vfox-ruby

Ruby language plugin for vfox.

Requirement

Distribution	Dependencies
Ruby	none
JRuby	JRE v8 or higher
TruffleRuby	bash, make, gcc, g++, openssl-dev, yaml-dev and zlib-dev
Ruby-build	See ruby-build's instructions
mRuby-build	Ruby or TruffleRuby

Install

After installing vfox, install the plugin by running:

vfox add ruby

Next, search and select the version to install. The --ruby-build flag is used to list all the versions that can be built and installed by ruby-build. By default, vfox keeps cache for available versions, use the --no-cache flag to delete the cache file.

vfox search ruby
vfox search ruby --ruby-build
vfox search ruby --no-cache && vfox search ruby

Install the latest stable version with latest tag.

vfox install ruby@latest
vfox install ruby@9.4.5.0     # JRuby
vfox install ruby@24.0.1      # TruffleRuby
vfox install ruby@24.0.1.jvm  # TruffleRuby-jvm
vfox install ruby@3.3.3.rb    # Ruby-build
vfox install ruby@3.3.0.mrb   # mRuby-build

Compiling installation with ruby-build only works on Unix-like systems. All versions of Ruby and mRuby supported by ruby-build (except for the development versions like 3.4-dev) are available.

Some environment variables are served as following:

Environment variables	Default value	Description
Conda_Forge	conda-forge	conda-forge channel
GITHUB_URL	https://github.com/	GitHub mirror URL

Note: Conda_Forge has no effect for Windows.

Usage:

export Conda_Forge=https://prefix.dev/conda-forge
export GITHUB_URL=https://mirror.ghproxy.com/https://github.com/

FAQ

• Why is there a lack of updated versions?
  Currently, vfox-ruby uses precompiled packages from conda-forge and Homebrew on Linux and macOS. You could open an issue in the ruby-feedstock repository to remind the maintainers to provide the latest build. Once the latest version is available, the plugin will be updated soon.