then.

Re: Ruby 1.9.1 preview released

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Post by compay » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 9:23 PM UTC

With the release of the half-baked 1.8.7 a few months back, and now 1.9.1 being called the "first stable version of the 1.9 series" I'm a little bit confused as to what "stable" means for Ruby now.

Is 1.9 still going to be considered a development series, not widely recommended for most apps until 2.0 is released? Or is that starting to gradually change?

Re: Ruby 1.9.1 preview released

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Post by Locke » Wed, Oct 29, 2008, 12:16 AM UTC

compay wrote: post #4

With the release of the half-baked 1.8.7 a few months back, and now 1.9.1 being called the "first stable version of the 1.9 series" I'm a little bit confused as to what "stable" means for Ruby now. Is 1.9 still going to be considered a development series, not widely recommended for most apps until 2.0 is released? Or is that starting to gradually change?

The plan has been for 1.9 to be a stable series for a long (at least over a year) time now. I'm not sure there are any concrete plans for 2.0 at this time. If you use Ruby, now would be a good time to start getting comfortable with 1.9, though there doesn't seem to be much rush.

I updated one of my projects to work with 1.8.6 and 1.9 a couple months ago and it was mostly painless. I'm looking forward to the nice performance improvement and some of the api changes when it becomes production ready.

Re: Ruby 1.9.1 preview released

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Post by Locke » Wed, Oct 29, 2008, 12:19 AM UTC

jamesbritt wrote: post #3

sfamiliar wrote: post #2

ruby 1.9.1 is mainly stability fixes to ruby 1.9, which had a few .. quirks. for a less-than-complete guide to ruby 1.9 features, consider reading eigenclass's summary from way back: http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?Changes+in+Ruby+1.9

"... consider reading eigenclass's summary ..." "Last major update on 2007-10-12" Casual lurking on ruby-core suggests that all sorts of things have changed since then.

It's still a fairly decent reference if you need to update your software for 1.9. Several incompatibilities I ran into were listed there. For others problems, I did have to search the mailing lists, though.