Problem

The design, and usage, of remote plugins can be simplified, as described in neovim/neovim#27949

tl;dr:

• remove the concept of "remote plugins"
• instead, any Ruby module that imports the neovim-ruby client can call register_handler to handle requests from Nvim
• "remote plugins" become plain old Lua plugins which call RPC methods on the Go module

Solution

• Apply the above proposal to neovim-ruby client.
  • "Encapsulate the stdio related code in a helper function." Neovim.start_remote()
  • Update docs Add basic remote module support #107
• Deprecate the old rplugin interface.
• Update handling of g:ruby_host_prog, so it can point to ruby
  • Transitional phase: neovim-ruby-host will continue to be accepted; the path to ruby will be derived by inspecting the shebang in neovim-ruby-host.
• (Nvim 0.12) Remove old rplugin-related code

Related

• simplify remote plugins pynvim#567
• simplify remote plugins go-client#167