Major updates of Ruby Enterprise Edition

A couple of days ago I posted an entry about REE, Rails and Passenger setup.

Today we’ve received an email from Phusion about an updated version of REE:
Ruby Enterprise Edition 20081205 has been released.

This new update seems to address the most common problems what people have been encountering.

The main updates include:

  • Better 64-bit support
  • Better Mac OS X support
  • RubyGems updated to version 1.3.1. (So you don’t need to update RubyGems like in my previous post)
  • REE’s RubyGems no longer makes use of the existing gems (which fixes a lot of confusion and problems with native extensions)
  • Integration with the RailsBench garbage collector patches
  • A new command to track REE updates easily ($ ree-version)

Please visit the official site for more details and the announcement.

To upgrade from a previous version, simply install into the same prefix that you installed to last time. You can follow this guide in my previous post.

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