Ruby Versions in Common Use (Or, Can we bury 1.8.6 yet?)

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I am curious if Ruby 1.8.6 is still widely used? Have most people made
the jump to 1.8.7 by now?

I ask b/c 1.8.6 lacks support for passing blocks thru blocks, e.g.

lambda { |&b| … }

I realized that sometime over the last year or so I started to using
the ability of 1.8.7+ to do this without giving it a second thought. I
do not relish the idea of going back and and making workarounds in my
code for 1.8.6.

Side note: it really is a shame I think that 1.8.7 wasn’t version 1.9,
the whole point of having versioned site_ruby locations (ie. site_ruby/
1.8/) seems completely defeated by this, since 1.8.7 differs so much.
And now I see Ruby 1.9.2 is using site_ruby/1.9.1 and even provides an
explanation that it (somehow) makes sense.

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On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Intransition [email protected]
wrote:

I am curious if Ruby 1.8.6 is still widely used? Have most people made
the jump to 1.8.7 by now?

In “Rocking the enterprise with Ruby” at RubyKaigi (30:56):

“one of the issues that we have been working on … we are still stuck
on 1.8.6 and we are still trying to migrate to 1.8.7 and it has been
real hard because of our huge codebase”