Minimal Ruby and NodeJS built on top of Alpine Linux Docker Image (Approx. 50MB)

Self explanatory, ruby build on top of nodejs and alpine image

This will be a great base image for people working with rails applications. You could get away from using therubyracer gem by using a pre-built nodejs for the javascript V8 engine.

Hope this will help others in the future.

Tags and Versions

• 2.2.3
• 2.2.4
• 2.2.5, 2.2
• 2.3.0
• 2.3.1, 2.3, latest

Gem dependencies

When you install gems, there are gems with specific native dependencies.

You have to add the respective alpine package before installing the respective gems.

apk --update add ${packages}

The few known dependencies are:

• ffi: libffi-dev
• nokogiri: libxml2 libxslt libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
• rmagick: imagemagick imagemagick-dev
• raindrops: linux-headers
• pg: postgresql-client postgresql-dev

p.s.: there are also a few native compilation dependencies that you have to keep in mind.

• g++
• make

Supported Docker versions

This image is officially supported on Docker version 1.11.2.

Support for older versions (down to 1.6) is provided on a best-effort basis.

Contributing

You are invited to contribute new features, fixes, or updates, large or small.

I am always thrilled to receive pull requests, and do my best to process them as fast as I can.