Upgrading to 1.8.6-p230 on Windows

Ruby
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Hi all,

I’m looking to upgrade to 1.8.6-p230 on Windows XP. I initially
installed with the One Click Installer, and am currently running: ruby
1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i386-mswin32]

Searching, I see this suggestion to use the One Click Installer again:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/270203

…with a warning that I’ll lose my gems unless I work around it by
renaming
c:\ruby to something else, installing ruby, then overwrite
C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems with the old version and call ‘gem update’ to
fetch the new versions.

Is that advice still true? Anything you’d recommend instead?

Thanks,
Jeff

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On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 00:42, jfry [email protected] wrote:

renaming
c:\ruby to something else, installing ruby, then overwrite
C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems with the old version and call ‘gem update’ to
fetch the new versions.

Is that advice still true? Anything you’d recommend instead?

  1. I have written response to a similar thread this morning.
  2. You might want to wait with the upgrade, as 230 is known to be
    broken. See recent threads here and on ruby-core.
    Alternatively, use the patched provided instead of the “upstream” 230.