Upgrade ruby projects from 1.8.6 to 1.8.7

Question

What steps should I follow to upgrade a Ruby project from 1.8.6 to 1.8.7?

Answer 1

It should be mostly seamless, since it was mostly compatible changes to the api.

Still, check out the list of incompatibilities

If you start using the new methods offered by 1.8.7 (or newer!) but would like to remain compatible with 1.8.6, checkout my backports gem.

Answer 2

There are just method add in ruby 1.8.7 in compare to ruby 1.8.6. So if it's works with 1.8.6 it's works in ruby 1.8.7 too.

But if you are a great test suite, launch it and see if all works.