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ir.sh: put RubyGems' bindir on RUBYPATH, so ir -S <gem executable> finds its binstub - #18

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RubyGems writes a gem's binstubs to Gem.bindir, which for IronRuby is the directory ir itself is in (RbConfig's bindir, Src/Console/bin/<config>/<tfm>; igem env reports it as EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY). ir.sh only put Src/StdLib/bin - the executables the bundled library ships - on RUBYPATH, so after ./igem.sh install doom, ./ir.sh -S doom never saw the binstub RubyGems had just written for it.

It took the first doom on PATH instead. On a machine with a version manager (mise, rbenv, asdf) that is a native shim, which ir then tried to run as a Ruby script:

/Users/me/.local/share/mise/shims/doom:1: invalid multibyte character 0xCF (SyntaxError)

With this change the directory of ir comes after Src/StdLib/bin and before PATH, so a binstub installed for IronRuby wins over a host Ruby's command of the same name - the rule the irb entry already follows - and an existing RUBYPATH still wins for anything not here. -S resolution itself (RubyOptionsParser.FindMainFileFromPath, RUBYPATH then PATH) is unchanged.

Tested on arm64 macOS, .NET 10: ./igem.sh install doom && ./ir.sh -S doom --bench runs the gem's own binstub.

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  • New Features
    • The -S command can now find executables installed through RubyGems for the selected IronRuby installation. These are searched after IronRuby’s standard library tools and before configured Ruby paths and the system PATH. This makes gem-installed commands available through IronRuby’s command lookup.

…finds its binstub

RubyGems writes a gem's binstubs to Gem.bindir, which for IronRuby is the
directory ir itself is in (RbConfig's bindir, Src/Console/bin/<config>/<tfm>).
ir.sh only put Src/StdLib/bin - the executables the bundled library ships -
on RUBYPATH, so `./ir.sh -S doom` after `./igem.sh install doom` never saw
the binstub RubyGems had just written for it.  It took the first `doom` on
PATH instead; on a machine with a version manager that is a native shim,
which ir then tried to run as a Ruby script ("invalid multibyte character
0xCF (SyntaxError)").

The directory of ir comes after Src/StdLib/bin and before PATH, so a
binstub installed for IronRuby wins over a host Ruby's command of the same
name - the rule the irb entry already follows - and an existing RUBYPATH
still wins for anything not here.
Largo added a commit to khasinski/ironruby that referenced this pull request Oct 13, 2026
CI builds libprism from prism's main branch, and since ruby/prism#4255
(attach_comments, merged 2026-10-12) every build job has failed in the
smoke test with "Unknown prism node type: 0 (TypeError)" - master, Largo#17,
Largo#18 and Largo#19 alike. That change altered prism's serialization in two
places without moving the serialization version off 1.9, so the version
check in PrismLoader could not catch it:

- the options blob has a new attach_comments byte after freeze. The blob
  IronRuby wrote was one byte short, so prism read the scope count from
  the wrong offset;
- the serialized header has a comment-attachment list after the comments
  (node id, count, comment indices). PrismLoader read its count as the
  magic comment count and walked off from there.

PrismParser.BuildOptionsData writes the byte (0: IronRuby never asks for
attachments) and PrismLoader.Load skips the list. PrismLex only reads the
token stream, which ends before the header, so it needs nothing.

The rest of the revision comes along so that every piece names the same
prism commit, as Src/Prism/README.md asks:

- Src/Prism/Generated is regenerated from cd76b0d1's config.yml:
  SymbolNode#value_loc became the non-optional content_loc (the bridge
  reads neither), and a WORDS_SEP_IMPLICIT token was added after
  WORDS_SEP. Ripper looks tokens up by name and skips the ones it has no
  event for, which is what prism's own lex_compat does with this one.
- Src/StdLib/ruby/4.0/prism is prism's lib/ at cd76b0d1, generated files
  included; prism.rb keeps IronRuby's backend branch.
  parse_result/comments.rb is gone upstream - attaching comments moved
  into libprism.
- Src/StdLib/ironruby/prism/ironruby.rb follows ffi.rb: attach_comments
  is a known option and is dumped after freeze, and the *_file APIs take
  a Pathname (to_path / to_str) the way PrismSource.with_file now does.
- release.yml's PRISM_REF and the README build instructions move to
  cd76b0d1.
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ir.sh now adds the directory containing the selected IronRuby executable to RUBYPATH. That directory follows Src/StdLib/bin and precedes existing RUBYPATH entries.

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Update -S search path
ir.sh
RUBYPATH now includes the selected executable's directory after Src/StdLib/bin and before existing entries. Comments describe the search order.

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Users with a custom RUBYPATH may find that ir -S selects the IronRuby bindir executable instead of the one from their own entries. This is a small, bounded behavior difference. Moving the new directory after the existing entries would match the stated intent.

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The change prefers gem commands installed beside the selected IronRuby executable over existing search-path entries. Its scope is limited, and no concrete security regression was identified. Execution still depends on trusting the installed gems and the executable directory.

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  • inferred — The directly supported exposure is command selection within launcher-started IronRuby processes and the supplied Bundler consumer. Exporting RUBYPATH also makes the amended value available to descendants. The supplied relationship evidence does not establish a wider service, tenant or environment scope.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A party able to place a matching script in the selected interpreter directory can now influence named -S lookup without that directory already being on RUBYPATH or PATH. This is the intended new reachability, not a verified vulnerability: no lower-trust writer or higher-privilege caller was established. The same directory already supplies the interpreter selected for execution.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The existing -S lookup accepts an existing file without an ownership or provenance check; that behavior predates this PR. Bundler's compatibility helper rejects empty or slash-qualified command names, skips empty search entries and preserves bundle-bin priority. Those controls are unchanged, although they now consume the expanded path.
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- Line 68: Update the RUBYPATH assignment so existing RUBYPATH entries remain
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"An existing RUBYPATH still wins for anything not here" read as if the
caller's RUBYPATH came first.  It comes after Src/StdLib/bin and RubyGems'
bindir - IronRuby's own commands first, the order Src/StdLib/bin has always
had and ir.cmd uses - and ahead of PATH.
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