Announcing isitruby19.com: tracking gem compatibility for ruby 1.9 5 Feb 09
By now you will all have heard of the release of Ruby 1.9.1 – the first, stable, production-ready release of the next-generation Ruby interpreter. This has a number of enhancements; RubyGems is bundled with the interpreter, native threads are used instead of green threads and we have a general performance boost all round (amongst many others).
However, there is a significant barrier to Ruby 1.9 adoption; the compatibility of the gems that we have all come to depend on.
Which is why we’ve launched isitruby19.com - a site that tracks gems and lists whether they are 1.9 compatible. Each time you come across a gem that works for you, drop by and leave a comment, so we all get a feel for which gems need some work and which are ready today.
1 year ago 3hv » Blog Archive » The five day product launch said:
[...] And so an evening of hacking by David gets a basic framework in place – he pulls the gems from Rubyforge and adds a comments model. I take over on Monday, putting a basic HTML interface together, with gravatars and captchas, which Jeremy then makes look nice. A blind alley over user registration, a few problems with Ferret, but by Tuesday we were pretty much done. Deploy to the live site on Wednesday and then we just needed to test a few gems to seed the display. Come Thursday and we all tweet about the new site … and isitruby1.9.com is launched. [...]