threehv » isitruby19 http://www.3hv.co.uk/blog precision engineering for your website Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:18:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ruby 1.9 and gem compatibility http://www.3hv.co.uk/blog/2009/02/05/ruby-19-and-gem-compatibility/ http://www.3hv.co.uk/blog/2009/02/05/ruby-19-and-gem-compatibility/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:45:20 +0000 Rahoul Baruah http://www.3hv.co.uk/blog/?p=379 You may have heard that Ruby 1.9.1 is now out and “production-ready”.  This gives us a number of benefits, not least real threading and a general performance boost.  However, there is “production-ready” and there is “production-ready”; in particular, Ruby alone isn’t much use without the many gems that we all depend upon also being usable.  

So, we at Brightbox have just launched http://isitruby1.9.com; a community site that lets you mark gems as working or not.  It’s quick and easy and will really help people out so please test your favourite gem, then stop by and record the results.

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