How to work with ActiveState Ruby for Development Teams
The ActiveState Platform now provides support for the Ruby programming language, including Rails. This brings the Platform’s many benefits to Ruby developers, including vulnerability reporting, dependency management, and restorable environments. This video shows how.
To follow this short video, start by creating your free Platform account.
Simply follow the video step by step to go from adding gems to a project to finding and fixing vulnerabilities to restoring environments. ActiveState Ruby is available for both Linux and Windows. It provides Ruby developers with a number of additional advantages, including:
- Secure Build Service
- Shared Environments
- Restorable Environments
- Vulnerability Reports & Notifications
- Dependency Management
Ready to give it a try? ActiveState Ruby is now available for download from the ActiveState Platform. Currently in Beta, you can download a recent version of Ruby for either Windows or Linux:
No matter which version you choose, you’ll need a free ActiveState Platform account in order to fork a copy of ActiveState Ruby into your own account, and then install it using the provided command-line snippet.
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At ActiveState, we use the Platform to build not only our popular open source language distributions but also custom runtimes for our enterprise clients (i.e., builds containing just the language and packages their project requires). Try it out yourself or get a personalized demo and understand how it can support your enterprise’s open-source needs.
