Oh the problem has NOTHING to do with "10 minutes ago".
Ubuntus's latest release 11.10 (yes I know 12.04 is a couple of days away) is Python 2.4. I don't remember what Ruby it is, but it's something like ~=1.8.7. Ruby is on 1.9.3 and the next version of Rails won't even support 1.8.7.
I'd be fine with a year or two old Python and Ruby....
Ubuntus's latest release 11.10 (yes I know 12.04 is a couple of days away) is Python 2.4. I don't remember what Ruby it is, but it's something like ~=1.8.7. Ruby is on 1.9.3 and the next version of Rails won't even support 1.8.7.
I'd be fine with a year or two old Python and Ruby....