Should be obvious, but how do I even know what versions of ruby are available for rvm to use with rvm install?

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I’m getting back to learning rails and at one point I used rvm to install some rubies. Now I’m playing dumb and want to install the latest ruby version - latest beta. How in the world do I found out the name of it? I’d think it would be named somewhere here http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ and then I could just do rvm install ruby-XYZ. I don’t get where I find out what versions are available (other than the latest stable?) The rails site mentions some http://rubyonrails.org/download but are those always the full version names you install? When I do rvm list I get:

rvm rubies

ruby-1.8.7-p299 [ x86_64 ] => ruby-1.9.2-preview3 [ x86_64 ] ruby-head [ x86_64 ]

So at some point I must have installed ruby -1.9.2-preview3 but HOW did I know it was preview3? (I’m sure I just saw it in a post or tutorial somewhere, but this should be listed somewhere official shouldn’t it?)

Thanks,

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Hay Rick,

why using rvm? I think it is too much complicated. Try this: c:/ruby>gem install rails --include-dependencies

And this will install the latest stable version of rails and dependencies. If you need any older version you can do it later also.

All the best

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Because I have some old rails2 apps (not mine) but I want to work with them and rvm allows me to switch what I’m using easily.

I have no problems with rvm, I just can’t figure out how I know what versions are available to install:)

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I am also using rails 2.3.2 and I use gem to install rails the older version. First install ruby from the repository and then install rails using gem, install mysql or any database adapter. this is the flow I actually followed. If you want then please let me know which version of rails you want to install then I will be give you the full console command for installing the desire version.

Best Wishes “Shuvecha”

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That is ok for versions of rails below 3, but if you want to have rails 3 and also earlier versions I believe that rvm is the simplest solution.

Colin

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Yes, definitely! Using RVM also prevent many problems in the future when you will update.

Answer for the main question: "How in the world do I found out the name of it?" Check it on Github, releases are tagged.

You made a very good decision with RVM, good luck, Zoltán

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For the OP, try:

   rvm list known

to see all your choices (and even then I think that you can give a suffix of -rXXX to get revision XXX from the repository).

-Rob

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