In article <B241CBE9-586A-4FEE-B3D0-CCF6871EBCE2 / grayproductions.net>, James Edward Gray II wrote: > Just my experience, but 1.8.3 cause me nothing but pain. I had > trouble with Rake, Rails, RubyGems/RubyForge, YAML, I was bugged by YAML problems too so I upgraded to a recent stable snapshot and everything was fine. I can't say whether Rake, Rails, RubyGems/RubyForge are OK since I don't use them, but YAML is already fixed AFAICT. Cheers, Jeremy Henty