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Unleash Ruby

Uru is a lightweight, multi-platform command line tool that helps you use the multiple rubies (currently MRI and JRuby) on your 32/64-bit Windows, Linux, or OS X systems.

While there are a number of fantastic ruby environment managers such as RVM, rbenv, pik, and chruby, none are truely multi-platform, and all provide different levels of awesomeness. In contrast, uru is a micro-kernel. It provides a core set of minimal complexity, cross-platform ruby use enhancers.

For the most part, Ruby is a multi-platform joy to use. Wouldn't it be great if your ruby environment manager spoke multi-platform?

Easy to Install

The quickest path to uru zen is to download the binary archive for your platform type, extract its contents to a directory already on PATH, and perform one of the following installs. To build and install uru from Go source, review installation and usage.

Windows systems

:: assuming C:\tools is on PATH and uru_rt.exe was extracted to C:\tools
C:\tools>uru_rt admin install

:: register a pre-existing "system" ruby already placed on PATH as part
:: of cmd.exe initialization
C:\tools>uru_rt admin add system

Linux and OS X systems

# assuming ~/bin is on PATH and uru_rt was extracted to ~/bin
$ cd ~/bin && chmod +x uru_rt

# append to ~/.profile on Ubuntu, or to ~/.zshrc on Zsh
$ echo 'eval "$(uru_rt admin install)"' >> ~/.bash_profile

# register a pre-existing "system" ruby already placed on PATH from bash/Zsh
# startup configuration files
$ uru_rt admin add system

# restart shell
$ exec $SHELL -l

Easy to Use

While a summary of uru's core commands are available here, once your installed rubies have been registered with uru, usage is similar to:

$ uru ls
        173: jruby 1.7.3 (1.9.3p385) 2013-02-21 dac429b on Java HotSpot(TM) Serv...
 =>  system: ruby 2.1.0dev (2013-05-06 trunk 40593) [i686-linux]

$ uru 173
---> Now using jruby 1.7.3

$ uru ls
 =>     173: jruby 1.7.3 (1.9.3p385) 2013-02-21 dac429b on Java HotSpot(TM) Serv...
     system: ruby 2.1.0dev (2013-05-06 trunk 40593) [i686-linux]

$ jruby --version
jruby 1.7.3 (1.9.3p385) 2013-02-21 dac429b on Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM 1.7.0_21-b11 [linux-i386]

$ uru sys
---> Now using ruby 2.1.0dev

$ uru ls
        173: jruby 1.7.3 (1.9.3p385) 2013-02-21 dac429b on Java HotSpot(TM) Serv...
 =>  system: ruby 2.1.0dev (2013-05-06 trunk 40593) [i686-linux]

$ ruby --version
ruby 2.1.0dev (2013-05-06 trunk 40593) [i686-linux]

$ uru gem li rake
jruby 1.7.3 (1.9.3p385) 2013-02-21 dac429b on Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM 1.7.0_21-b11 [linux-i386]

rake (10.0.3)

ruby 2.1.0dev (2013-05-06 trunk 40593) [i686-linux]

rake (10.0.4, 0.9.6)

$ uru ruby hello.rb
jruby 1.7.3 (1.9.3p385) 2013-02-21 dac429b on Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM 1.7.0_21-b11 [linux-i386]

hello there

ruby 2.1.0dev (2013-05-06 trunk 40593) [i686-linux]

hello there

Documentation

Overview

Uru is a lightweight, minimal install, multi-platform tool that helps you use Ruby more productively. Uru untethers your workflow from a single Ruby.