Installing TruffleRuby

The recommended way to install TruffleRuby is via your Ruby manager/installer, see Getting Started.

You can also install TruffleRuby by manually downloading the binary tarball, extracting it, running the post-install script and adding TruffleRuby to $PATH. This page documents the URLs and the extra steps necessary after downloading the tarball.

Dependencies

TruffleRuby’s dependencies need to be installed for TruffleRuby to run correctly.

Oracle GraalVM and GraalVM Community Edition

There are 2 variants of TruffleRuby and GraalVM:

Oracle GraalVM, which provides the best TruffleRuby experience: it is significantly faster and more memory-efficient.
GraalVM Community Edition, which is fully open-source.

Oracle GraalVM is the GraalVM distribution from Oracle available under the GraalVM Free Terms and Conditions.

Download Links

Native Standalone

Releases of the Native Standalone are available on GitHub. The Native Standalones are the files:

# Oracle GraalVM Native Standalone
truffleruby-VERSION-PLATFORM.tar.gz
# GraalVM Community Edition Native Standalone
truffleruby-community-VERSION-PLATFORM.tar.gz

Development builds are also available.
More platforms for dev builds are available here but those builds tend to be slightly older. The Native Standalones are the files truffleruby-community-dev-PLATFORM.tar.gz.

JVM Standalone

Releases of the Native Standalone are available on GitHub. The JVM Standalones are the files:

# Oracle GraalVM JVM Standalone
truffleruby-jvm-VERSION-PLATFORM.tar.gz
# GraalVM Community Edition JVM Standalone
truffleruby-community-jvm-VERSION-PLATFORM.tar.gz

Development builds are also available. The JVM Standalones are the files truffleruby-community-jvm-dev-PLATFORM.tar.gz.

After Downloading

Once you have downloaded a tarball, extract it. We will refer to the directory you extracted it as $EXTRACTED_DIRECTORY. This directory should contain bin/truffleruby, lib/truffle, etc.

Then you need to run the post-install script. This is necessary to make the Ruby openssl C extension work with your system libssl. The path of the script will be:

$EXTRACTED_DIRECTORY/lib/truffle/post_install_hook.sh

You can then add $EXTRACTED_DIRECTORY/bin to PATH and use ruby/gem/bundle/etc.

RubyGems Configuration

Note that you also need to ensure GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH are not set, so TruffleRuby uses the correct GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH. See Using TruffleRuby without a Ruby manager for details.