Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto and the Ruby core team announced on the ruby-talk mailing list the release of Ruby 1.9. According to Cheah Chu Yeow, mongrel is almost fully 1.9 compatible as is Rails. Before enjoying the big speed boost and new features of 1.9, grab a copy and test it local. Enjoy!
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.0-0.tar.bz2 – 407cc7d0032e19eb12216c0ebc7f17b3
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.0-0.tar.gz – b20cce98b284f7f75939c09d5c8e846d
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.0-0.zip – 78b2a5f9a81c5f6775002c4fb24d2d75
UpdateMany others, including Dave Thomas, have reported that this is a development release, so definitely keep it local for now.
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