ruby/README.md

gRPC in 3 minutes (Ruby)
========================

BACKGROUND
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For this sample, we've already generated the server and client stubs from [helloworld.proto](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-common/blob/master/protos/helloworld.proto). 

PREREQUISITES
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This requires Ruby 2.1, as the gRPC API surface uses keyword args.

If you don't have that installed locally, you can use [RVM](https://www.rvm.io/) to use Ruby 2.1 for testing without upgrading the version of Ruby on your whole system.
```sh
$ command curl -sSL https://rvm.io/mpapis.asc | gpg --import -
$ \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby=ruby-2.1
$
$ # follow the instructions to ensure that your're using the latest stable version of Ruby
$ # and that the rvm command is installed
```
- Make sure your run `source $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm` as instructed to complete the set up of RVM

INSTALL
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- Clone this repository.
- Follow the instructions in [INSTALL](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/INSTALL) to install the gRPC C core.
- *Temporary* 
  - Install the full gRPC distribution from source on your local machine
  - Build gRPC Ruby as described in [installing from source](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/src/ruby/README.md#installing-from-source)
  - update path: in [Gemfile](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-common/blob/master/ruby/Gemfile) to refer to src/ruby within the gRPC directory
  - N.B: this is necessary until the gRPC ruby gem is published
- Use bundler to install
```sh
$ # from this directory
$ gem install bundler && bundle install
```

Try it! 
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- Run the server
```sh
$ # from this directory
$ bundle exec ./greeter_server.rb &
```

- Run the client
```sh
$ # from this directory
$ bundle exec ./greeter_client.rb
```