Traveling Ruby
Self-contained Ruby binaries that can run on any Linux distribution and any macOS machine. [Moved to: https://github.com/FooBarWidget/traveling-ruby] (by phusion)
backports
The latest features of Ruby backported to older versions. (by marcandre)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Traveling Ruby
Posts with mentions or reviews of Traveling Ruby.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-06.
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Ruby
If you absolutely need a native binary distribution for your apps, there is a project called Traveling Ruby that originated at Phusion, makers of the popular Phusion Passenger Ruby application server. It's worth noting that this project has a number of open issues that are aging and the latest commits are from 2021, so I'm not sure about its current status. There are also important caveats with regard to native extensions and Windows. Given the popularity of packages that require native extensions (like the XML/HTML library Nokogiri), you may find that this solution simply doesn't work for you.
- Is there a way to package up a Ruby script as a desktop executable app?
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Having issues installing Ruby
You may be to get a precompiled binary with OpenSSL 1.1 statically linked. Maybe Traveling Ruby? https://github.com/phusion/traveling-ruby
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Alternatives for Ocra ???
There's really not much else in this space. The main alternative - Traveling Ruby - has limitations on Windows and I don't think it supports Ruby 3.0.
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Vagrant is being rewritten in Go.
But even with all of the above, you're absolutely right, it is just easier to ship a binary blob. That's where the rewrite totally pays off. I just wonder whether the team has stressed all the options when it comes to keep ruby. There are packaging solutions which ship with its own interpreter, such as Travelling Ruby. And mruby could also generate a binary blob, although they'd have to open another can of works, such as finding replacements for dependencies such as net-ssh, which AFAIK can't be used with mruby. So in the end, maybe they did. And given the prevalence of go products in hashicorp, maybe it makes sense to just invest a bit more in it?
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My Ruby game is getting false positives in virus scanners. Help?
You could try using Traveling Ruby as an alternative to Ocra. I have only used Ocra in the past for this task, but I'd say it's worth a try.
backports
Posts with mentions or reviews of backports.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-07.
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Marc-André Lafortune on the abstract syntax tree and rewiring Rubocop
This week we’re talking to Marc-André Lafortune, a longtime contributor to the Ruby and Elixir communities, member of the Ruby and rubocop core teams including the core rubocop-ast engine, and creator of the backports gem.
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Ruby 3.2 All about "Data" Simple Immutable Value Objects
Yes, I was planning to add it to https://github.com/marcandre/backports, but I didn't have time to. I joined the army training and will be... let's say probably less active in the community for some time.
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Alternatives for Ocra ???
You might be better off using Ruby 2.x for now and waiting until Ruby 3.0 is supported on either. Are there Ruby 3-specific features you need? There might be support for them via the backports gem.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Traveling Ruby and backports you can also consider the following projects:
Codacy
rubocop-ast - RuboCop's AST extensions and NodePattern functionality
OctoLinker - OctoLinker — Links together, what belongs together
parser - A Ruby parser.
Hakiri - Secure Ruby apps with Hakiri
deep-cover - The best coverage tool for Ruby code
Gitlab CI - GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
PR Dashboard
HuBoard - Kanban board for github issues
HoundCI - Automated code review for GitHub pull requests.
Travis CI.com - Free continuous integration platform for GitHub projects.
AppSignal - 🟥 AppSignal for Ruby gem
Traveling Ruby vs Codacy
backports vs rubocop-ast
Traveling Ruby vs OctoLinker
backports vs parser
Traveling Ruby vs Hakiri
backports vs deep-cover
Traveling Ruby vs Gitlab CI
Traveling Ruby vs PR Dashboard
Traveling Ruby vs HuBoard
Traveling Ruby vs HoundCI
Traveling Ruby vs Travis CI.com
Traveling Ruby vs AppSignal