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hattenn
hattenn

Reputation: 4399

What is ruby-build-github?

What exactly is ruby-build-github, and why should I use it instead of the normal ruby builds?

I came across it while looking into installing Jekyll and using Github Pages.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 38

Answers (1)

Frederick Cheung
Frederick Cheung

Reputation: 84114

It makes it easy to install github's fork of ruby (either with rbenv or on its own).

Github's ruby doesn't vary dramatically from "normal" MRI - it's largely backports of things that will be released as part of normal ruby later on.

Github seem to roll out new versions of ruby quite aggressively (according to this [gist]https://gist.github.com/tmm1/8393897) they were running 2.1.0 in production only a fortnight or so after it was released and had run into some of the sharp edges you might expect to encounter.

In general you would have to take a view as to whether you were interested in any of the patches they had applied to mainline ruby, which will of course vary over time

Upvotes: 1

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