Ruby1.8.1 on FreeBSD

[Carsten Eckelmann]

Hi,

I've just installed my first FreeBSD 5.1 server and I'm wondering about
Ruby 1.8.1 availability on this OS. When I installed ruby from the ports
tree I get a version 1.6.8 only.

Please give me some pointers of where to look for info, as I'm totally
new to FreeBSD....

Cheers,
Carsten.

 

[Ollivier Robert]

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Hi,

I've just installed my first FreeBSD 5.1 server and I'm wondering about
Ruby 1.8.1 availability on this OS. When I installed ruby from the ports
tree I get a version 1.6.8 only.

You can install lang/ruby18 which will give you 1.8pre_something IIRC then
as the other poster said, update your ports tree which will give you 1.8.1.