NAME

       ruby-standalone - 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.