The mcp gem 1.1.0 (2026-08-01) is the first to negotiate 2026-07-28, so the
Ruby examples can finally show the same thing the other four do: get_alerts
declares an array-rooted output_schema and returns a bare top-level JSON
array, get_forecast returns an object. Declaring `type:` at the root is what
suppresses the SDK object-root default.
Failure paths return an error result rather than a bare text one, because a
tool declaring an output_schema MUST return conforming structured content.
No alerts is an empty array, not an error.
The client compiles each declared schema at connect time and validates every
non-error result. The SDK client does not do this itself, so the spec
client-side SHOULD costs real code here, as it does in Go and Rust.
NOT READY TO SHIP. The gem never emits the `resultType` field that the
2026-07-28 schema marks mandatory, and no user-level knob sets it, so a
spec-strict client rejects every response including tools/list. Verified
end-to-end against the Ruby client, which does not check the field; blocked
against the TypeScript SDK client. See the server README.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
## Motivation and Context
Follow-up to https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/ruby-sdk/pull/336
mcp gem 0.15.0 introduced an explicit `MCP::Client#connect` method for the stdio transport,
aligning with the Python and TypeScript SDKs which require explicit handshake calls regardless
of transport type:
- Python SDK: `ClientSession.initialize()`
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk
- TypeScript SDK: `Client.connect(transport)`
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk
This sample is updated to call `@mcp_client.connect` explicitly after creating the client,
demonstrating the recommended initialization pattern. The Gemfile constraint is bumped to `>= 0.15.0`
to require the new API.
## How Has This Been Tested?
Ran the sample against `weather-server-ruby` and confirmed the connection, tool listing,
and chat loop continue to work as expected.
## Breaking Changes
None. The change updates the sample to use the new explicit `connect` API,
which was added as a non-breaking addition in mcp gem 0.15.0.
