CentOS 5.4 and Rubyworks -- its getting old

Question

The Rubyworks repository is a great solution to getting a newer version of the ruby stack installed on CentOS, however, its beginning to show its age with ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111)...

Are there other repos or up-to-date packages already built for CentOS out there or must I resort to compiling from source?

Answer 1

I asked myself the same question some weeks ago, but my solution is to compile ruby 1.9 from source. It's really easy and doesn't need tons of deps.

You need only those two commands :

• yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
• yum install readline-devel

Then compile rubygems, there is really cool tutorials on Internet.