Ruby

New Brightboxes come pre-installed with Ruby 1.8.6 as is the standard in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy).

Older Dapper-based Brightboxes come with Ruby 1.8.4 from the official Ubuntu Dapper distribution. There are a few known bugs with the 1.8.4 version, one in particular concerning parsing large yaml files might cause problems with your app if it does this, though this is not common. If this bug is causing you problems, you could try our 1.8.6 packages.

We have backported Ruby 1.8.6 from Ubuntu Gutsy to Dapper. You can find installation instructions for these packages here. These packages have successfully been used in production but are not supported - instead we recommend moving to Ubuntu Hardy.

We have built Ruby 1.8.7 for Ubuntu Hardy. You can find installation instructions for these packages here. These packages have successfully been used in production but are not supported.