Good point. A major part of the simplicity is that ry doesn't need to be loaded into your shell or shim any binaries. You simply add $PREFIX/lib/ry/current/bi

Good point. A major part of the simplicity is that ry doesn't need to be loaded into your shell or shim any binaries. You simply add $PREFIX/lib/ry/current/bin to your $PATH (there's a helper to do this), and vanilla ruby/rubygems take care of the rest. Ry also punts on indexing and listing the various implemetations of Ruby out there - you give it a reference name and a source tarball url, and it runs ./configure PREFIX=...; make install. That allows it to be magic-free with respect to naming different rubies - just give it a shortcut name that you'll remember.