Should be obvious, but how do I even know what versions of ruby are available for rvm to use with rv

Rails
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I’m getting back to learning rails and at one point I used rvm to
install
some rubies. Now I’m playing dumb and want to install the latest ruby
version - latest beta. How in the world do I found out the name of it?
I’d
think it would be named somewhere here
Download Ruby and then I could just do rvm
install
ruby-XYZ. I don’t get where I find out what versions are available
(other
than the latest stable?) The rails site mentions some
http://rubyonrails.org/download but are those always the full version
names
you install? When I do rvm list I get:

rvm rubies

ruby-1.8.7-p299 [ x86_64 ]
=> ruby-1.9.2-preview3 [ x86_64 ]
ruby-head [ x86_64 ]

So at some point I must have installed ruby -1.9.2-preview3 but HOW did
I
know it was preview3? (I’m sure I just saw it in a post or tutorial
somewhere, but this should be listed somewhere official shouldn’t it?)

Thanks,

–
Rick R

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Hay Rick,
why using rvm? I think it is too much complicated. Try this: c:/ruby>gem
install rails --include-dependencies

And this will install the latest stable version of rails and
dependencies.
If you need any older version you can do it later also.

All the best
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Rick R [email protected] wrote:

rvm rubies

.
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

–
Thanks,
Irfan A. Rizvi
http://www.welltreat.us
+880 1676 246 991
+880 1723 712 288

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On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Irfan A. [email protected]
wrote:

Hay Rick,
why using rvm? I think it is too much complicated.

Because I have some old rails2 apps (not mine) but I want to work with
them
and rvm allows me to switch what I’m using easily.

I have no problems with rvm, I just can’t figure out how I know what
versions are available to install:)

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I am also using rails 2.3.2 and I use gem to install rails the older
version. First install ruby from the repository and then install rails
using
gem, install mysql or any database adapter. this is the flow I actually
followed. If you want then please let me know which version of rails you
want to install then I will be give you the full console command for
installing the desire version.

Best Wishes “Shuvecha”

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Rick R [email protected] wrote:

versions are available to install:)
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

–
Thanks,
Irfan A. Rizvi
http://www.welltreat.us
+880 1676 246 991
+880 1723 712 288

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On 22 November 2010 03:59, Irfan A. [email protected] wrote:

I am also using rails 2.3.2 and I use gem to install rails the older
version. First install ruby from the repository and then install rails using
gem, install mysql or any database adapter. this is the flow I actually
followed. If you want then please let me know which version of rails you
want to install then I will be give you the full console command for
installing the desire version.

That is ok for versions of rails below 3, but if you want to have
rails 3 and also earlier versions I believe that rvm is the simplest
solution.

Colin

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Yes, definitely! Using RVM also prevent many problems in the future
when you will update.

Answer for the main question:
“How in the world do I found out the name of it?”
Check it on Github, releases are tagged.

You made a very good decision with RVM,
good luck,
Zoltn

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On Nov 22, 2010, at 3:28 AM, Colin L. wrote:

That is ok for versions of rails below 3, but if you want to have
rails 3 and also earlier versions I believe that rvm is the simplest
solution.

Colin

For the OP, try:

rvm list known

to see all your choices (and even then I think that you can give a
suffix of -rXXX to get revision XXX from the repository).

-Rob

Rob B.
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