How to update ruby on linux (ubuntu)?

Question

I\'m newbie on both ruby and linux, so I\'m sure this is trivial but I don\'t know yet. I currently have ruby 1.8.7 installed and I want to update it to ruby 1.9. How can I do t

Answer 1

the above is not bad, however its kinda different for 11.10

sudo apt-get install ruby1.9 rubygems1.9

that will install ruby 1.9

when linking, you just use ls /usr/bin | grep ruby it should output ruby1.9.1

so then you sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 /usr/bin/ruby and your off to the races.