diff --git a/.cargo/config.toml b/.cargo/config.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index f3e9974..0000000
--- a/.cargo/config.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-[build]
-# Without this flag, when linking static libruby, the linker removes symbols
-# (such as `_rb_ext_ractor_safe`) which it thinks are dead code... but they are
-# not, and they need to be included for the `embed` feature to work with static
-# Ruby.
-rustflags = ["-C", "link-dead-code=on", "-C", "link-arg=-lz"]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8c7712c..56e7372 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ categories = ["game-development"]
 description = "Plugin for Bevy engine that allows you to write some of your game logic in a scripting language"
 repository = "https://github.com/jarkonik/bevy_scriptum"
 keywords = ["bevy", "rhai", "scripting", "game", "gamedev"]
+links = "lz" # TODO: conditional, probably will need a crate for ruby
 
 [features]
 lua = ["dep:mlua", "mlua/luajit"]
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ mlua = { version = "0.9.8", features = [
 ], optional = true }
 magnus = { version = "0.7.1", optional = true }
 rb-sys = { version = "*", default-features = false, features = ["link-ruby", "ruby-static"], optional = true }
+libz-sys = { version = "1.1", default-features = false, features = ["static"] }
 crossbeam-channel = "0.5.15"
 
 [[example]]
diff --git a/build.rs b/build.rs
index c2bbcc5..989fef5 100644
--- a/build.rs
+++ b/build.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
-use std::{env, path::PathBuf, process::Command};
-
 fn main() {
-    println!("cargo:rustc-link-arg=-rdynamic");
-    println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=z"); // TODO: if features Ruby
+    #[cfg(feature = "ruby")]
+    {
+        println!("cargo:rustc-link-arg=-rdynamic");
+        println!("cargo:rustc-link-arg=-lz");
+        println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=z");
+    }
 }
diff --git a/tests/tests.rs b/tests/tests.rs
index 53b1416..411c4a6 100644
--- a/tests/tests.rs
+++ b/tests/tests.rs
@@ -676,5 +676,17 @@ mod ruby_tests {
         }
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_symbol_inspection() {
+        let mut app = build_test_app();
+
+        app.add_scripting::<RubyRuntime>(|_| {});
+        let runtime = app.world().get_resource::<RubyRuntime>().unwrap();
+        runtime.with_engine_thread(|engine| {
+            let symbol_string: String = engine.eval(":test_symbol.inspect").unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(symbol_string, ":test_symbol")
+        });
+    }
+
     scripting_tests!(RubyRuntime, "ruby", "rb", BevyEntity, BevyVec3);
 }