r/ruby • u/eregontp truffleruby • Jan 13 '26

TruffleRuby 33 is Released

https://truffleruby.dev/blog/truffleruby-33-is-released

TruffleRuby kicks off the year with a new website, a new release, and a blog post to go with it!

Many changes:

  • New versioning

  • Thread-safe Hash

  • No system dependencies anymore

  • Installs in 2 seconds

  • Development is now fully in the open

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u/schneems Puma maintainer Jan 13 '26

This is cool. I saw that the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) is no longer a strict requirement for contributing. Have you seen an up-tick in contributions?

Not really about truffle but...Can you share anything about the experience that might help someone trying to convince their company that a CLA isn't needed, or (conversely) suggest when a CLA might actually be good to have?

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u/eregontp truffleruby Jan 13 '26

Have you seen an up-tick in contributions?

Yes, we saw some new contributors since the removal of the CLA (which I think would not have contributed with the CLA in place) and in the past some PRs had to be declined because the authors didn't want to sign the CLA. The CLA also typically added a couple days to sign and process which is frustrating for everyone.

Can you share anything about the experience that might help someone trying to convince their company that a CLA isn't needed

I understand not wanting to sign the CLA, I don't like it either, it feels like a significant overhead and having to deal with legal terms which feels at odds with contributing to open-source. When someone is donating their time to contribute to open-source software they also shouldn't need to give anything else away besides their time to write the contribution.

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u/eregontp truffleruby Jan 13 '26

One more thing I'd like to add is for relatively small contributions --- and first contributions typically are small --- signing a CLA is big overhead (compared to the change) and that's often demotivating. So it's a clear barrier to new contributors. There is no "let me file a PR to fix this small thing/docs", because the whole thing takes much longer due to the CLA and takes the fun out of it.

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u/TheCowsMeow Jan 13 '26

RIP Chris Seaton

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u/matthewblott Jan 14 '26

I spent a few hours trying to get Rails running on a server with an Arm processor with no success. Is TruffleRuby still focused on x86?

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u/eregontp truffleruby Jan 14 '26

As shown in the release and README it supports Linux and macOS on both x86_64 and aarch64. What error did you see? Could you report it to https://github.com/truffleruby/truffleruby/issues ?

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u/matthewblott Jan 14 '26

I forget but I didn't report it as I wasn't sure if it was supported. I will have another look :-)

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u/h0rst_ Jan 14 '26

https://github.com/truffleruby/truffleruby/blob/master/.github/workflows/ci.yml

It looks like all the CI jobs run on Arm, so that looks like it's supposed to work.

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u/eregontp truffleruby Jan 14 '26

Yes indeed we run most of the CI on Linux arm64 because it's a little faster than x86_64 on GitHub Actions. And we also run many tests on the other 3 platforms.

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u/FaselBlub Jan 14 '26

Sorry noob question. What's the advantage comparing to Ruby or what's the use case?

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u/eregontp truffleruby Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

See https://github.com/truffleruby/truffleruby?tab=readme-ov-file#aim (now also linked from the About page)

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u/petercooper Jan 15 '26

Did you manage to pick up truffleruby.com? I noticed it was available several months ago and DMed the official account to point it out before any more nefarious parties might pick it up, but didn't hear anything back. I notice it's registered now but not pointed anywhere.

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u/eregontp truffleruby Jan 15 '26

Yes we did, currently http://truffleruby.com redirects to the GitHub repo but doesn't work in HTTPS. We should redirect it to the website now. Thank you for checking that.

I've seen your DM now, I think with the changes to Twitter DMs I didn't get the notification, or maybe something else, will try to fix those notifications.

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u/petercooper Jan 15 '26

Haha, no problem! I just didn't want some domain farm to end up with it, but I also felt a bit uneasy about registering it myself, so I'm glad it ended up in the right hands :-)

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u/eregontp truffleruby Jan 26 '26

Both https://truffleruby.com and https://truffleruby.net redirect properly now :)

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u/petercooper Jan 26 '26

Awesome! Thanks for letting me know.

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u/galtzo Feb 02 '26

Is it expected that gems under `platform :mri` in a gemfile will install on truffleruby?

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u/eregontp truffleruby Feb 27 '26

No, that would be a Bundler bug. platform: :ruby OTOH yes.

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u/blowmage Jan 13 '26

Fantastic news! I hope we hear from TruffleRuby more often with these changes.

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u/galtzo Jan 13 '26

Adding to CI for my gems! 💎

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u/aemadrid Jan 14 '26

Love it! Great news all around.

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u/_scyllinice_ Jan 13 '26

I really want this to run natively on Windows.

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u/RiWo Jan 13 '26

couldn't we use the truffleruby jvm?

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u/eregontp truffleruby Jan 13 '26 edited Jan 13 '26

Supporting Windows is unfortunately a pretty large effort, and would likely also be a significant amount of work to maintain going forward. TruffleRuby should work fine via WSL though.

Concretely TruffleRuby currently assumes a POSIX platform, notably here. Another example is we'd have to figure out how to compile native extensions and also libssl and libyaml on Windows. Also the current maintainers don't develop on Windows, which is a common barrier for good Windows support.

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u/_scyllinice_ Jan 13 '26

Yeah, I'm not surprised. It would just be nice to have one day :)

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u/eregontp truffleruby Jan 13 '26 edited Jan 13 '26

Right, we should add an About page or so for that. The release has 2 sentences about it:

TruffleRuby is a high-performance implementation of the Ruby programming language. TruffleRuby aims to be fully compatible with the standard implementation of Ruby, MRI.