Ruby Enterprise 1.8.7-2009.10 Packages for Ubuntu Hardy

We’ve built 32bit and 64bit Ubuntu Hardy packages for Ruby Enterprise 1.8.7-2009.10. More details are on the blog. If you have any trouble or want to report success, please post in this forum. Thanks!

Thanks!

I’ve got a few sites that aren’t 1.8.7 compatible (old versions of Rails, not worth my while to upgrade them).

How do I get the old 1.8.6 REE installed (especially if I’ve cough accidentally put 1.8.7 REE on that box)?

Rahoul,

no problem, reverting back to the stable REE packages is just like the procedure to revert back to the standard Ubuntu packages, but with a slightly different apt preferences file.

Just change the apt source from rubyee-testing back to rubyee, and add the following lines to /etc/apt/preferences

Package: libopenssl-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev irb1.8 rdoc1.8 ri1.8
Pin: release C=rubyee
Pin-Priority: 600

Then do an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. The old packages will be listed as downgrades.

John.