Enable and integrate the Ruby plugin
Metadata
Current evaluation
Open enhancement awaiting external contributors to implement the Ruby plugin for charms, including configuration, testing, and base restrictions, with maintainer review available for submitted PRs.
Suggested action: keep open
Reason: The issue is a well-scoped enhancement created by a maintainer with clear acceptance criteria and implementation steps. While inactive for ~3 months, it remains relevant and explicitly open to external contributions. It has already been assessed by the team, so no triage is needed, but it should remain open to track community interest and potential PRs.
Staleness:
35
Complexity:
40
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
0
Issue body
### Request
The Charmcraft team currently has no intention of enabling or supporting ruby inside of charms (be that Ruby-based charms or the addition of Ruby code as part of a charm). However, if outside contributors want to take on this project, we are happy to review PRs to that effect. The work that would be required includes:
- [ ] Enable the Ruby plugin from craft-parts or create a subclass that modifies the Ruby plugin to be appropriate for charms.
- [ ] Create a spread test that builds and tests a basic ruby-based charm (including deploying it to Juju).
- [ ] Ensure the Ruby plugin is only enabled for the appropriate bases.
### The problem it solves
Enables ruby-based charms (if the charming community is interested in these).
If someone wants to take on this project, we would expect them to show at least one existing charm for which they are a contributor and a specific charm they would like to create using Ruby.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-15 12:24:08.687382+00:00 | qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
35
Complexity:
40
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
0
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keep open | Open enhancement awaiting external contributors to implement the Ruby plugin for charms, including configuration, testing, and base restrictions, with maintainer review available for submitted PRs. |
| 2026-06-15 12:20:47.199873+00:00 | pending | — | — | — |