Ruby Rules for Bazel

Overview

This repository hosts Ruby language ruleset for Bazel.

The ruleset is known to work with Bazel 5 and 6.

Getting Started

Pending the first release.

Documentation

• See repository rules for the documentation of WORKSPACE rules.
• See rules for the documentation of BUILD rules.

Toolchains

The following toolchains are known to work and tested on CI.

Ruby	Linux	macOS	Windows
MRI 3.2	🟩	🟩	🟩
MRI 3.1	🟩	🟩	🟩
MRI 3.0	🟩	🟩	🟩
JRuby 9.4	🟩	🟩	🟩
TruffleRuby 23.0	🟩	🟩	🟥

The following toolchains were previously known to work but no longer tested on CI.

Ruby	Linux	macOS	Windows
MRI 2.7	🟩	🟩	🟩
JRuby 9.3	🟩	🟩	🟩
TruffleRuby 22.0	🟩	🟩	🟥

MRI

On Linux and macOS, ruby-build is used to install MRI from sources. Keep in mind, that it takes some time for compilation to complete.

On Windows, RubyInstaller is used to install MRI.

JRuby

On all operating systems, JRuby is downloaded manually. It uses Bazel runtime Java toolchain as JDK.

TruffleRuby

On Linux and macOS, ruby-build is used to install TruffleRuby. Windows is not supported.

Other

On Linux and macOS, you can potentially use any Ruby distribution that is supported by ruby-build. However, some are known not to work or work only partially (e.g. mRuby has no bundler support).

Known Issues

• JRuby/TruffleRuby might need HOME variable exposed. See eamples/gem/.bazelrc to learn how to do that. This is to be fixed in jruby/jruby#5661 and oracle/truffleruby#2784.
• JRuby might fail with Errno::EACCES: Permission denied - NUL error on Windows. You need to configure JDK to allow proper access. See examples/gem/.bazelrc to learn how to do that. This is described in jruby/jruby#7182.
• RuboCop < 1.55 crashes with LoadError on Windows. This is fixed in rubocop/rubocop#12062.
• REPL doesn't work when used with bazel test. To work it around, use a debugger with remote client support such as ruby/debug . See examples/gem/.bazelrc to learn how to do that.