Ruby 1.8.3?

[Robert William Vesterman]

The current latest available port of Ruby seems to be 1.8.2.  Believe it 
or not, I actually need some functionality that is new as of 1.8.3.

I've looked on the web to try to find information on this, and found 
that, seemingly, 1.8.3 was ported, but there was some confusion 
regarding the version number that required it to be rolled back.  I 
don't understand the ports system in enough detail to have followed the 
conversation well; I think it involved something seemingly 
counterintuitive like "1.8.3 is less than 1.8.2_5,1".

I'm wondering if there's any news on when 1.8.3 will be available? Or if 
there's any simple way for me to get 1.8.3 up and running other than via 
the ports?

Thanks,

Bob Vesterman.