RUBY-STANDALONE(1)

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version 3.0~2 · 4 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 RUBY-STANDALONE(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to ruby-standalone, section 1 of the General Commands Manual. yes it's a real thing, yes it's iconic, let's go 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

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

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ruby-standalone
ruby-standalone [PROGRAM] [ARGS]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so, ruby-standlone (yes that's how it's spelled up top, we don't gatekeep typos 💀) lets you use the Ruby interpreter that Debian gives you — which means you get security support for stable releases 🛡️ — without also having to use Ruby libraries and applications from Debian. the interpreter? Debian's. the gems? literally yours. no cap.

when you call it with no arguments, ruby-standalone will spawn a new shell, and in that shell all of the standard Ruby programs — ruby, erb, gem, irb, rdoc, ri, testrb — that live in $PATH will never use code from Debian-provided packages. not even a little. periodt ✨

otherwise, PROGRAM gets called with ARGS as its arguments, in that exact same context. same vibe, same rules 🫶

⚠️ caveat bestie, listen up: if PROGRAM is not installed as a Rubygem and is installed by a Debian package, then the Debian package version will be used. that's just how it is, i don't make the rules 😭

🌈 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.

like… three whole worlds living on one server, coexisting, no drama. main character energy fr fr 🔥

⭐ 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. 📜

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 💅 this one's from April 2025, and it's RUBY-STANDALONE(1) — go forth and run your Ruby exactly how you want it, iykyk 💜🌸

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