Ruby, a message to you

According to Matz, Ruby 1.9.0 will be released today (relatively). The expected time is 3pm JST on 12/25, which is 1am EST on 12/25. I’ll be staying up until 11pm MST today (12/24) (where I am), hoping it gets released on time. All incompatibilities with 1.8.6 will be finalized, but it’s not as stable as hoped. Nonetheless, I’m jazzed. I’ve been playing with the 1.9.0 trunk, enjoying the changes and YARV’s speed.

Here’s the bash script I’ve been using to update my 1.9 install (taken mostly from one I saw somewhere, but can’t find now). I’ll probably be using it to keep tracking trunk.

#!/bin/bash
set -e

RUBY19_DIR=~/dev/ruby19

cd ${RUBY19_DIR}

svn up

VERSION=`grep 'RUBY_VERSION '   version.h | awk '{print $3}' | sed -e's/"//g'`
SUFFIX=`grep RUBY_RELEASE_CODE version.h | awk '{print $3}'`

echo "Building ${VERSION}-${SUFFIX}"
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --program-suffix=19 --with-readline-dir=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

exit 0