1.249. ruby

Updated ruby packages that fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to do system management tasks.

This update fixes the following bug:

Under some circumstances on the PowerPC 64 architecture, Ruby did not save the context correctly before switching threads. Consequently, when a thread was restored, it had stale context whose use would result in a segmentation fault. This affected nearly any thread-using program on PowerPC 64. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this issue, and the context is now saved correctly. (BZ#653824)

All PowerPC 64 ruby users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue.

Updated ruby packages that fix several bugs are now available.

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.

This update fixes the following bugs:

Previously, Ruby's self-test failed because of a false-positive. The erroneous result has been corrected and the test no longer fails. (BZ#635588)
Ruby's self-test failed because of a bug in GNU dbm (gdbm). Until this bug is corrected, the test is omitted from Ruby's self-test to avoid this failure. (BZ#635588)

All users of Ruby are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these bugs.