[ANN] Ruby 1.9.1 is released

[Dave_Mail_Archive]

Final beta pushes early next week

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On Jan 30, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Jan Friedrich wrote:

Now we can wait for Pickaxe 3.

[Forum]

Wait 1 minute, I thought this *was* Perl 6, do not tell me I am in the
wrong community!!!!
R.

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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:20 PM, James Gray <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

P.S. Does this mean we beat Perl 6? (This is a joke folks. Relax!)

--
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the
dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any
longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but
the world as it will be ... ~ Isaac Asimov

[Musdev_Musdev]

Are there going to be a one click installer for this new version? I'm having
trouble installing 1.9

Thanks

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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:21 PM, hemant <gethemant@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Yugui (Yuki Sonoda) <yugui@yugui.jp> > wrote:
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> Hi, folks.
>
> I am proud to announce the release of Ruby 1.9.1. This is the first
> stable release of Ruby 1.9 series.
>
> Ruby 1.9 is a new series of Ruby. It is modern, faster, with clearer
> syntax, multilingualized and much improved version of Ruby. Ruby 1.8
> series has been used since 2003 and many great products were born on it.
> Today Ruby 1.9 series starts its history as 1.8 series did.
>
> Notice that Ruby 1.8 still remains. 1.8.8 will be released this year.

Awesome all the way!

PS: whats the status of RubySpec project w.r.t Ruby 1.9.1 ? Are specs
that fail are being corrected and stuff?

[Bill_Kelly]

I am proud to announce the release of Ruby 1.9.1. This is the first
stable release of Ruby 1.9 series.

Three cheers for the entire Ruby core team who has worked so hard to bring us this release! Please know that we appreciate your efforts.

+1 !!!

Very much appreciated indeed.

Thanks to all!

Bill

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From: "James Gray" <james@grayproductions.net>

On Jan 30, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Yugui (Yuki Sonoda) wrote:

[Emanuele_Ricci]

Ruby banzaaaaaaaaaai!

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[Wu_Junchen]

Wu Junchen wrote:

How can I make it works in cygwin?
(gcc version 4.3.2 20080827 (alpha-testing) 1 (GCC))
There are some errors when I make it:

After downloaded the package from the ftp instead of checking out from
svn,I can build it successfully,maybe the wrong thing I did is that
before exec ./configure,I had executed 'autoconf' and make someting goes
wrong.

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[Ollivier_Robert5 (Ollivier Robert)]

In article <b37300880901300943r635f468dj1ed94ad869c639c7@mail.gmail.com>,

A huge thanks to all of ruby-core for this, and for your hard work on
release management, Yugui.

Kudos to the team!

Is there a possibility that Ruby 1.8.8 will go back to being similar
to 1.8.6 and remove the 1.9 compatibility shims?
This would make maintaining old 1.8 code much easier.

I second that.

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Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
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Ollivier ROBERT -=- EEC/RIF/SEU -=-
Systems Engineering Unit

[James_Edward_Gray_II]

Sorry. I have updated the link now.

James Edward Gray II

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On Feb 9, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Ubaldo Villaseca wrote:

It seem as this is the first production
release (p0) and therefore it would be the latest Ruby stable
distribution; but the download page at www.ruby-lang.org still shows
1.8.7-p72 as the stable and recommended one.

[James_Edward_Gray_II]

We may still have time to get that out too.

James Edward Gray II

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On Jan 30, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Gregory Brown wrote:

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:20 PM, James Gray <james@grayproductions.net > > wrote:

P.S. Does this mean we beat Perl 6? (This is a joke folks. Relax!)

Nah, we'll need to wait for Ruby 2 for that

[Radoslaw_Bulat (Radosław Bułat)]

Congratulations and thanks for all your job to Matz, ko1 and the rest of us.
Tank you!

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[Michal_hramrach_Such (Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek)]

I suggest you wait for the Windows One Click installer for 1.9/2.0.

Unless something has changed the Windows builds you can download at
garbagecollect are somewhat not completely finished. They are missing
parts, and not even documenting which ones. You could write a "hello
world" program using the build and perhaps explore some of the
features fof the new interpreter but you cannot even install gems.

I am not completely sure if anybody uses that stuff and what do they
use it for. It just shows Ruby *can* be built for WIndwows I guess.

Thanks

Michal

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On 30/01/2009, Zayd Abdullah <devrubygem@gmail.com> wrote:

Congradulations guys!! I am a noob so this might be a silly question to the
majority, but can someone give me the steps to install 1.9 in my vista
environment? Need some help. I already saved the zip folder. Should I be
looking for an executable, becauseI cannot find it

[Michal_hramrach_Such (Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek)]

The problem is not with Ruby itself but with the libraries it uses
(zlib for gems, readline for irb, openssl for encryption and https
networking, sqlite, ...)

Most of these use unique build systems and have binaries built for
windows with different compilers.

To link this all together with Ruby is a recipe for disaster.

For that reason Luis is working on a new One Click installer which
builds all the libraries and ruby from source using the MinGW
compiler.

Unfortunately not all of the libraries build well in the MinGW
environment out of the box (or on Windows at all) so the project
requires lots of tedious work. There are only development and testing
releases of this installer. As far as I know no final release that
includes at least all the basic parts is available.

Thanks

Michal

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On 30/01/2009, Zayd Abdullah <devrubygem@gmail.com> wrote:

Are there going to be a one click installer for this new version? I'm having
trouble installing 1.9

[Roger_Pack4 (Roger Pack)]

Zayd Abdullah wrote:

Are there going to be a one click installer for this new version?

Luis plans on releasing a mingw 1.8.6 and a mingw 1.9, so yeah [he was
waiting for the official release first].

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[Saravanan_Krishnan1 (Saravanan Krishnan)]

Ruby Rocks

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2009/1/31 Emanuele Ricci <maurice.enciel@gmail.com>

Ruby banzaaaaaaaaaai!
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[Daniel_Roux1 (Daniel Roux)]

Thanks to everybody involved, for all the effort you put into this, for
making my favorite language better.
Congratulations to all the community.

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[Marco_Mastrodonato]

I want to thank all ruby team for this great work.
If i can say it, i'd like to have an installer for windows as it was for
the old 1.8.6

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[Andy_Cooper]

I think that as long as the language changes faster than COBOL we are
doing good.

Andy Cooper.

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On Jan 30, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Gregory Brown wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:20 PM, James Gray > <james@grayproductions.net > > > wrote:
>
>> P.S. Does this mean we beat Perl 6? (This is a joke folks.
>> Relax!)
>
> Nah, we'll need to wait for Ruby 2 for that

We may still have time to get that out too.

James Edward Gray II

[Musdev_Musdev]

Hahahahaa Thanks Michal, you answered my question at the same time I was
typing it

Thanks

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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>wrote:

On 30/01/2009, Zayd Abdullah <devrubygem@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congradulations guys!! I am a noob so this might be a silly question to
the
> majority, but can someone give me the steps to install 1.9 in my vista
> environment? Need some help. I already saved the zip folder. Should I be
> looking for an executable, becauseI cannot find it
>

I suggest you wait for the Windows One Click installer for 1.9/2.0.

Unless something has changed the Windows builds you can download at
garbagecollect are somewhat not completely finished. They are missing
parts, and not even documenting which ones. You could write a "hello
world" program using the build and perhaps explore some of the
features fof the new interpreter but you cannot even install gems.

I am not completely sure if anybody uses that stuff and what do they
use it for. It just shows Ruby *can* be built for WIndwows I guess.

Thanks

Michal

[Musdev_Musdev]

Cool, thanks!!! I will be patiently waiting

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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>wrote:

On 30/01/2009, Zayd Abdullah <devrubygem@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are there going to be a one click installer for this new version? I'm
having
> trouble installing 1.9
>

The problem is not with Ruby itself but with the libraries it uses
(zlib for gems, readline for irb, openssl for encryption and https
networking, sqlite, ...)

Most of these use unique build systems and have binaries built for
windows with different compilers.

To link this all together with Ruby is a recipe for disaster.

For that reason Luis is working on a new One Click installer which
builds all the libraries and ruby from source using the MinGW
compiler.

Unfortunately not all of the libraries build well in the MinGW
environment out of the box (or on Windows at all) so the project
requires lots of tedious work. There are only development and testing
releases of this installer. As far as I know no final release that
includes at least all the basic parts is available.

Thanks

Michal

[Jayce_Meade]

Yeah, I'm having some problems installing too... I can do the compiling, I'll figure it out, but I can't figure out how I get the tools needed to do it, the win32 readme said I needed these:

    Note: building ruby requires following commands.
     * nmake
     * cl
     * lib
     * dumpbin

I have nmake, but how do I acquire the others? Google isn't helping me.

   - Jayce

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From: "Michal Suchanek" <hramrach@centrum.cz>
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Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby 1.9.1 is released

On 30/01/2009, Zayd Abdullah <devrubygem@gmail.com> wrote:

Are there going to be a one click installer for this new version? I'm having
trouble installing 1.9

The problem is not with Ruby itself but with the libraries it uses
(zlib for gems, readline for irb, openssl for encryption and https
networking, sqlite, ...)

Most of these use unique build systems and have binaries built for
windows with different compilers.

To link this all together with Ruby is a recipe for disaster.

For that reason Luis is working on a new One Click installer which
builds all the libraries and ruby from source using the MinGW
compiler.

Unfortunately not all of the libraries build well in the MinGW
environment out of the box (or on Windows at all) so the project
requires lots of tedious work. There are only development and testing
releases of this installer. As far as I know no final release that
includes at least all the basic parts is available.

Thanks

Michal