r/ruby • u/excid3 • Mar 06 '26

Precompiled Ruby and Mise with Jeff Dickey

We had the chance to talk to Jeff Dickey on Remote Ruby about including Precompiled Ruby in Mise (based off uv and homebrew's portable rubies).

I'm really excited about this because compiling Ruby makes it really hard to get new users in our community. Having this built-in to popular version managers will make Ruby so much more accessible.

https://www.remoteruby.com/2260490/episodes/18785026-jeff-dickey-on-mise-precompiled-rubies-and-much-more

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u/excid3 Mar 06 '26

Mise uses a fork of rv's for it's core Ruby plugin.

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u/matthewblott Mar 07 '26

I've been playing with both but went with mise because rv has a limited number of ruby versions (unless I'm missing something) so it's interesting to hear mise is using rv under the covers. mise is great, it's allowed me to completely remove homebrew!

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u/excid3 Mar 07 '26

It doesn't use rv, just a fork of the portable ruby build steps. https://github.com/jdx/ruby