oracular (1) ruby-standalone.1.gz

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NAME
       ruby-standalone - use (only) the Ruby interpreter from Debian


SYNOPSIS
       ruby-standalone
       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) in $PATH 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 © 2014-2020 Antonio Terceiro terceiro@debian.org

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

                                                   August 2024                                RUBY-STANDALONE(1)