Posted by Urabe Shyouhei on 6 Oct 2011 Hello, and thank you for your getting into our community. I know most of you more or less use version 1.8.7 of Ruby today. It was released in 2008 and was a state-of-art Ruby release back then. – I am proud to say it is no longer. Ruby's core developers have been actively working on their new version, 1.9, and they are about to release new 1.9.3. I have been