[eggnet]

freebsd apparently agrees with you. They back ported the security fixes instead of syncing up with the latest version.

http://www.freshports.org/lang/ruby18/

Maybe this is a lesson not to blindly use ruby without going through a trusted distributor. Not unlike linux?

[maw]

Not just freebsd, of course. Backporting patches is standard practice for all the serious Linux distributors as well.