Upgrading to 1.8.6-p230 on Windows

[jfry]

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

 

[Jano Svitok]

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?

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.