If so, how?
When you go to http://rubyonrails.org/download, it says:
We recommend Ruby 1.8.7 for use with Rails. Ruby 1.8.6, 1.8.5, 1.8.4 an
Rails does work in 1.9 as of 2.3. I suppose they still recommend Ruby 1.8.7 because it has the most compatibility with other Ruby libraries — a lot of them are still catching up.