Prepping your Gemfile for Rubinius

By Chris Gaffney

Rubinius 2.0 is on it’s way and it’s shaping up to be a serious contender. Adding support for Rubinius to your gem should be pretty painless.

Here at [i] it’s common for us to depend on support utilities like ruby-debug or perftools. Fortunately Rubinius comes with a very solid debugger and profiler. The best solution I’ve found is to use Bundler’s :platform rules to limit what libraries get loaded.