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| 1 This directory contains the Ruby extension that implements Protocol Buffers |
| 2 functionality in Ruby. |
| 3 |
| 4 The Ruby extension makes use of generated Ruby code that defines message and |
| 5 enum types in a Ruby DSL. You may write definitions in this DSL directly, but |
| 6 we recommend using protoc's Ruby generation support with .proto files. The |
| 7 build process in this directory only installs the extension; you need to |
| 8 install protoc as well to have Ruby code generation functionality. |
| 9 |
| 10 Installation from Gem |
| 11 --------------------- |
| 12 |
| 13 When we release a version of Protocol Buffers, we will upload a Gem to |
| 14 [RubyGems](https://www.rubygems.org/). To use this pre-packaged gem, simply |
| 15 install it as you would any other gem: |
| 16 |
| 17 $ gem install [--prerelease] google-protobuf |
| 18 |
| 19 The `--pre` flag is necessary if we have not yet made a non-alpha/beta release |
| 20 of the Ruby extension; it allows `gem` to consider these "pre-release" |
| 21 alpha/beta versions. |
| 22 |
| 23 Once the gem is installed, you may or may not need `protoc`. If you write your |
| 24 message type descriptions directly in the Ruby DSL, you do not need it. |
| 25 However, if you wish to generate the Ruby DSL from a `.proto` file, you will |
| 26 also want to install Protocol Buffers itself, as described in this repository's |
| 27 main `README` file. The version of `protoc` included in the latest release |
| 28 supports the `--ruby_out` option to generate Ruby code. |
| 29 |
| 30 A simple example of using the Ruby extension follows. More extensive |
| 31 documentation may be found in the RubyDoc comments (`call-seq` tags) in the |
| 32 source, and we plan to release separate, more detailed, documentation at a |
| 33 later date. |
| 34 |
| 35 require 'google/protobuf' |
| 36 |
| 37 # generated from my_proto_types.proto with protoc: |
| 38 # $ protoc --ruby_out=. my_proto_types.proto |
| 39 require 'my_proto_types' |
| 40 |
| 41 mymessage = MyTestMessage.new(:field1 => 42, :field2 => ["a", "b", "c"]) |
| 42 mymessage.field1 = 43 |
| 43 mymessage.field2.push("d") |
| 44 mymessage.field3 = SubMessage.new(:foo => 100) |
| 45 |
| 46 encoded_data = MyTestMessage.encode(mymessage) |
| 47 decoded = MyTestMessage.decode(encoded_data) |
| 48 assert decoded == mymessage |
| 49 |
| 50 puts "JSON:" |
| 51 puts MyTestMessage.encode_json(mymessage) |
| 52 |
| 53 Installation from Source (Building Gem) |
| 54 --------------------------------------- |
| 55 |
| 56 To build this Ruby extension, you will need: |
| 57 |
| 58 * Rake |
| 59 * Bundler |
| 60 * Ruby development headers |
| 61 * a C compiler |
| 62 |
| 63 To Build the JRuby extension, you will need: |
| 64 |
| 65 * Maven |
| 66 * The latest version of the protobuf java library (see ../java/README.md) |
| 67 * Install JRuby via rbenv or RVM |
| 68 |
| 69 First switch to the desired platform with rbenv or RVM. |
| 70 |
| 71 Then install the required Ruby gems: |
| 72 |
| 73 $ gem install bundler |
| 74 $ bundle |
| 75 |
| 76 Then build the Gem: |
| 77 |
| 78 $ rake |
| 79 $ rake clobber_package gem |
| 80 $ gem install `ls pkg/google-protobuf-*.gem` |
| 81 |
| 82 To run the specs: |
| 83 |
| 84 $ rake test |
| 85 |
| 86 This gem includes the upb parsing and serialization library as a single-file |
| 87 amalgamation. It is up-to-date with upb git commit |
| 88 `535bc2fe2f2b467f59347ffc9449e11e47791257`. |
| 89 |
| 90 Version Number Scheme |
| 91 --------------------- |
| 92 |
| 93 We are using a version number scheme that is a hybrid of Protocol Buffers' |
| 94 overall version number and some Ruby-specific rules. Gem does not allow |
| 95 re-uploads of a gem with the same version number, so we add a sequence number |
| 96 ("upload version") to the version. We also format alphabetical tags (alpha, |
| 97 pre, ...) slightly differently, and we avoid hyphens. In more detail: |
| 98 |
| 99 * First, we determine the prefix: a Protocol Buffers version "3.0.0-alpha-2" |
| 100 becomes "3.0.0.alpha.2". When we release 3.0.0, this prefix will be simply |
| 101 "3.0.0". |
| 102 * We then append the upload version: "3.0.0.alpha.2.0" or "3.0.0.0". If we need |
| 103 to upload a new version of the gem to fix an issue, the version becomes |
| 104 "3.0.0.alpha.2.1" or "3.0.0.1". |
| 105 * If we are working on a prerelease version, we append a prerelease tag: |
| 106 "3.0.0.alpha.3.0.pre". The prerelease tag comes at the end so that when |
| 107 version numbers are sorted, any prerelease builds are ordered between the |
| 108 prior version and current version. |
| 109 |
| 110 These rules are designed to work with the sorting rules for |
| 111 [Gem::Version](http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/rubygems/rdoc/Gem/Version.h
tml): |
| 112 release numbers should sort in actual release order. |
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