rbenv VS ruby-install

Compare rbenv vs ruby-install and see what are their differences.

ruby-install

Installs Ruby, JRuby, Rubinius, TruffleRuby or MRuby (by postmodern)
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rbenv ruby-install
67 7
15,713 1,853
0.8% -
5.6 7.6
14 days ago 21 days ago
Shell Shell
MIT License MIT License
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rbenv

Posts with mentions or reviews of rbenv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-11.

ruby-install

Posts with mentions or reviews of ruby-install. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-11.
  • Test Driving a Rails API - Part One
    11 projects | dev.to | 11 Mar 2024
    Let’s get started. I prefer to manage my Ruby installations on my development machine with chruby paired with ruby-install. Another outstanding set of tools is rbenv with ruby-build. I highly recommend installing Ruby with one of those two sets of tools. Follow the instructions on their project’s READMEs. For this article, I’ll be running Ruby (MRI) v3.3.0.
  • Having issues installing Ruby
    3 projects | /r/ruby | 11 May 2022
    Anyone have ideas on what the issue is? The closest error message I found searching online was linked to this post which I'm not sure is exactly the same since their error message is on a different line (line 9 vs 14) and doesn't mention openssl like my error message does.
  • cocoapods - `pod setup` failing on `require active_support/core_ext/string/strip` which is installed.
    2 projects | /r/ruby | 14 Mar 2022
    Another option would be to use ruby-install to manually install your desired Ruby version to somewhere on your path. The downside here is that you lose the ability to switch between Rubies. This type of installation would allow you to set $GEM_HOME and $GEM_PATH however you like though.
  • Ruby Mac M1 Chip Monterey issues
    2 projects | /r/ruby | 7 Jan 2022
    you may need to browse some issues like this one https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install/issues/399
  • Install Ruby on Mac without Homebrew?
    6 projects | /r/ruby | 19 Nov 2021
    I use https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install along with https://github.com/postmodern/chruby
  • ruby-install 0.8.3 has been released
    2 projects | /r/ruby | 26 Sep 2021
    ruby-install 0.8.3 has been released. This version explicitly pins the homebrew openssl dependency to [email protected]. OpenSSL 3.0 was released this month and is now available in homebrew. Unfortunately, ruby’s openssl bindings are still working on OpenSSL 3.0 support, so attempting to compile any current ruby version against OpenSSL 3.0 from homebrew will result in a compilation error. Until all actively supported versions of Ruby support OpenSSL 3.0, ruby-install will continue to compile against [email protected] on macOS with homebrew.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rbenv and ruby-install you can also consider the following projects:

asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

RVM - Ruby enVironment Manager (RVM)

chruby - Changes the current Ruby

ruby-build - A tool to download, compile, and install Ruby on Unix-like systems.

nvm - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions

gem_home - A tool for changing your $GEM_HOME

Tokaido - The home of the Tokaido app

fry - Simple ruby version manager for fish

frum - A little bit fast and modern Ruby version manager written in Rust