ruby1.9.1 - Arch Linux

Now that we all knew ruby 1.9 is realeased and besides it becomes more flexible for production environment. Lets do some experiments on arch

Ruby repositories can be found here:
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/branches/ruby_1_9_1/

Checkout
$mkdir /home/softwares/
$svn co http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/branches/ruby_1_9_1/
$ cd ruby1_9_1
$> ./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/ruby--program-suffix=19
Note: Please be patience .., it takes long but it installs(especially in parse stage)
$> make;make install;

Create symbolic links
$ ln -s /usr/lib/ruby/ruby1.9/bin/ruby /usr/bin/ruby1.9
$ ln -s /usr/lib/ruby/ruby1.9/bin/rake /usr/bin/rake
$ ln -s /usr/lib/ruby/ri1.9/bin/ruby /usr/bin/ri1.9

and others

start the ruby baby

$ruby1.9
$ ri1.9
> puts "baby i'am coming, still riding :ruby => 1.8 "

and that begins the story to configure rails .., rails doesn't yet supports ruby1.9 and not even have more gems.
Drastically, they changed a lot in ruby1.9
eg.
x = {:1.8 => 'baby i am hash'}
x = {:1.9 => 'baby i am also a hash', :1.9 'baby i have a new girlfriend now'}