This is a list of the 30 most downloaded Ruby projects (according to RubyForge).
| Rank | Project | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | One-Click Ruby InstallerA self-contained installer that includes the Ruby language, dozens of popular extensions, a syntax-highlighting editor and the book "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide". Platforms: Windows NT/2000/XP. |
3,388,112 |
| 2 | RubyGemsRubyGems is the Ruby standard for publishing and managing third party libraries. |
1,849,808 |
| 3 | RailsRails is a web-application framework for the MVC pattern that includes both a template engine, controller framework, and object-relational mapping package. Everything needed to develop web-apps that can run on CGI, FastCGI, and mod_ruby. |
1,126,324 |
| 4 | RubotFeature-rich framework for easy development of MediaWiki bots. Contains a stand-alone base library, utilities for common tasks and adapters for advanced bots (monitoring, analysing, etc). Is able to use MediaWiki's build-in API but can even run without! |
784,969 |
| 5 | Instant RailsInstant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all pre-configured and ready to run. No installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not modify your system environment. |
775,600 |
| 6 | FLVTool2FLVTool2 is a manipulation tool for Macromedia Flash Video files (FLV). It can calculate a lot of meta data, insert an onMetaData tag, cut FLV files, add cue points (onCuePoint), show the FLV structure and print meta data information in XML or YAML. |
279,775 |
| 7 | PHPRPC for RubyPHPRPC is a Perfect High Performance Remote Procedure Calling that works over the Internet. It's secure and fast. It has a smaller overhead. It's powerful and easy to use. This project is implements of PHPRPC client and server for Ruby.http://phprpc.org |
234,707 |
| 8 | RMagickAn interface to the ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick image processing libraries. Supports over 100 image formats, including GIF, JPEG, PNG. See rmagick.rubyforge.org for prereqs, install FAQ, more. |
224,465 |
| 9 | Net::SSHNet::SSH is to SSH as Net::Telnet is to Telnet and Net::HTTP is to HTTP. Perform non-interactive SSH processing, purely from Ruby! |
151,580 |
| 10 | RakeRake is a Ruby make-like utility using standard Ruby syntax for the build specification file. |
143,289 |
| 11 | RubyMain Ruby language project for providing a mirror of the Ruby releases, tracking bugs, etc. |
135,954 |
| 12 | ActiveRecordImplements the ActiveRecord pattern (Fowler, PoEAA) for ORM. It ties database tables and classes together for business objects, like Customer or Subscription, that can find, save, and destroy themselves without resorting to manual SQL. |
132,606 |
| 13 | SQLite-RubyA Ruby interface for the SQLite database engine. |
126,631 |
| 14 | Active SupportUtility classes and extension to the standard library that were required by Rails, but found of general use. |
124,618 |
| 15 | Win32 UtilsThe Win32Utils project is a series of libraries that provide Ruby interfaces to various Windows systems and services. This project only supports Windows 2000 and later. |
123,945 |
| 16 | RedmineRedmine is a flexible project management web application: issues tracking, news, documents and files management. Issue tracking is now hosted at www.redmine.org |
123,804 |
| 17 | InstikiA wiki clone pretty and easy to set up. Runs on Rails and focuses on portability and stability. Supports file uploads, PDF export, RSS, multiple users and password protection. Some use Instiki as a CMS because of it’s ability to export static pages. |
118,983 |
| 18 | Action PackEases web-request routing, handling, and response as a half-way front, half-way page controller. Implemented with specific emphasis on enabling easy unit/integration testing that doesn't require a browser. |
118,170 |
| 19 | Seattle.rb ProjectsSeattle.rb's treasure-trove! hoe, ruby2ruby, image_science, rails_analyzer_tools, flay, flog, and many many others. |
108,127 |
| 20 | WatirWatir is a testing tool for automating browser-based tests of web applications. It is a Ruby library that works with Internet Explorer and Firefox. |
105,561 |
| 21 | Ruby/DBIRuby/DBI develops a database independent interface for accessing databases - similar to Perl's DBI. |
100,730 |
| 22 | NitroNitro is an efficient, yet simple engine for developing professional Web Applications using the Ruby language. |
100,277 |
| 23 | Action MailerSimplifies the creation of mail service classes that uses Action View (from Action Pack) to render the body templates. |
98,866 |
| 24 | codeforpeopledozens of ruby libraries released by codeforpeople.com |
94,342 |
| 25 | FreeRIDEThe FreeRIDE project is a pure Ruby Integrated Development Environment. |
93,024 |
| 26 | typoTypo is a lean weblogging engine powered by rails. It supports XMLRPC posting, ping/trackback, comments, textile, markdown, categories, all common exports, fulltext search and so on. |
86,618 |
| 27 | MongrelA small fast HTTP server for Ruby and JRuby that can be used to host web frameworks directly with HTTP. Please report tickets on the Mongrel website: http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ . |
78,763 |
| 28 | ruby-oci8ruby-oci8 is a ruby interface for Oracle using OCI8 API. It is available with Oracle8, Oracle8i, Oracle9i, Oracle10g and Oracle Instant Client. Use oracle module by yoshidam in RAA for Oracle7. |
73,086 |
| 29 | Action Web ServiceSimple support for publishing Web Service APIs for Rails applications. Supports SOAP and XML-RPC, as well as generating WSDL for SOAP bindings. |
71,510 |
| 30 | RDERDE is a Ruby IDE and editor on Windows. You can edit, run and debug scirpts on it. RDE is more light and quick than heavy other IDEs. |
70,666 |
View the full list of the top 100 downloads at RubyForge…