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cross-gem

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cross-gem

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cross-gem

Cross compiles a native Ruby gem written in Rust

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

 
              
- name: cross-gem

              
  uses: oxidize-rb/cross-gem-action@v1
Learn more about this action in oxidize-rb/cross-gem-action

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Cross Gem Action

MIT licensed Join the discussion Continuous integration

This action makes it easy to compile and package native Rubygems that are written in Rust. Under the hood, it uses a customized version rake-compiler-dock to compile a gem, and is meant to be used in tandem with rb-sys.

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Example workflow

# Adjust this based on your release workflow
on:
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  native_gem:
    name: Compile native gem
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      platform:
        - x86_64-linux
        - aarch64-linux
        - arm-linux
        - x86_64-darwin
        - arm64-darwin
        - x64-mingw32
        - x64-mingw-ucrt
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1
        with:
          ruby-version: '3.1'
          bundler-cache: true

      - uses: oxidize-rb/cross-gem@v1
        with:
          platform: ${{ matrix.platform }}
          env: | # optional
            RUBY_CC_VERSION=3.1.0:3.0.0:2.7.0
            SOME_OTHER_ENV=some_value

Inputs

Name Required Description Type Default
platform Target Ruby platform string
directory Directory of the Rakefile string
env Extra env to set in the container string

License

This Action is distributed under the terms of the MIT license, see LICENSE for details.