…Matz's vision for the direction of the MRI ( Matz's Ruby Interpreter), were the most talked about topics at the event. Many sessions gave love to JRuby and Rubinus for addressing these enterprise problems. (And everyone gave love to Matz and his team.) While Rubinus is a fantastic project that should appeal to any Rubyist, it seems clear that JRuby will become the standard for Ruby in the enterprise.
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Optional Install: IConv Package
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Since I have Rails applications that I work on that still haven't been migrated to Ruby 1.9.2, I use Ruby Enterprise Edition as my baseline Ruby install.
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If you'd like to make Ruby Enterprise Edition your default Ruby Interpreter, just use the following command: rvm ree --default
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