ruby-build is the tool that provides the rbenv install command, but can also be used standalone for all your Ruby building needs.
How to update:
- Homebrew:
brew upgrade ruby-build - rbenv plugin:
cd "$(rbenv root)"/plugins/ruby-build && git pull
Noticeable changes
- Our CloudFront download mirror is now up to date! Downloads for all Ruby versions, even newer ones, are going to be speedy again. The mirror is sponsored by 37signals.
- Use all available CPU cores used for compiling. Intel Core i5/i7 owners should experience a speedup in building Rubies.
- Enable compiling Ruby 1.8 on OS X 10.8+ without extra flags. (Previously it involved installing XQuartz and passing additional flags. Tedious!)
- Use libyaml from Homebrew if available.
- Install Rake and Bundler in isolation when required for building Rubinius and mruby.
- Our wiki now outlines what should be a sane build environment for different platforms.
Also added this month
- Rubinius 2.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.1.1
- Install Rubinius in a way compatible with rbenv—no extra plugin needed!
- JRuby 1.7.5, 1.7.6
Other goodies
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Abort early for invalid TMPDIR
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Fix installing Ruby 2.1.0 from trunk
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Clearer error message when HTTP download fails
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Set default MAKE=gmake on FreeBSD
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Support relative path as install prefix
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Test suite is back on track and under the watchful eye of Travis CI:
$ git diff d924fce..v20131028 --shortstat -- test 12 files changed, 432 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)