a weblog by Railsways.com

The folks at Phusion had put out a new version of Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7, 1.8.7 is more compatible to ruby 1.9 than 1.8.6, also the rubygems had upgraded to version 1.3.5.  This version has been beta tested by the Twitter guys, 37signals guys, and those people at Novell. Evan Weaver reported significant improvements in Twitter’s throughput after having switched to this REE release.

This is the first REE target to compatible with ruby 1.8.7, the exact version is ruby 1.8.7-p174, all previous REE versions are target to compatible with ruby 1.8.6. As the development of Rails 3.0 is going well, we will need a new ruby version for the upcoming release. Rails 3.0 required at least ruby version 1.8.7, so this is a move to ruby 1.8.7. Mac OSX snow leopard comes with ruby 1.8.7 out of the box. Most version of Linux also shipped with ruby 1.8.7, but not quite true for RHEL.

RHEL5 comes with ruby 1.8.5, that’s ok for a 2 year old distribution, but for the upcoming RHEL6, which probably based on fedora 10/11, which shipped with ruby 1.8.6. This version of REE is time saver for those people on RHEL. Come on Redhat guys, give us a more updated version of Ruby please!

If you planned to install this version of REE on snow leopard, make sure you run the installer with --no-tcmalloc switch.

P.S. we will probably got an update version of Agile Web Development with Rails around Christmas, and all those examples in version 4 of the pickaxe book will be working on Ruby 1.9.2. If I have a new Rails project to start, I’ll probably pick version 1.9.