Project:Ruby

Main implementations
Right now, we include the following Ruby implementations in Gentoo.


 * ruby24 - Ruby MRI 2.4
 * ruby25 - Ruby MRI 2.5 (testing)
 * ruby26 - Ruby MRI 2.6 (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
 * Ruby 2.1 deprecation

Old and probably outdated documents

 * Ruby 2.0 deprecation
 * Ruby 1.9 deprecation
 * Ruby 1.9 migration
 * Ruby 1.8 deprecation

