postmodern
install from ruby checkout on local machine
as far as I can tell, there isn't a way to provide ruby-install with a directory path to a ruby checkout on my machine. It'd be nice to have it be able to install a ruby from a working directory so that I can test out patches in a more long term. Is this a use case that could be supported?
It's not directly supported, but you can pair --src-dir with --no-extract to effectively install a Ruby from a working directory if the directory is named as expected. For example, you can install current trunk with:
git clone [email protected]:ruby/ruby.git ruby-2.7.0dev --depth 1
ruby-install --no-extract --src-dir . ruby-2.7.0dev
There currently isn't a flag that sets the $src_dir/$ruby_dir_name directly for an arbitrarily-named $ruby_dir_name.
A possibility would be to add a --ruby-src-dir option. Maybe something like:
-S, --ruby-src-dir DIR Source code directory of a particular Ruby