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Ruby SDK

The Ruby SDK (secretspec) is a thin client over the secretspec-ffi C ABI, linked into a native C extension at build time. Resolution happens in the Rust core, so the SDK inherits every provider with no Ruby-side logic.

require "secretspec"
resolved = Secretspec::SecretSpec.builder
.with_provider("keyring://")
.with_profile("production")
.with_reason("boot web app")
.load
puts resolved.provider, resolved.profile
db = resolved.secrets["DATABASE_URL"]
puts db.get # the value, or the file path for as_path secrets
resolved.set_as_env! # export everything into ENV

A missing required secret raises Secretspec::MissingRequiredError; any other failure raises Secretspec::Error (with a stable #kind).

Use .with_scope("api") to resolve only a named [scopes.api] subset. The selected name is available as resolved.scope and report.scope:

resolved = Secretspec::SecretSpec.builder.with_scope("api").load

Generate typed classes with secretspec schema plus quicktype, then build them from resolved.fields:

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secretspec schema | quicktype -s schema --top-level SecretSpec --lang ruby -o secrets_gen.rb
typed = SecretSpec.from_dynamic!(resolved.fields) # typed, generated
puts typed.database_url

The published platform gems bundle the secretspec-ffi archive and statically link it into the mkmf extension at install time.

To build against your own secretspec-ffi install instead, install it with cargo-c and pass --enable-pkg-config:

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cargo cinstall -p secretspec-ffi --library-type staticlib --prefix "$PREFIX"
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig" gem install secretspec -- --enable-pkg-config

Drop --library-type staticlib from the install and the extension links the shared library instead.