I’m updating to Ruby 1.8.6 on the Fluffy QA Site.
It’s running CentOS 5 final. (cat /etc/redhat-release)
I added the following yum repository:
[ruby]
name=ruby
baseurl=http://repo.premiumhelp.eu/ruby/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=0
Then I ran:
yum –enablerepo=ruby install ruby ruby-devel rubygems ruby-docs ruby-ri ruby-irb ruby-rdoc
I don’t know the quality of this repository, so don’t take it as my endorsement. I found it on the internet via google which turned up this suggestion on a mailing list.
Most likely the Ruby version supplied by doing an rpm update on the official Centos 5 repository would’ve been fine, Ruby 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
– note, I’m actually going back to to the official Ruby installation because there is a security vulnerability here:
http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2008/Jul/1020476.html
Rather than rip it out by the roots and installing the correct RPMs by force, I found a cool package: yum-allowdowngrade:
yum list available ruby*
Loading “allowdowngrade” plugin
Loading “installonlyn” plugin
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Available Packages
ruby.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3 updates
ruby-devel.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3 updates
ruby-docs.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3 updates
ruby-irb.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3 updates
ruby-libs.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3 updates
ruby-mode.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3 updates
ruby-rdoc.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3 updates
ruby-ri.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3 updates
ruby-tcltk.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3 updates
yum grouplist
yum groupremove “Ruby”
yum “groupinstall “Ruby”
yum remove ruby-libs ruby-docs
yum install ruby-libs ruby-docs
yum install ruby-irb ruby-rdoc ruby-ri
so now my ruby installation looks like:
Installed Packages
ruby.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3 installed
ruby-devel.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3 installed
ruby-docs.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3 installed
ruby-irb.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3 installed
ruby-libs.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3 installed
ruby-mode.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3 installed
ruby-rdoc.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3 installed
ruby-ri.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_2.3 installed
The reason I wanted to upgrade to 1.8.6 was to get the 1.9 warnings, and to keep consistent with windows. I’ll still use 1.86 on Linux VMs not facing the internet, but not on QA Sites.
rubygems 1.1.1 was installed by hand.
