Sane Ruby on Hardy redux

Last year I blogged about where to get up-to-date Ruby packages for Ubuntu.

The PPA I suggested hasn’t been updated in a while, and there are a few gems that require the latest version of RubyGems to work correctly (Rails, i’m looking at you).

I suggest you remove the PPA and add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://apt.brightbox.net/ hardy main

Sub hardy with intrepid/dapper depending on what release you need.

Then do an apt-get update && apt-get remove rubygems && apt-get install rubygems, and you’ll be upgraded to the latest version of RubyGems.