nubie question - Ports - Ruby 1.8.4

[Bakki Kudva]

Wow! 4 replies already!!  I am really impressed by the Free BSD
community :). THis never happens on some of the other lists I am on.
Thank you Andy, Robert, Daniel and Michael for your advise.

The thing that threw me was that I had checked the ports web site for
the Ruby version BEFORE I installed FreeBSD which was just a couple of
days ago. So I was wondering why I got Ruby 1.8.2 in my ports tree
since I installed using the main site as my ftp source?!

I have read the using ports in the hand book but certainly I need to
read it more and get familiar with all the commands for using ports.
Thank you again.

-bakki

On 5/2/06, Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions at slightlystrange.org> wrote:

> You should start by reading
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
>
> I would suggest that probably the easiest method for updating your ports
> tree is the Portsnap approach.  Assuming you are using 6.*, it is part
> of your base system.
>
> Read portsnap(8) for details of how to use it.  Then, when your ports
> tree is up to date, you will find that Ruby 1.8.4 is available.
>
>