all-ruby

This software is a script to install historic Ruby versions since ruby-0.49. Also, all-ruby script runs all ruby binaries with same arguments.

Platform

This software is developed on Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) amd64.

However Ruby doesn't support 64 bit platform until ruby 1.8.0. So, the older ruby needs 32 bit development tools which can be installed as follows.

% sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
% sudo apt update
% sudo apt-get build-dep ruby2.5
% sudo apt install rake gcc-multilib \
    zlib1g:i386 libncurses5:i386 libgdbm6:i386 libssl1.1:i386 \
    libreadline7:i386 libffi6:i386

For Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) :

% sudo apt-get build-dep ruby2.3
% sudo apt install rake gcc-multilib \
    zlib1g:i386 libncurses5:i386 libgdbm3:i386 libssl1.0.2:i386 \
    libreadline7:i386 libffi6:i386

Usage

This software provides Rakefile and "rake all" downloads and builds historic ruby versions.

% git clone https://github.com/akr/all-ruby.git
% cd all-ruby
% rake setup_build
% rake all  # this takes long time

Note that rake setup_build is same as mkdir ../build-all-ruby; ln -s ../build-all-ruby build. build-all-ruby directory is required to avoid that ruby -v emits last_commit= line.

all-ruby script runs all ruby binaries.

% ./all-ruby -e 'p RUBY_VERSION'
ruby-0.49             -e:1: syntax error
	      exit 1
ruby-0.50             -e:1: syntax error
	      exit 1
ruby-0.51             -e:1: undefined method `p' for "main"(Object)
	      exit 1
ruby-0.54             -e:1:in method `p': undefined method `p' for "main"(Object)
	      exit 1
ruby-0.55             -e:1: undefined method `p' for "main"(Object)
	      exit 1
...
ruby-0.65             -e:1: undefined method `p' for "main"(Object)
	      exit 1
ruby-0.69             -e:1: Uninitialized constant RUBY_VERSION
	      exit 1
...
ruby-1.3.4-990531     /tmp/rbHMsENn:1: uninitialized constant RUBY_VERSION (NameError)
	      exit 1
ruby-1.3.4-990611     "1.3.4"
...
ruby-2.7.0-preview1   "2.7.0"
% ALL_RUBY_SINCE=ruby-1.6 all-ruby -e 'p 0.class'
ruby-1.6.0            Fixnum
...
ruby-2.3.8            Fixnum
ruby-2.4.0-preview1   Integer
...
ruby-2.7.0-preview1   Integer

Documentation

rake without arguments shows the help message for the Rakefile.

% rake
"rake all" will install 338 ruby
"rake list" shows versions
"rake sync" updates versions

all-ruby without arguments shows help message for all-ruby script.

% ./all-ruby
usage: all-ruby RUBY-ARGS
environment variables:
  ALL_RUBY_SINCE=ruby-1.4               run only versions since specified one
  ALL_RUBY_BINS='ruby-2.4.4 ruby-2.5.1' run only versions specfied
  ALL_RUBY_ADDBINS=./ruby               run specified commands additionaly
  ALL_RUBY_SHOW_DUP=yes                 don't suppress duplicated output

Docker

Dockerfile is provided to generate a docker image containing ruby binaries built by the Rakefile.

Pre-built docker image can be used as follows:

% docker pull rubylang/all-ruby
% docker run --rm rubylang/all-ruby ./all-ruby -v
% docker run --rm -e 'ALL_RUBY_SINCE=ruby-2.0' \
    -e 'ALL_RUBY_ADDBINS=/usr/bin/ruby' \
    rubylang/all-ruby ./all-ruby -e 'p 0.class'

If you want to build a docker image yourself, you can use following command. This uses your CPUs parallel.

% docker build ./ -t my-all-ruby

If you want to use only n CPUs, build argument j=n can be used. (--cpuset-cpus option of "docker build" is also usable.)

% docker build ./ --build-arg j=1 -t my-all-ruby

Links

• https://github.com/akr/all-ruby

Author

Tanaka Akira akr@fsij.org

License

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

(3-clause BSD license)