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For anyone interested, DEB and RPM packages are available at https://packager.io/gh/pkgr/rubies for various distributions. For instance for ubuntu 14.04: https://packager.io/gh/pkgr/rubies/install?bid=28#ubuntu-14-...

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Thanks for sharing this! I have been using the brightbox packages, but they are no longer updating 1.9 or 2.0 [1].

https://github.com/brightbox/deb-ruby2.0/pull/3#issuecomment...

Wouldn't one rather want to use rvm?

RVM/rbenv/chruby are generally discouraged on production servers.

Not for me! Being able to easily swap rubies in production gives a lot of flexibility. I've found that Chruby in production has been very reliable and easy to manage.

Yep, there are also significant performance benefits in compiling ruby for your machine if you're running on bare metal.

I don't know why you are being downvoted, you are absolutely correct. If you need update something as important as a programming language version, you should be rebuilding the server entirely a la Immutable Infrastructure. If you're using Docker, it's as simple as building a new docker image with the latest Ruby version.

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