Sam Ruby: rbenv first impressions

rbenv first impressions from @samruby: Great points, and a fine example of how to give constructive feedback to OSS.

rbenv first impressions Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 13:10 Background: I maintain a scenario that I test against multiple versions of Rails and multiple versions of Ruby. I primarily develop on Ubuntu, but I bought a new Mac Mini because some of my readers were having installation problems on Snow Lion and my previous mac min can’t install Snow Lion . Armed with my new Mac Mini, I set off to to repeat my testing of various versions of Rails and Ruby. Whereas I have been using, and happy with, RVM on Ubuntu for dealing with Ruby versions; I decided to try rbenv /ruby-build . What I started with was a new machine, a full installation of XCode, the Command Line utilities, and Homebrew . Keeping my build recipies up to date involves rvm get stable for rvm, and brew update followed by brew upgrade ruby-build' if `brew outdated`.include? 'ruby-build' for rbenv. Changing to the latest vers...

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