Feature #20887: Add "latest" version to "docs.ruby-lang.org"

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[p8 (Petrik de Heus)]

Searching for Ruby documentation regularly returns outdated documentation.
For example searching for "ruby comparable" : https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ruby%20comparable" returns:

• Module: Comparable (Ruby 2.5.8)
• Module: Comparable (Ruby 3.0.3)

It would be nice if we had a https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/latest that points the latest released version.

Older versions could add the "canonical" link to the document head.
This lets search engines know what the preferred version is:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/latest/Comparable.html" />

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/rel#canonical

This would also allow others to link to this latest versions, instead of hardcoding the version or using "master".

[p8 (Petrik de Heus)]

• Description updated (diff)

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

Module: Comparable (Ruby 2.5.8)
Module: Comparable (Ruby 3.0.3)

The above results are https://ruby-doc.org/, not https://docs.ruby-lang.org/.