After nearly two years it is finally time for the first full release of Anyolite! Anyolite ( https://github.com/Anyolite/anyolite ) is a Crystal shard that includes a Ruby interpreter (either mruby or regular Ruby) into Crystal and allows for binding Crystal classes and functions directly to Ruby. Y…

This is huge and opens a lot of possibilities, integrations and use-cases with Crystal and Ruby! Huge milestone!

Help please. I submitted two issues, one to having difficulty running the tests in a new clone of the repo · Issue #36 · Anyolite/anyolite · GitHub and one at anyolite 1,1,0 incompatibility? · Issue #1 · Anyolite/ScapoLite · GitHub . Thanks

Just a quick question (I haven’t checked your github yet) : Can it be done the other way around, we use Ruby libraries in Crystal?"

Yes, this should be possible! There are currently some limitations to this (you effectively have to embed the Ruby interpreter into your project and then install the gems), but other wise this should work perfectly fine.

Well done ! Huge job. Very useful !

I’m a newbie to Crystal so please forgive me if my questions have obvious answers: How do I retrieve the result of a script? e.g. I have a Crystal HTTP server that runs an Anyolite script and I want the script’s result as a JSON string to return to the client. The documentation says don’t crea…

You can’t get the result of a script file directly, but you can always call a script line using Anyolite.eval (see Anyolite - anyolite 1.1.0 ). This will return either a generic Ruby reference or ensure a specific type at compiletime (if you pass it to the cast_to keyword). Sadly this doesn’t seem t…

Anyolite 1.0.0

News

Hadeweka April 12, 2025, 9:27am 16

I did consider that, but it’s not really clear if the performance would be worth it and if it would work at all:

Topic		Replies	Views
Anyolite - Scripting with mruby in Crystal Community	2	960	September 7, 2021
Embeddable / Interoperable with ruby Crystal Contrib	55	5105	September 11, 2023
Will it be possible to embed the upcoming Crystal interpreter? Crystal Contrib	4	609	August 30, 2021
How to make crystal app scriptable? Help & Support	11	1860	August 28, 2021
CrystalRuby: Embed Crystal Code Directly in Ruby News	4	802	April 13, 2024

Anyolite 1.0.0

Related topics