Project:Ruby
From Gentoo Wiki
| Ruby Project | |
|---|---|
| Description | The Ruby project maintains packages for Ruby implementations, libraries and development tools. This project also maintains the RubyGems package, the de facto standard for packaging Ruby projects. |
| Project email | ruby@gentoo.org |
| Packages | p.g.o/ruby@gentoo.org
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| IRC channel | #gentoo-ruby (webchat) |
| Bugs | Related bugs |
| Lead(s) |
Last elected: 2019-04-28 |
| Member(s) |
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| Subproject(s) (and inherited member(s)) |
(none) |
| Parent Project | Gentoo |
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Information for users
Main implementations
Right now, we include the following Ruby implementations in Gentoo.
- ruby27 - Ruby MRI 2.7
- ruby30 - Ruby MRI 3.0
- ruby31 - Ruby MRI 3.1 (testing)
- ruby32 - Ruby MRI 3.2 (testing)
This graph shows the current distribution of Ruby implementations in Gentoo.
Information for developers
To ease maintenance of Ruby-based packages we currently provide several eclasses:
- Support for generic ruby packages: ruby-ng.eclass
- Support for gem-based ruby packages: ruby-fakegem.eclass
- Support for packages in need of a ruby target: ruby-single.eclass
Further resources:
- Packaging RubyGems
- Ongoing Tasks
- Pending Bumps
- Adding new ruby versions
- Marking a new ruby version stable
- Official Ruby Overlay
- RubyGems packages that need an update
Old and probably outdated documents
- Ruby 2.1 deprecation
- Ruby 2.0 deprecation
- Ruby 1.9 deprecation
- Ruby 1.9 migration
- Ruby 1.8 deprecation
Recruitment
We are currently looking for users interested in helping the project with these jobs:
| Title | Description | Requirements | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruby core package maintainer | Ruby core package maintainer to help out with the core ruby packages (dev-lang/ruby and dev-ruby/rubygems). Revision bumping, handling security bugs, patching packages to play nice with Gentoo, following upstream to handle changes and updates in a timely manner. | Experience with ruby on Linux, ideally Gentoo. Knowledge of C and ruby. Experience with patching software. | ruby@gentoo.org |
| Ruby package maintainer | General ruby package maintainer to help out managing packages in the herd. Revision bumping, bug filing/fixing, updating ebuilds per eclass or syntax changes, etc. This involves a mix of gem and source based ebuilds. | Experience with ruby on Linux, ideally Gentoo. Knowledge of the gem repository system and its supporting software and experience with building ruby software using setup.rb and its many incarnations. | ruby@gentoo.org |