Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.

ruby-lang.org

docker run -it --name ruby bitnami/ruby

ruby:
  image: bitnami/ruby
  command: ruby script.rb
  volumes:
    - /path/to/ruby/app:/app

The recommended way to get the Bitnami Ruby Docker Image is to pull the prebuilt image from the Docker Hub Registry.

docker pull bitnami/ruby:latest

To use a specific version, you can pull a versioned tag. You can view the list of available versions in the Docker Hub Registry.

docker pull bitnami/ruby:[TAG]

If you wish, you can also build the image yourself.

git clone https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-ruby.git
cd bitnami-docker-ruby
docker build -t bitnami/ruby .

By default, running this image will drop you into the Ruby REPL (irb), where you can interactively test and try things out in Ruby.

docker run -it --name ruby bitnami/ruby

Further Reading:

• Ruby IRB Documentation

The default work directory for the Ruby image is /app. You can mount a folder from your host here that includes your Ruby script, and run it normally using the ruby command.

docker run -it --name ruby -v /path/to/ruby/app:/app bitnami/ruby \
  ruby script.rb

If your Ruby app has a Gemfile defining your app's dependencies and start script, you can install the dependencies before running your app.

docker run -it --name ruby -v /path/to/ruby/app:/app bitnami/ruby \
  sh -c "bundle install && ruby script.rb"

or using Docker Compose:

ruby:
  image: bitnami/ruby
  command: "sh -c 'bundle install && ruby script.rb'"

Further Reading:

• rubygems.org
• bundler.io

This image exposes port 3000 in the container, so you should ensure that your web server is binding to port 3000, as well as accepting remote connections.

Below is an example of a Sinatra app listening to remote connections on port 3000:

require 'sinatra'

set :bind, '0.0.0.0'
set :port, 3000

get '/hi' do
  "Hello World!"
end

To access your web server from your host machine you can ask Docker to map a random port on your host to port 3000 inside the container.

docker run -it --name ruby -P bitnami/ruby

Run docker port to determine the random port Docker assigned.

$ docker port ruby
3000/tcp -> 0.0.0.0:32769

You can also manually specify the port you want forwarded from your host to the container.

docker run -it --name ruby -p 8080:3000 bitnami/ruby

Access your web server in the browser by navigating to http://localhost:8080.

If you want to connect to your Ruby web server inside another container, you can use the linking system provided by Docker.

We may want to make our Ruby web server only accessible via an nginx web server. Doing so will allow us to setup more complex configuration, serve static assets using nginx, load balance to different Ruby instances, etc.

Let's create an nginx virtual host to reverse proxy to our Ruby container. The Bitnami nginx Docker Image ships with some example virtual hosts for connecting to Bitnami runtime images. We will make use of the Ruby example:

server {
    listen 0.0.0.0:80;
    server_name yourapp.com;
    access_log /logs/yourapp_access.log;
    error_log /logs/yourapp_error.log;

    location / {
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header HOST $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;

        # proxy_pass http://[your_ruby_container_link_alias]:3000;
        proxy_pass http://yourapp:3000;
        proxy_redirect off;
    }
}

Notice we've substituted the link alias name yourapp, we will use the same name when creating the link.

Copy the virtual host above, saving the file somewhere on your host. We will mount it as a volume in our nginx container.

Docker's linking system uses container ids or names to reference containers. We can explicitly specify a name for our Ruby server to make it easier to connect to other containers.

docker run -it --name ruby -v /path/to/ruby/app:/app bitnami/ruby ruby script.rb

or using Docker Compose:

ruby:
  image: bitnami/ruby
  command: ruby script.rb
  volumes:
    - /path/to/ruby/app:/app

Now that we have our Ruby server running, we can create another container that links to it by giving Docker the --link option. This option takes the id or name of the container we want to link it to as well as a hostname to use inside the container, separated by a colon. For example, to have our Ruby server accessible in another container with yourapp as it's hostname we would pass --link ruby:yourapp to the Docker run command.

docker run -it -v /path/to/vhost.conf:/bitnami/nginx/conf/vhosts/yourapp.conf \
  --link ruby:yourapp \
  bitnami/nginx

or using Docker Compose:

nginx:
  image: bitnami/nginx
  links:
    - ruby:yourapp
  volumes:
    - /path/to/vhost.conf:/bintami/nginx/conf/yourapp.conf

We started the nginx server, mounting the virtual host we created in Step 1, and created a link to the Ruby server with the alias yourapp.

Bitnami provides up-to-date versions of Ruby, including security patches, soon after they are made upstream. We recommend that you follow these steps to upgrade your container.

docker pull bitnami/ruby:latest

or if you're using Docker Compose, update the value of the image property to bitnami/ruby:latest.

docker rm -v ruby

or using Docker Compose:

docker-compose rm -v ruby

Re-create your container from the new image.

docker run --name ruby bitnami/ruby:latest

or using Docker Compose:

docker-compose start ruby

This image is tested for expected runtime behavior, using the Bats testing framework. You can run the tests on your machine using the bats command.

bats test.sh

We'd love for you to contribute to this Docker image. You can request new features by creating an issue, or submit a pull request with your contribution.

If you encountered a problem running this container, you can file an issue. For us to provide better support, be sure to include the following information in your issue:

• Host OS and version
• Docker version (docker version)
• Output of docker info
• Version of this container (echo $BITNAMI_APP_VERSION inside the container)
• The command you used to run the container, and any relevant output you saw (masking any sensitive information)

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