diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 229c2eaefea..37484ad742a 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -74,3 +74,7 @@ javascript/ql/experimental/adaptivethreatmodeling/test/endpoint_large_scale/auto
 
 # Auto-generated modeling for Python
 python/ql/lib/semmle/python/frameworks/data/internal/subclass-capture/*.yml linguist-generated=true
+
+# auto-generated bazel lock file
+ruby/extractor/cargo-bazel-lock.json linguist-generated=true
+ruby/extractor/cargo-bazel-lock.json -merge
diff --git a/ruby/BUILD.bazel b/ruby/BUILD.bazel
index 64bba5f0efc..28cb046e3a6 100644
--- a/ruby/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/ruby/BUILD.bazel
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-load("@//:dist.bzl", "dist", "pack_zip")
-load("@ql//:defs.bzl", "codeql_platform")
 load("@rules_pkg//pkg:mappings.bzl", "pkg_filegroup", "pkg_files")
+load("@semmle_code//:dist.bzl", "dist", "pack_zip")
+load("//:defs.bzl", "codeql_platform")
 
 package(default_visibility = ["//visibility:public"])
 
diff --git a/ruby/extractor/BUILD.bazel b/ruby/extractor/BUILD.bazel
index 254424fc455..e859884085d 100644
--- a/ruby/extractor/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/ruby/extractor/BUILD.bazel
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-load("@//:common.bzl", "codeql_rust_binary")
 load("@ruby_deps//:defs.bzl", "aliases", "all_crate_deps")
+load("@semmle_code//:common.bzl", "codeql_rust_binary")
 
 codeql_rust_binary(
     name = "extractor",
diff --git a/ruby/extractor/Cargo.toml b/ruby/extractor/Cargo.toml
index c807de4b869..8bb8cd96dce 100644
--- a/ruby/extractor/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ruby/extractor/Cargo.toml
@@ -5,11 +5,12 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 authors = ["GitHub"]
 edition = "2018"
 
-# When changing/updating these, the `Cargo.Bazel.lock` file has to be regenerated.
-# Check out the documentation at https://bazelbuild.github.io/rules_rust/crate_universe.html#repinning--updating-dependencies
-# for how to do so. The bazel repository for the ruby extractor is called `ruby_extractor_crate_index`,
-# and instead of calling `bazel sync`, `./build --bazel sync` should be used instead, to always use the correct bazel version.
-# In the future, the hope is to move this handling of the dependencies entirely into the `codeql` submodule,
+# When changing/updating these, the `cargo-bazel-lock.json` file has to be regenerated.
+# Run `CARGO_BAZEL_REPIN=true CARGO_BAZEL_REPIN_ONLY=ruby_deps ./build --bazel sync --only=ruby_deps`
+# in the `semmle-code` repository to do so.
+# For more information, check out the documentation at
+# https://bazelbuild.github.io/rules_rust/crate_universe.html#repinning--updating-dependencies
+# In the future, the hope is to move this handling of the dependencies entirely into the `codeql` repository,
 # but that depends on `rules_rust` being fully compatible with bzlmod, which they aren't yet
 # (c.f. https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust/issues/2452).
 # Warning: The process takes >5min on my M1 mac, so do wait for a while.
diff --git a/ruby/extractor/Cargo.Bazel.lock b/ruby/extractor/cargo-bazel-lock.json
similarity index 99%
rename from ruby/extractor/Cargo.Bazel.lock
rename to ruby/extractor/cargo-bazel-lock.json
index a2215f91967..4c32c4e0e09 100644
--- a/ruby/extractor/Cargo.Bazel.lock
+++ b/ruby/extractor/cargo-bazel-lock.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "checksum": "967967dffe2fa38c30836aad92aad831f6eaab77aac76c0710d807bc80a9b2f6",
+  "checksum": "d560c06cf4f13182656a5daa708e6278b403dfc9075fc8539b046c3cf823e3a1",
   "crates": {
     "adler 1.0.2": {
       "name": "adler",
diff --git a/ruby/tools/BUILD.bazel b/ruby/tools/BUILD.bazel
index 76f86578880..4ec50830a43 100644
--- a/ruby/tools/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/ruby/tools/BUILD.bazel
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-load("@//:dist.bzl", "pack_zip")
+load("@semmle_code//:dist.bzl", "pack_zip")
 
 pack_zip(
     name = "tools",