Ruby Now Supported Natively on AWS Lambda

I don't have much more context than this:

But... I'm very happy.

Ruby seems like a great fit for Lambda and anything non-natively supported is often just not worth it.

Ruby's benefits—simple and readable syntax, great for scripting through small problems—strike me as just right for a serverless environment. Ruby isn't exactly natively great at the kinds of things we ask it to do as a server-side language powering Rails etc.

Anyway, as a Rubyist, this is lovely to me. I'd love to hear others' takes.

Comments

[Stefan Dorresteijn]

This is exciting. Can finally stop writing JS just for Lambda!

[Kyle Galbraith]

I know this has been one of the most requested languages for Lambda and it's big they crossed this milestone. But, more important in my eyes is their introduction of Custom Runtimes. Essentially giving you the ability to run Lambda in the language of your choice so long as you adhere to the specification. That is massive.

[Ben Halpern]

Absolutely!

This really takes Lambda “out of beta” in my eyes.

[K]

While I don't care too much about Ruby, it's cool that they used this Ruby implementation to build the foundation for other runtimes, like C++ and Rust

[Ben Halpern]

Yeah, totally.

[deleteme deleteme]

"Cloud Architecture is just a giant turd - tiny little shitty area - which is becoming super important, and in many ways is the future of computing."

Looks like I will have to learn me some Serverless.

[Daniel Schep]

I just released v1.34.1 of the serverless framework which now includes a ruby template making it super easy to get started! ⚡️💎

npm i -g serverless
sls create -t aws-ruby
sls deploy

[Levi ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ]

Awwwwww yissss. I have missed writing ruby and want to get back into it now that I’ve gone freelance.

[Muhammed H. Alkan]

Also, Rust is added.

[Erick Gonzales]

Lambda is killer! finally I can just drop JS to move something more TypeSafe.

[rhymes]

Haha you're on fire today 😂

Great news for all Rubysts!

[Esteban Hernández]

My preferred tool for web scrapping!