Ruby SDK developer guide

Install and get started

You can find detailed installation instructions for the Ruby SDK in the Quickstart.

There's also a short walkthrough of how to use the Temporal primitives (Activities, Workflows, and Workers) to build and run a Temporal application to get you up and running.

Once your local Temporal Service is set up, continue building with the following resources:

• Activity Basics
• Workflow Basics
• Start an Activity Execution
• Run Worker Processes

From there, you can dive deeper into any of the Temporal primitives to start building Workflows that fit your use cases.

Workflows

• Workflow Basics
• Child Workflows
• Continue-As-New
• Cancellation
• Timeouts
• Message Passing
• Enriching the UI
• Schedules
• Timers
• Dynamic Workflow
• Versioning

Activities

• Activity Basics
• Activity Execution
• Timeouts
• Asynchronous Activity Completion
• Dynamic Activity
• Benign exceptions

Workers

• Run Worker processes
• Observability

Temporal Client

• Temporal Client
• Namespaces

Integrations

• Rails integration

Best practices

• Error handling
• Testing
• Debugging
• Converters and encryption

Temporal Ruby Technical Resources

• Ruby SDK Quickstart - Setup Guide
• Ruby SDK Code Samples
• Ruby API Documentation
• Ruby SDK GitHub
• Temporal 101 in Ruby Free Course

Get Connected with the Temporal Ruby Community

• Temporal Ruby Community Slack
• Ruby SDK Forum