Clean installation of new Ruby versions

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When I run a progam with a “require ‘date’”, I get several warnings:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/date.rb:278: warning: Object#type is deprecated; use Object#class

I installed the latest Cygwin binary snapshot, and it didn’t change
the behaviour. I grabbed the latest cvs, and ‘lib/date.rb’ has no
instance of “type” in it.

Examining the contents of the tar.gz I downloaded, I found that
date.rb is installed in the following location:
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb

My ingenious little ‘rwhich’ program gives me the following output:

$ rwhich -a date
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/date.rb
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb

Conclusion: installing the latest 1.8.0 binary snapshot did not ensure
that I am actually running the latest library code. I don’t know how
date.rb got into site_ruby/1.8 in the first place. Does anyone have a
bright idea how to uninstall an existing Ruby installation in order to
ensure a clean install of a new one?

Thanks,
Gavin

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The following should do it:

rm -rf /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8 /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
rm /usr/local/bin/{ruby,irb,erb}
rm /usr/local/lib/libruby-static.a

Regards,

Brian.

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On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:12:32PM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

Conclusion: installing the latest 1.8.0 binary snapshot did not ensure
that I am actually running the latest library code. I don’t know how
date.rb got into site_ruby/1.8 in the first place. Does anyone have a
bright idea how to uninstall an existing Ruby installation in order to
ensure a clean install of a new one?