# State of Ruby and ROR

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/state-of-ruby-and-ror/155960>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 18, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/state-of-ruby-and-ror/155960 "2008-12-18T15:30:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![ther](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@ther](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ther)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/state-of-ruby-and-ror/155960/1 "2008-12-18T15:30:56Z")

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New year is comming and I would like to clear some questions on the  
future of Ruby and ROR.

1. We see that Ruby 1.8.7 is default on ubuntu 8.10. In the past there  
were problems with ROR and ruby 1.8.7. Have this problems been  
resolved?

2. Short after New year Ruby 1.9 will be considered stable and the  
question is Is ROR ready for Ruby 1.9 and are there any speed in  
improvments?

by  
TheR

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**Author:** ![ther](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@ther](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ther)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/state-of-ruby-and-ror/155960/2 "2008-12-18T20:44:34Z")

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Damjan R. wrote:

> New year is comming and I would like to clear some questions on the  
> future of Ruby and ROR.
> 
> 1. We see that Ruby 1.8.7 is default on ubuntu 8.10. In the past there  
> were problems with ROR and ruby 1.8.7. Have this problems been  
> resolved?
> 
> 2. Short after New year Ruby 1.9 will be considered stable and the  
> question is Is ROR ready for Ruby 1.9 and are there any speed in  
> improvments?
> 
> by  
> TheR

As far as I understand it the latest versions of Rails does support Ruby  
1.9. I hear though that not all gems and plugins are ready for Ruby 1.9,  
but I imagine the major ones will be ready in time for Ruby 1.9 to be  
considered “production” ready.

I’ve not heard anything on Ruby 1.8.7. I continue to use the Ruby that  
comes with Leopard on my development boxes and tend to try to stick with  
that for deployment as well. I suppose I’ll consider Ruby 1.9 more  
seriously when Apple decides it ready enough to include it in Mac OS X.  
That is, of course, unless there is a compelling reason to move to it  
sooner than that.