Ruby updated to version 1.9.3

Posted August 23rd, 2014 in Tech Corner. Tags: .

We’ve updated the default version of the Ruby scripting language on our servers from 1.8.7 to 1.9.3.

The previous version 1.8.7 of Ruby is still available on our servers as /usr/bin/ruby1.8, and most scripts that use Ruby (including Rails) will “bind” themselves to a specific version like this to start with, so this change should not affect many Ruby users.

If you have any compatibility problems and your script uses the generic /usr/bin/ruby, you should change that to /usr/bin/ruby1.8 for now and work to fix your script for Ruby 1.9 compatibility.

(Similarly, Ruby 1.9.x can be explicitly specified as /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 if you need it, avoiding problems when it’s upgraded in the future. Using specific versions also allows us to notify you before that version is removed.)

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