Centralize Ruby Version to .ruby-version

[george-ma]

What are you trying to accomplish?

The .ruby-version file is the ecosystem standard for defining a Ruby version. This PR adds the .ruby-version file, ensures a required_ruby_version is set, and removes all other references to Ruby in this repository, aligning it with the standard.

What should reviewers focus on?

Important

Please verify the following before merging:

Verify that the changes in the PR meets the following requirements or adjust manually to make it compliant:

• .ruby-version file is present with the correct Ruby version defined
• A required_ruby_version in your gemspec is set
• There is no Ruby version present in the dev.yml Ruby task (before: - ruby: x.x.x, after: - ruby)
• There is no Ruby version/requirement referenced in the Gemfile (no lines with ruby <some-version>)
• A Gemfile.lock is built with the defined Ruby version Can't and won't do this since this is a gem that is used across different versions.
• The version of Rubocop installed is 1.61.0 or greater Can't do this because the gem needs to support Ruby 2.6.
• There is no TargetRubyVersion defined in rubocop.yml (reads from required_ruby_version on Rubocop 1.61.0) Can't do this. Need to support 2.6.
• There is no Ruby argument present in ruby/setup-ruby Github Actions that do not run on a Ruby matrix (no lines with ruby-version: “x.x”)

To establish consistency, the required_ruby_versionis set to 2.7. If you think that another version is a better fit, please make the applicable changes. Set to 2.6.

Please merge this PR if it looks good, this PR will be addressed if there isn't any activity after 4 weeks.

[atesgoral]

We can't drop 2.6 support since ruby-openai still supports it (and other gems also might): https://rubygems.org/gems/event_stream_parser/reverse_dependencies

[george-ma]

thanks for tackling this! 🙌🏻