Welcome to the Spinel dev log! When we’re not working with client teams, we’re building open source tools that make it easier to be a software developer, especially for Rubyists. Here’s what’s new with our OSS projects in the past month:

rv, the next-generation Ruby version and project manager

• We added `rv fmt` command, built on librubyfmt, to format Ruby files quickly and consistently without needing any additional gems or tools.
• We fixed Powershell integration to correctly auto-update the Ruby version.
• We added `rvx –with` option, to run tools with optional dependencies. For example, `rvx –with pg sequel` lets you use the Sequel gem to connect to Postgres. Thanks, @gilesbowkett!

rv-ruby, precompiled Ruby binaries for x86 and ARM, on macOS or Linux

• We added Ruby 3.4.10, Ruby 4.0.6 and Ruby 3.3.12.
• We updated to OpenSSL 3.6.2, libFFI 3.5.2 and libxcrypt 4.5.2.
• We updated our build system for Homebrew’s 6.0.0 release.

Dyad, our portable shell tool for running two programs together with shared fate

• We added channels, a way to pipe any file descriptor from one program to any file descriptor on the other.
• We fixed a bug that caused “Terminated” messages to appear in some shells when exiting.
• We addressed an edge case that could cause errors when running Dyad with unusual environment variable names.

brut-pack, our tool that bundles a multi-file shell program into a single portable script

• We added support for symbolic links in bundles, as long as they stay within the bundle’s own directory.
• We fixed bundles to run their program with the caller’s environment unmodified.

Thank you!

Thank you to all the contributors to rv and rv-ruby! If you’re interested in our open source projects, we’d love to have you join us as a contributor too. Get started by checking out the projects’ READMEs.

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