APIs for Scripting (2015.1)

As of version 2015.1, the recommended mechanism for installing P4Ruby is via gems.

Outside of Windows, the p4ruby gem installs must be compiled locally against your installation of Ruby. If you can build the core Ruby distribution locally, you likely can install P4Ruby without incident. On Windows, precompiled gems will be made available.

$ gem install p4ruby -- --with-p4api-dir=DIR

In the example above, the DIR is the path to a local copy of the Perforce C++ API distribution. The Perforce C++ API should match the major and minor version of P4Ruby. If you omit the --with-p4api-dir option, the gem attempts to download a version of the API itself from ftp.perforce.com.

More installation options are described in the P4Ruby project in the Perforce Workshop:

https://swarm.workshop.perforce.com/projects/perforce-software-p4ruby