The Ruby Runtime

Cloud Functions supports the following Ruby runtimes:

  • Ruby 2.7 (recommended)
  • Ruby 2.6

For instructions on how to prepare your local machine for Ruby development, see Setting up a Ruby development environment.

To get started with Ruby on Cloud Functions, see the Quickstart.

Selecting the runtime

You can select the Ruby runtime for your function during deployment.

gcloud

If you are using the gcloud command-line tool, you can specify the runtime by using the --runtime parameter. NAME specifies the function name. For example:

gcloud functions deploy NAME --runtime ruby27 --trigger-http

For more arguments that you can specify when you are deploying, see Deploy using the gcloud tool.

Console

If you are using the Cloud Console, you can select the runtime when you create and deploy a function. See the Cloud Console quickstart for detailed instructions.

Execution environment

The execution environment includes the runtime, the operating system, and a library that invokes your function. The runtime supports Ruby 2.6 and Ruby 2.7.

The Ruby runtime uses an execution environment based on Ubuntu 18.04. See Cloud Functions Execution Environment for more information.

The library that invokes your function is the Ruby Functions Framework.

Source code structure

In order for Cloud Functions to find your function's definition, each runtime has certain structuring requirements for your source code. See Writing Cloud Functions for more information.

Specifying dependencies

You can specify dependencies for your function by adding them to a project file. For more information, see Specifying dependencies in Ruby.

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