Ansible role ruby

Installs ruby with the help of the ruby-install tool. Just provide a ruby version number (and optionally the ruby edition, see below) and this role will take care of the rest.

Does a clean ruby install by downloading and compiling ruby (no rvm/rbenv/chruby/package repo business), see ruby-install. Once installed the ruby version is linked from /usr/local/bin to make it the system wide default version. So this role is most practical for server installation where you don't have the need to juggle multiple ruby versions on the same machine.

This role also installs the bundler gem for you. So you are ready to go right away!

Credits

Based on the two existing ansible roles:

• innohub-ansible.ruby-install - Github, Galaxy
• joshualund.ruby-common - Github, Galaxy

Requirements

Tested only on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Server. Supports only Ubuntu and perhaps Debian based systems (apt).

Role Variables

• ruby_version_string: Edition and version of ruby you want to have installed. Default to ruby (MRI) 2.2.3. So you can either just do a version like 2.2.1 if you want just standard (MRI) ruby. Or prepend the version with a edition. For example jruby-1.7

Optionally you can also specify the version of the ruby-install script with ruby_install_version.

See more (less relevant) variables you can modify in defaults/main.yml.

Dependencies

Needs no other Ansible roles to run.

Example Playbook

Example Playbook integration:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     { role: mediapeers.ruby, ruby_version_string: 2.2.3 }

Also works with jruby (or any ruby that ruby-install supports). Example: ruby_version_string: jruby-1.7.21. So the version directive works like the one found in .ruby-version files.

License

MIT License. As I based my work on above metioned projects. See LICENSE file for full text.