Ruby 1.9 + Ruby 1.
8
Installing and using multiple Ruby installs on the same machine
Most of this stuff can be found on my blog:
http://gnuu.org
Plan of Action
• Install Ruby 1.9
• Setup Symlinks and Ruby Switcher Script
• Install Gems (mysql, hpricot, BlueCloth, etc.)
• Quick Overview of New Features
• Common Issues / Let’s Talk Encodings
• What Works? What Doesn’t Work?
Installing Ruby 1.9
• Download Ruby 1.9 from http://ruby-lang.org
• http://gnuu.org/2009/06/14/installing-ruby-1-8-1-9-side-by-side/
• ~/ruby-1.9.1$ ./configure --program-suffix=19
• ln -fs /usr/local/bin/ruby19 /usr/local/bin/ruby
ln -fs /usr/local/bin/irb19 /usr/local/bin/irb
ln -fs /usr/local/bin/gem19 /usr/local/bin/gem
• See blog (above) for tiny “Quick Switcher” shell script
Fixing Gem Installs
• gem overwrites executables with hardcoded shebang.
• Either install all gems with suffix (spec1.9) or use gem-sane-binary
• gem-sane-binary: RubyGems 1.3.1+ plugin I wrote to write shebang to
`ruby` symlink (if exists).
• You can point the ruby symlink at anything.
• No need to type suffixes (or modify programs that don’t use suffixes)
Installing Gems
• Most (important) gems have by now been ported, officially or
unofficially.
• http://isitruby19.com has a list and details to find unofficial working
Github forks
• Some official working gems: hpricot, BlueCloth, sqlite3-ruby
• Unofficially working gems: mysql, postgres
Installing MySQL
• Look for “mysql-ruby” on RubyForge: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=4550
• Download and run `ruby extconf.rb -- --with-mysql-dir=/path/to/mysql`
• make && sudo make install
• You can find Github forks and gem servers with this pre-packaged.
Ruby 1.9 Features
• New hash syntax: {a: 1, b: 2} => {:a => 1, :b => 2} (and they’re ordered)
• Unicode support (we’ll talk about that)
• New lambda syntax supports splats, default args:
meth = ->(a, b = true) do [a, b] end
meth.(1) #=> [1, true]
• Symbols compare with strings: :foo =~ /o/, :foo[0] == “f”
• Plenty of other great additions to stdlib (Object#tap, Fibers)
Common Issues (Mostly Encodings)
• http://gnuu.org/2009/02/02/ruby-19-common-problems-pt-1-encoding/
• You might have seen: Invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
• Most issues solved with encoding shebang (“# encoding: utf-8” at top
of file)
• >> “ç”.encoding
=> #<Encoding:UTF-8>
>> “ç”.encode(“us-ascii”)
Encoding::UndefinedConversionError: "\xC3\xA7" from UTF-8 to US-ASCII
>> “ç”.force_encoding(“us-ascii”)
=> “\xC3\xA7”
What Works? What Doesn’t Work?
• TextMate:
•I’ve had issues with Git.tmbundle but fixed most of them
•Posted about it on my blog
•Works well now (minus a few minor things)
•I can switch back to 1.8 (ruby-switch-18) when I’m having problems
What Issues Have You Had?
Discuss.
