lang/ruby40 - The NetBSD Packages Collection

Ruby 4.0.1 release package

Ruby is an interpreted object-oriented programming language often used
for web development.  It also offers many scripting features to
process plain text and serialized files, or manage system tasks.  It
is simple, straightforward, and extensible.

Ruby 4.0 introduces a number of new features and performance improvements,
here are some of them:
  * Ruby Box

	a new (experimental) feature to provide separation about definitions

  * Performance: ZJIT

	a new just-in-time (JIT) compiler, which is developed as the
	next generation of YJIT

	It is not enabled on pkgsrc for now.

  * Ractor Improvements
  * Stdlib updates
  * Retirement of RJIT: Experital pure-Ruby JIT compiler

Build dependencies

lang/rust lang/rust pkgtools/mktools devel/pkgconf pkgtools/cwrappers

Runtime dependencies

devel/libffi textproc/libyaml devel/libffi textproc/libyaml

Binary packages

OSArchitectureVersion
(none)

Binary packages can be installed with the high-level tool pkgin (which can be installed with pkg_add) or pkg_add(1) (installed by default). The NetBSD packages collection is also designed to permit easy installation from source.

Available build options

ruby-build-ri-db
Build and install database for Ruby's ri utility.
ruby-yjit
Enable in-process YJIT compiler (require Rust).

Known vulnerabilities

The pkg_admin audit command locates any installed package which has been mentioned in security advisories as having vulnerabilities.

Please note the vulnerabilities database might not be fully accurate, and not every bug is exploitable with every configuration.


Problem reports, updates or suggestions for this package should be reported with send-pr.