Homebrew Portable Ruby

Formulae and tools to build versions of Ruby that can be installed and run from anywhere on the filesystem.

How do I install these formulae

Just brew install homebrew-ppc64le/portable-ruby/<formula>.

How do I build packages for these formulae

Build a Docker image for your architecture by running one of the following commands.

• docker build -f Dockerfile-ppc64le --platform linux/ppc64le --build-arg img=debian:buster -t homebrew-portable .

Build the portable-ruby package using that Docker image.

docker run --name=homebrew-portable-ruby -w /bottle homebrew-portable brew portable-package ruby
docker cp homebrew-portable-ruby:/bottle .

Current Status

Used in production for homebrew-ppc64le/brew.

Linux

1. irb on Linux builds seems to fail to link to ncurses statically. If portable-ncurses is removed, irb will fail to handle left, right or backspace keystroke.

License

Code is under the BSD 2 Clause (NetBSD) license.