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Ruby managers and installers

If you installed GraalVM, it is recommended to add TruffleRuby to a Ruby manager. See Configuring Ruby managers for the full GraalVM distribution below.

Installing TruffleRuby with RVM, ruby-build or ruby-install

TruffleRuby is supported by the 3 major Ruby installers.

RVM

Upgrade RVM to let RVM know about the latest TruffleRuby release:

rvm get head

Install TruffleRuby with:

rvm install truffleruby

ruby-build and rbenv

We assume you already have ruby-build installed as a plugin for rbenv.

First, you need to upgrade ruby-build to get the latest TruffleRuby definition. See ruby-build's instructions for upgrading.

Check the latest available version of TruffleRuby with:

rbenv install --list | grep truffleruby

Then install the latest TruffleRuby with:

rbenv install truffleruby-[LATEST_VERSION]

ruby-install and chruby

First, you need at least ruby-install 0.7.0 to get TruffleRuby support. Check your version with:

ruby-install --version

If it is older than 0.7.0, you need to update to latest ruby-install. Follow the installation instructions, since the steps for upgrading ruby-install are the same as the steps for installing it.

Then install TruffleRuby with:

ruby-install --latest
ruby-install truffleruby

There are also instructions on the chruby wiki if you prefer to install TruffleRuby manually.

Configuring Ruby managers for the full GraalVM distribution

When installing GraalVM, it is recommended to add TruffleRuby to a Ruby manager for ease of use.

First, install GraalVM and Ruby. Make sure you ran the post-install script before adding GraalVM to Ruby managers.

Then follow these steps to integrate GraalVM with your Ruby manager.

rbenv

To add TruffleRuby to rbenv, create a symbolic link in the versions directory of rbenv:

$ ln -s path/to/graalvm/jre/languages/ruby "$RBENV_ROOT/versions/truffleruby"
$ rbenv shell truffleruby
$ ruby --version

chruby

To add TruffleRuby to chruby, create a symbolic link to the $HOME/.rubies directory:

$ ln -s path/to/graalvm/jre/languages/ruby "$HOME/.rubies/truffleruby"
$ chruby truffleruby
$ ruby --version

RVM

RVM has a command for adding a precompiled Ruby to the list of available rubies.

$ rvm mount path/to/graalvm/jre/languages/ruby -n truffleruby
$ rvm use ext-truffleruby
$ ruby --version

macOS

Note that on macOS the path is slightly different, and will be path/to/graalvm/Contents/Home/jre/languages/ruby.

Using TruffleRuby without a Ruby manager

If you are using a Ruby manager like rvm, rbenv, or chruby and wish not to add TruffleRuby to one of them make sure that the manager does not set environment variables GEM_HOME, GEM_PATH, and GEM_ROOT. The variables are picked up by TruffleRuby (as any other Ruby implementation would do) causing TruffleRuby to pickup the wrong Gem home instead of its own.

One way to fix this for all sessions is to tell TruffleRuby to ignore GEM_* variables and always use its own Gem home under truffleruby/lib/ruby/gems:

# In ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshenv
$ export TRUFFLERUBY_RESILIENT_GEM_HOME=true

It can also be fixed just for the current terminal by clearing the environment with one of the following commands:

$ rbenv system
$ chruby system
$ rvm use system
# Or manually:
$ unset GEM_HOME GEM_PATH GEM_ROOT