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Ruby 1.9 is a new series of Ruby. It is modern, faster, with clearer syntax,
multilingualized, a much improved version of Ruby.
Ruby 1.8 series has been used since 2003 and many great products were born on
it.
Today, the Ruby 1.9 series starts its history as the 1.8 series did.
from slashdot.com:
The VM of Ruby 1.9, formerly known as YARV, was initiated by Koichi Sasada and
has been in the making for quite some time. Ruby's creator Yukihiro Matsumoto
has already presented many of the upcoming features in his keynote at RubyConf
2007. Most notably, Ruby 1.9 now supports native threads and an implementation
of fibers. A lot of work also went into encoding awareness of strings. The
1.9.1 version is said to be twice as fast as the stable 1.8.7. It will take
some time though until the majority of existing Ruby extensions get ported to
1.9.
From Wikipedia:
As of 30 January 2009, the latest stable version of the reference
implementation is 1.9.1.
Ruby 1.9.1 introduces a lot of changes compared to version 1.8.6, such as:
Block local variables (variables that are local to the block in which they are
declared)
An additional lambda syntax (fun = -(a,b) { puts a + b })
Per-string character encodings are supported
URL: http://www.ruby-lang.org
License: Ruby License; GNU General Public License
Notes: I mean, we should include this in jaunty... Many ruby developers ready
to switch to 1.9 branch right now, cause it became much more stable equal to
1.9.0 and faster up to 20 times than 1.8 branch.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: needs-packaging ruby
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[needs-packaging] Ruby 1.9.1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330268
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