The ruby down load page has…
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
* Ruby 1.9.1-p129 (md5: c71f413514ee6341c627be2957023a5c) Stable
Version (recommended)
Which suggests that the 1.9.1 branch is the stable branch
* Stable Snapshot This is tar’ed and gzip’ed file of the latest
stable SVN. It should be better than the last stable release.
However this file corresponds to the
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/branches/ruby_1_8/
code. And shows up as version 1.8.8
ie. Very far from the 1.9.1 “stable version recommended”.
* Nightly Snapshot This is tar’ed and gzip’ed file of the latest
SVN. It may contain unfixed problems.
What does this correspond to?
Is there a “Stable Snapshot” of the 1.9.1 branch?
The ruby issue tracker lists…
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/
Popular Projects
* Ruby 1.9 - Edge version of Ruby
o Ruby 1.9.1 - The latest stable release of Ruby 1.9 series.
* Ruby 1.8 - Stable development version of Ruby
o Ruby 1.8.6 - An ancient stable release of Ruby that Rails
users love
o Ruby 1.8.7 - A stable release of Ruby for bridging a gap
between the 1.8 and 1.9.
Which doesn’t even mention 1.8.8
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