Goby

Installation

Confirmed Goby runs on Mac OS and Linux for now. Try Goby on Windows and let us know the result.

Via Homebrew (binary installation for Mac OS)

Note: Please check the latest release before installing Goby via Homebrew

brew tap goby-lang/goby
brew install goby

In the case, $GOBY_ROOT is automatically configured.

From Source

Try this if you'd like to contribute Goby! Skip 1 if you already have Golang in your environment.

  1. Prepare Golang environment
    • Install Golang >= 1.9
    • Make sure $GOPATH in your shell's config file( like .bashrc) is correct
    • Add you $GOPATH/bin to $PATH
  2. Run go get github.com/goby-lang/goby
  3. Set the Goby project's exact root path $GOBY_ROOT manually, which should be:
$GOPATH/src/github.com/goby-lang/goby

Installation on a Linux system

In order to install Go, Goby and PostgreSQL on a Linux system, see the wiki page.

Verifying Goby installation

  1. Run goby -v to see the version.
  2. Run goby -i to launch igb REPL.
  3. Type require "uri" in igb.

FYI: You can just run brew test goby to check Homebrew installation.

If you have any issue installing Goby, please let us know via Github issues

Using Docker

Goby has official docker image as well. You can try the Plugin System using docker.

Packaging Goby

Goby searches the standard library files (lib/**/*.gb, in the source tree) by default in the lib/ subdirectory, relative to the Goby binary (goby).

Language interpreter packages usually have entirely separate paths for the interpreter binary and the standard library files. When packaging Goby, it's possible to use the $GOBY_LIBPATH environment variable to specify the standard library files search path of the compiled binary.

For example:

GOBY_LIBPATH=/usr/lib/goby-0.1.9/lib make build

will compile a binary which will search standard library files in /usr/lib/goby-0.1.9/lib.

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