Remove Support for Ruby v1.8.7

[parkr]

Ruby 1.8.7 is dead.

We can start pressing forward with better hash syntax
and newer libraries which only support 1.9 and greater. Yay for The Future! (tm)

[mattr-]

Regarding the newer hash syntax, are we supposed to be following GitHub's Ruby styleguide? I only ask because it says to use hash rockets over the newer syntax.

[parkr]

@mattr- Yeah, I don't really care about the way we write hashes. But I'm excited to get rid of this code!

[mattr-]

❤️❤️❤️

[kelvinst]

😍

[cs]

👍

[doktorbro]

Please keep in mind that the latest Ubuntu LTS is shipped with Ruby v1.8.7.

ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [i686-linux]

Next Ubuntu LTS with newer Ruby will be released in April 2014.

[mattr-]

So is the latest version of CentOS. 

I don’t care what the distributions do. If they want to ship unsupported Rubies, then they can maintain older versions of the gem.

[kelvinst]

I totally agree with @mattr-

So is the latest version of CentOS.

I don’t care what the distributions do. If they want to ship unsupported
Rubies, then they can maintain older versions of the gem.

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[parkr]

@penibelst Noted! With tools like rbenv, rvm, chruby, etc, it should be relatively easy to move to a newer version of Ruby on those systems. I use rbenv on CentOS 6 and it's working just fine. :)

@mattr- Any other notes? I think I found everything in the codebase that was a 1.8 work-around. Good to merge.

[mattr-]

ssshhhhhiiiiiippppppppp iiiiiiiiiitttttttttt!

😃 ❤️ 🎉 💥 etc etc.

[kelvinst]

yeeeehaw!!! 💥 ❤️ 😍 🐮

[doktorbro]

@mattr- Will Jekyll 2 use Redcarpet version 3?

[parkr]

@penibelst I sure hope so!

[doktorbro]

@parkr This sounds really interesting. Now I understand why you are so euphoric. It’s time for me to update my Ubuntu.

[doktorbro]

For the record, removing Ruby 1.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 was very easy. Now I have

ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30 revision 33570) [i686-linux]

I took me only 5 minutes.