@julian Michael point was not that Ruby 1.9 doesn't have great features, just that they are not production ready. I guess we'll hear more about Ruby 1.9 during RubyConf in few days.
- Matt On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Julian Leviston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some people aren't allowed to / don't want to run Java. > > Also, Ruby 1.9 is a better beast. Simple changes to the API make it > nicer to use. Things like, for instance, the Enumerator class, and > especially "multilingualization" as built-in. That and the fact that > it's really quite fast. I know that JRuby is also comparatively fast. > > These features along with the ones I've missed are really nice things, > IMHO. > > Just my 2 cents. > > Julian. > > On 03/11/2008, at 11:27 PM, Dirkjan Bussink wrote: > >> >>> Any indication of when that will be ? >> >> Not before RSpec works properly on Ruby 1.9. Running the test suite is >> a must have before even considering official support of Ruby 1.9, see >> http://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/5645/tickets/564-ruby-19-compat-constant-lookup-rules >> for more information. >> >> What is the reason for abandoning 1.8? I personally see JRuby as a >> more viable alternative than 1.9 at this moment. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Dirkjan Bussink >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
