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Ruby in a Nutshell
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Ruby in a Nutshell

by Yukihiro Matsumoto
November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
218 pages
6h 22m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 6. Ruby Updates

Compared to most other languages, Ruby is rather young. As a result, it’s still evolving fairly rapidly.

If you find a bug in Ruby, the first thing to do is to check the bug database and see if the problem has already been reported. The bug database can be found at http://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/ruby-bugs. You can either send the bug report directly from that page or send an email to . When you submit your bug, try to include all relevant information such as source code, operating system, the output from ruby -v, and what version/build of Ruby you are running. If you have compiled your own build of Ruby, you should also include the rbconfig.rb.

The current stable version of Ruby can always be found at http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/download.html. There are also several mirror sites available.

The current developmental release can be obtained from the CVS (Concurrent Version System) repository. See http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/cvsrepo.html for instructions. You can get CVS tools from http://www.cvshome.com.

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