Ruby Enterprise Edition vs Ruby 1.9

Question

I\'m planning to build a website that will be a simple CMS where users submit and view postings with videos, photos and text.

One decision I want to make is choosing

Answer 1

As stated by Phusion they will not develop a 1.9 version of Ruby Enterprise Edition and declared the End-Of-Life of REE with the End-Of-Life of MRI Ruby 1.8. The reasons for not developing a 1.9 edition are

• A copy-on-write patch has recently been checked into Ruby 2.0.
• Many of the patches in Ruby Enterprise Edition are simply not necessary in 1.9.
• We wish to focus our efforts on Phusion Passenger and other products. Instead of doing many > things poorly, we want to do a few things, but do them very very well.

The full post can be read here.

Therefor I recommend to use the currently available and stable version of Ruby 2.0.0 or the previous stable version Ruby 1.9.3.