Using the Vault Rubies

The Vault Rubies include:

• ruby-1.0 (12/25/1997)
• ruby-1.2 (12/25/1998)
• ruby-1.3 (12/24/1998)
• ruby-1.4.0 (8/13/1999)
• ruby-1.5.0 (12/7/1999)
• ruby-1.6.0 (9/19/2000)
• ruby-1.6.8 (12/24/2002)
• ruby-1.7.1 (6/1/2001)
• ruby-1.8.2 (12/25/2004)

To use one of them from your ruby-versions.net account, just use the above names from the command line:

  $ ruby-1.4.0 -e "puts 'hi'"
  hi
  $ ruby-1.8.2 my_file.rb

etc. (By the way, the reason some versions seem to have release dates that are out of order is that the versions with odd second numbers, through 1.7, were development versions.)

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