Forum: Ruby How to upgrade ruby to the latest version in ubuntu ?

@ubuntu:~$ ruby -v
ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux]
@ubuntu:~$

I am using Ubuntu 12.10. Can it be upgraded to the latest version of
ruby?

when I installed it I didn't use the rvm, I used the bellow command:

sudo apt install ruby

you can use brightbox's ppa
refer to this link: http://wiki.brightbox.co.uk/docs:ruby-ng
or: 
http://blog.brightbox.co.uk/posts/next-generation-...
or: http://docs.brightbox.com/ruby/ubuntu/

no ruby 2.0 yet though..

Kiswono Prayogo wrote in post #1098865:
> you can use brightbox's ppa
> refer to this link: http://wiki.brightbox.co.uk/docs:ruby-ng
> or:
> http://blog.brightbox.co.uk/posts/next-generation-...
> or: http://docs.brightbox.com/ruby/ubuntu/
>
> no ruby 2.0 yet though..

Thanks for your suggestions.

I wanted to know why the version 'Ruby 1.9.3-p392' has not been updated 
while I used the below?

sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.3

the above installed the version : "ruby 1.9.3p194"

umm.. i'm using that PPA, and my ruby version is:

$ ruby --version
ruby 1.9.3p327 (2012-11-10) [i686-linux] Brightbox

$ dpkg --list | grep ruby1.9
ii  libruby1.9.1
1:1.9.3.327-1bbox2~quantal1
     i386         Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.9.1
ii  ruby1.9.1
1:1.9.3.327-1bbox2~quantal1
     i386         Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby
ii  ruby1.9.1-dev
1:1.9.3.327-1bbox2~quantal1
     i386         Header files for compiling extension modules for the
Ruby 1.9.1

maybe you should install brightbox's ruby1.9.1

sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1

$ apt-cache show ruby1.9.1 | grep Version
Version: 1:1.9.3.327-1bbox2~quantal1
Version: 1.9.3.194-1ubuntu1.3
Version: 1.9.3.194-1ubuntu1

On 02/25/2013 09:30 AM, Love U Ruby wrote:
> I wanted to know why the version 'Ruby 1.9.3-p392' has not been updated
> while I used the below?
>
> sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.3
>
> the above installed the version : "ruby 1.9.3p194"
>
I guess, p194 was the current version when 12.10 was released. You'll 
only get security updates for your
packages (if the maintainer takes care about this). If you want to get 
the latest version automatically, you
should not use release-based linux distros (like debian,ubuntu, rh,...). 
It's not the philosophy behind
releases, that you'll get bleeding edge versions for everything. I'm 
using archlinux for  several years now,
which has a rolling (i.e. no) release cycle - it's not perfectly stable, 
but I always get the latest version
for most of the packages, e.g. ruby: 
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ruby.

hth
ralf

Kiswono Prayogo wrote in post #1098915:
> umm.. i'm using that PPA, and my ruby version is:
>
> $ ruby --version
> ruby 1.9.3p327 (2012-11-10) [i686-linux] Brightbox
>
> $ dpkg --list | grep ruby1.9
> ii  libruby1.9.1
> 1:1.9.3.327-1bbox2~quantal1
>      i386         Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.9.1
> ii  ruby1.9.1
> 1:1.9.3.327-1bbox2~quantal1
>      i386         Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby
> ii  ruby1.9.1-dev
> 1:1.9.3.327-1bbox2~quantal1

Should I need uninstall my existing one? If so Could you guide from 
uninstallation to installation of "1.9.3p327" ?

On 02/25/2013 03:49 PM, Love U Ruby wrote:
>> ii  ruby1.9.1
>> 1:1.9.3.327-1bbox2~quantal1
>>       i386         Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby
>> ii  ruby1.9.1-dev
>> 1:1.9.3.327-1bbox2~quantal1
>
> Should I need uninstall my existing one? If so Could you guide from
> uninstallation to installation of "1.9.3p327" ?
>

to install, just follow the link on the site i gave you earlier..

to uninstall, just type sudo apt-get purge ruby1.9.3