Sorry, it doesn't seem like my original response made it through (at least not according to the ruby-sig archive
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ruby-sig/2010-June/thread.html). Resending.

  -Mo

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: ruby 1.8.7.x for rawhide
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:44:56 -0400
From: Mohammed Morsi <mmorsi@redhat.com>
To: Ruby SIG mailing list <ruby-sig@lists.fedoraproject.org>
CC: Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, ruby-owner@fedoraproject.org


Hey Mamoru,

  Appreciate the efforts. I am also working towards Ruby 1.8.7 on 
Fedora, just released a SRPM/SPEC a few days ago that I was working on

    http://mo.morsi.org/blog/node/318

Just fyi, we're also going to need this patch

   http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/repositories/diff/ruby-187?rev=27408

To get rails 3.0.0 working against Ruby 1.8.7p149

   http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2557

I'm currently working on bundling Rails 3 into rpms and creating a 
Fedora based virtual appliance w/ Ruby 1.8.7 on it, similar to the one I 
released w/ Ruby 1.9, to make testing software against multiple versions 
of Ruby on Fedora as simple as possible. After that I'm planning on 
setting up an automated test system to test the various Ruby packages we 
have in Fedora against each appliance.

Stay tuned for updtes.

  -Mo