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Hear this: Ruby 1.8.5-preview1 is out. This is a security release, fixing a number of SEGV and parse errors. Tanaka Akira has also added nonblocking socket methods. See test/socket/test_nonblock.rb for more presently. Good!

Please, don’t really install this. But do install it:

 wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.5-preview1.tar.gz
 tar xzvf ruby-1.8.5-preview1.tar.gz
 cd ruby-1.8.5
 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
 make
 make install
 export PATH="$HOME/local/bin:$PATH" 
 ruby your_test_script.rb
 cd /your/rails/app
 ruby script/server

Matz has scheduled preview2 for June 14th. The stable 1.8.5 release should be seen August 14.