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Posted Jul 3, 2008 23:09 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
Parent article: Ruby security flaws expose release process problems

Luckily Ruby is a language with more than one mature and stable 
independent implementation (as well as several up-and-coming 
implementations).  The JRuby implementation was unaffected by this, and 
may gain more use as a result.

My team discovered an additional bug (besides the known segfaults that 
we'd patched away) in the recommended Ruby-1.8.6 version yesterday, and 
had to back off to an earlier version with added patches to fix the 
security problems.

My next Ruby server will run JRuby.


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