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Sadly, 9 out of 10 environments lack a Ruby interpreter out of the box. Are you going to add 5 minutes to your docker build to compile Ruby? Probably not.

Luckily, I've found that Perl has most of the best features of Ruby, and it's installed everywhere. It's time to Make Perl Great Again.

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Why on earth would you add the compilation of a Ruby interpreter to your docker build? Just install it through the package manager of whatever distro your image is built on.

> Sadly, 9 out of 10 environments lack a Ruby interpreter out of the box.

Please name those 10 environments you are talking about. In my experience, a reasonably recent Ruby version is present almost everywhere.

> add 5 minutes to your docker build

Why on earth would it take 5 minutes to install anything? If you install Ruby through a package manager (it's present in pretty much all of them: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/installation/#pac...) it takes only seconds.

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