NAME

       ruby-standlone - use (only) the Ruby interpreter from Debian

USAGE

       ruby-standalone [PROGRAM] [ARGS]

DESCRIPTION

       ruby-standlone  allows  one  to  use the Ruby interpreter provided by Debian (and thus get
       security support for stable releases), without having  to  also  use  Ruby  libraries  and
       applications from Debian.

       When  called  with  no arguments, ruby-standalone will spawn a new shell, where all of the
       standard Ruby programs (ruby, erb, gem, irb, rdoc, ri, testrb) will never  use  code  from
       Debian-provided packages.

       Otherwise, PROGRAM will be called with ARGS as arguments, in that same context.

       Caveat: if PROGRAM is not installed as a Rubygem and is installed by a Debian package, the
       Debian package version will be used.

USE CASES

       ruby-standalone makes it possible to:

       • install vagrant from the Debian repository and at the  sime  time  develop  a  Ruby  web
         application that needs gem versions different than the ones that were pulled in from the
         Debian repository when vagrant was installed.

       • install chef from the Debian repository on a node that will  host  an  application  that
         needs different gem versions than the ones chef needs.

       • on the same server, host redmine installed from the Debian repository and in-house Rails
         application that needs a different version of Rails than the one Debian provides.

LICENSE

       Copyright © 2014, Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>

       ruby-standalone is licensed under the same terms as Ruby itself.  See the file COPYING for
       details.