Syncing and Locking

Rye supports two systems to manage dependencies: uv and pip-tools. It currently defaults to uv as it offers significantly better performance, but will offer you the option to use pip-tools instead.

In order to download dependencies rye creates two "lockfiles" (called requirements.lock and requirements-dev.lock). These are not real lockfiles but they fulfill a similar purpose until a better solution has been implemented.

Whenever rye sync is called, it will update lockfiles as well as the virtualenv. If you only want to update the lockfiles, then rye lock can be used.

Lock

When locking, some options can be provided to change the locking behavior. These flags are also all available on rye sync.

--update / --update-all

Updates a specific or all requirements to the latest and greatest version. Without this flag a dependency will only be updated if necessary.

rye lock --update-all

--features / --all-features

Python packages can have extra dependencies. By default the local package that is installed will only be installed with the default features. If for instance you have an extra dependency this will only be installed if the feature is enabled.

rye add --optional=web flask
rye lock --features=web

When working with workspaces, the package name needs to be prefixed with a slash:

rye lock --features=package-name/feature-name

The --features parameter can be passed multiple times and features can also be comma separated. To turn on all features, the --all-features parameter can be used.

rye lock --all-features

--pre

By default updates and version resolution will not consider pre-releases of packages. If you do want to include those, pass --pre

rye lock Flask --pre

--with-sources

new in 0.18.0

By default (unless the tool.rye.lock-with-sources config key is set to true in the pyproject.toml) lock files are not generated with source references. This means that if custom sources are used the lock file cannot be installed via pip unless also --find-links and other parameters are manually passed. This can be particularly useful when the lock file is used for docker image builds.

When this flag is passed then the lock file is generated with references to --index-url, --extra-index-url or --find-links.

rye lock --with-sources

Sync

Syncing takes the same parameters as lock and then some. Sync will usually first do what lock does and then use the lockfiles to update the virtualenv.

--no-lock

To prevent the lock step from automatically running, pass --no-lock.

rye sync --no-lock

--no-dev

Only sync based on the production lockfile (requirements.lock) instead of the development lockfile (requirements-dev.lock).

rye sync --no-dev

Limitations

Lockfiles depend on the platform they were generated on. This is a known limitation in pip-tools.

For example, if your project relies on platform-specific packages and you generate lockfiles on Windows, these lockfiles will include Windows-specific projects. Consequently, they won't be compatible with other platforms like Linux or macOS.