Ruby

This is a Ruby engine used to launch Ruby apps on Nanobox. It installs all binaries to run a Ruby app.

Usage

To use the Ruby engine, specify ruby as your engine in your boxfile.yml.

run.config:
  engine: ruby

Build Process

When then engine builds and prepares the code, it runs the following:

• bundle install
• bundle clean

Configuration Options

This engine exposes configuration options through the boxfile.yml, a yaml config file used to provision and configure your app's infrastructure when using Nanobox.

Overview of Basic Boxfile Configuration Options

run.config:
  engine: ruby
  engine.config:
    runtime: ruby-2.2
    postgresql_client_version: "9.6"

---

runtime

Specifies which Ruby runtime and version to use. The following runtimes are available:

• ruby-1.9
• ruby-2.0
• ruby-2.1
• ruby-2.2
• ruby-2.3 (default)
• ruby-2.4
• ruby-2.5
• jruby-1.6
• jruby-1.7
• jruby-9.0

run.config:
  engine.config:
    runtime: 'ruby-2.3'

---

postgresql_client_version

If the 'pg' gem is detected the engine will install the postgresql client. You can specify the version to install using postgresql_client_version in your boxfile.yml.

NOTE: The engine will try to detect the correct version first.

• 9.3
• 9.4
• 9.5
• 9.6
• 10

run.config:
  engine.config:
    postgresql_client_version: "9.6"

---

Ruby on Nanobox

For more information about using Ruby on Nanobox, view the Ruby guides.

Help & Support

This is an engine provided by Nanobox. If you are running into an issue with the engine, feel free to create a new issue on this project.