ruby1.8 1.8.1+1.8.2pre4-1 (ia64 binary) in ubuntu hoary

Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby 1.8
 Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy
 object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text
 files and to do system management tasks (as in perl). It is simple,
 straight-forward, and extensible.
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 This package provides version 1.8 series of Ruby.