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Ruby Now Supported Natively on AWS Lambda

Ben Halpern on November 29, 2018

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Stefan Dorresteijn

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

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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.

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Ben Halpern

Absolutely!

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

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K • Edited

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

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Ben Halpern

Yeah, totally.

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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
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Levi ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

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

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Muhammed H. Alkan

Also, Rust is added.

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Erick Gonzales

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

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rhymes

Haha you're on fire today 😂

Great news for all Rubysts!

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Esteban Hernández

My preferred tool for web scrapping!