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making ruby 1.9 the default ruby on ubuntu

Answer 1

+1 A:

I'm not really sure, but maybe this can help

update-alternatives --config ruby

just_a_dude 2009-12-12 09:37:29

thanks, didn't work out of the box but searching for `update-alternatives ruby` brought up http://krnjevic.com/wp/?p=209 which has a howto

Martin DeMello 2009-12-12 09:54:00

cool :) happy coding

just_a_dude 2009-12-12 10:37:13

Answer 2

A:

try

sudo apt-get install ruby1.9 rubygems1.9

or try building from source. this worked for me on ubuntu 9.04 and after a restart 1.9 was the standard ruby

2009-12-13 11:37:07

i got it working via update-alternatives, as described here: http://krnjevic.com/wp/?p=209

Martin DeMello 2009-12-13 13:04:09

-1. This seems like a cargo-cult administration, huh? "do something, reboot, pray it works, I don't know how" - that makes the overall entropy raise.

Wojciech Kaczmarek 2009-12-15 00:31:03

I don't see what you're getting at - I installed and rebooted. You can install ruby1.9 either from the source, or via repository. This was the expected behaviour. I didn't sit down and mumble voodoo chants while feverishly typing in commands I thought looked pretty.

2009-12-15 11:58:38

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