[ci-skip]Document how to run an individual bootstrap test

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diff --git a/doc/contributing/testing_ruby.md b/doc/contributing/testing_ruby.md
index dd46ba5dbc..ecdb152926 100644
--- a/doc/contributing/testing_ruby.md
+++ b/doc/contributing/testing_ruby.md
@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@ We can run any of the make scripts [in parallel](building_ruby.md#label-Running+
     make btest OPTS=-v
     ```
 
+    To run an individual bootstrap test, we can set the filename in the environment variable `BTESTS`:
+
+    ```
+    make btest BTESTS=bootstraptest/test_gc.rb
+    ```
+
     If we want to run the bootstrap test suite on Ruby (not Miniruby), we can use:
 
     ```