Ruby 2.5 Support

[sirwolfgang]

I attempted to use ruby 2.5, it fails with an exit code of 1 on the build. What must be done to enable 2.5 support?

[9mm]

Also... what about ruby 2.5.1? I have 2.5.1 installed on my system, and I wrote in my gemfile:

ruby '2.5.0'

and in boxfile I have the 2.5 runtime.

I get this error:

 - Running bundle install :
   Your Ruby version is 2.5.0, but your Gemfile specified 2.5.1

[stmoerman]

Looks like they haven't added support yet for newer versions after 2.4 - not sure what is causing them to take that long but I hope to see support soon. It's a reason for our team to stay away from the platform for the time being.

[danhunsaker]

Apologies for the delay. We've been locked in our work cages getting obsolete infrastructure and services cleanly shut off without negatively impacting the customers still using it, which took quite a lot longer than expected or desired. The caffeine reserves weren't quite enough to keep us awake 24/7, and i heard something at one point about employment laws restricting our hours of productivity or something? Anyway, that project's essentially finished, now, and we're just cleaning up the bits of debris we missed (it's not easy to clean the work cage's chemical toilet properly without actually taking it out, as it turns out), so we should be able to get back to releasing updated packages in the pkgsrc repo, and updating engines to use them correctly. Might still be another week or two, but we're optimistic.

Thanks for holding on as long as you have so far! And keep your eyes and ears open for the official release of nbx in the coming months, which decouples you from our workflow and lets you use Docker the way it was meant to be used (mostly; it still doesn't handle data components correctly, so we'll still provide those) - mix and match and however you want it set up. It's honestly really great stuff, and it's apparently only gotten better since I last shuffled past the Executive Think Tank Lounge and saw what they'd come up with a couple months ago. 💜

[requnix]

Just a heads up, I'm currently using 2.5.0 without issue so I think this has been resolved.