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[schappim]

Do you use / know of any services like AWS Lambda that supports Ruby out of the box?

I've been playing with AWS Lambda using travelling Ruby and Mruby, but have hit issues (with native gems etc).

I have used Iron Worker previously, but they seem to be going up market and don't even display pricing on their site.

Thanks in advance for your input!

[33degrees → schappim]

There are a few libraries for using JRuby (like https://github.com/c9katayama/aws-lambda-jruby) But they may also have issues with native gems

[kaishiro → schappim]

I haven't used it it, but the new (like, really new) Iron Functions may be what you're looking for. I've only used the Workers/Cache so far, but they're dockerized so pretty much language agnostic.

I'm making an assumption that Functions is similar.

[ch4s3 → schappim]

I wonder if you could use opal?

[schappim → ch4s3]

yeah that was one of my very early thoughts...

[ch4s3 → schappim]

I'm not normally interested in Opal per se, but it would be great for this. I'd much rather write Ruby for simple call/response APIs than JS.

[emidln → schappim]

You can probably use JRuby without too much effort.

[empath75 → schappim]

My suggestion is to just use Python.