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, (OS X in development). |
1,322,138 |
| 2 | RubyGemsRubyGems is the Ruby standard for publishing and managing third party libraries. |
656,227 |
| 3 | Instant RailsInstant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured 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. |
248,676 |
| 4 | 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. |
212,899 |
| 5 | RubyMain Ruby language project for providing a mirror of the Ruby releases, tracking bugs, etc. |
94,037 |
| 6 | 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. |
72,219 |
| 7 | RMagickAn interface to the ImageMagick (www.imagemagick.org) and GraphicsMagick (www.graphicsmagick.org) image processing libraries. Supports more than 90 image formats, including GIF, JPEG, PNG. Includes RVG, a 2D drawing API. Comprehensive HTML documentation. |
66,665 |
| 8 | WatirWatir is a testing tool for automating browser-based tests of web applications. It is a Ruby library that works with Internet Explorer on Windows. |
58,004 |
| 9 | Win32 UtilsA series of packages that provide Ruby interfaces to Win32 systems and services. This project supports the Windows NT family of operating systems *only*. |
57,726 |
| 10 | NitroNitro is an efficient, yet simple engine for developing professional Web Applications using the Ruby language. |
51,503 |
| 11 | 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. |
50,906 |
| 12 | FreeRIDEThe FreeRIDE project is a pure Ruby Integrated Development Environment. |
49,433 |
| 13 | 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. |
48,753 |
| 14 | 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. |
48,323 |
| 15 | RakeRake is a Ruby make-like utility using standard Ruby syntax for the build specification file. |
48,087 |
| 16 | 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. |
46,193 |
| 17 | Ruby/DBIRuby/DBI develops a database independent interface for accessing databases - similar to Perl's DBI. |
44,827 |
| 18 | SQLite-RubyA Ruby interface for the SQLite database engine. |
40,968 |
| 19 | Action MailerSimplifies the creation of mail service classes that uses Action View (from Action Pack) to render the body templates. |
38,369 |
| 20 | FXRubyFXRuby is an extension module for Ruby that provides an interface to the FOX GUI toolkit. |
37,509 |
| 21 | Active SupportUtility classes and extension to the standard library that were required by Rails, but found of general use. |
33,196 |
| 22 | 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. |
30,486 |
| 23 | wxRubywxRuby is a cross-platform GUI toolkit with a comprehensive widget set and native look and feel. It's based on the mature wxWidgets framework. The wxruby2-preview releases offer the most complete, correct and up-to-date port of the library. |
24,201 |
| 24 | Ruby For Apache - WindowsNOTICE: THIS PROJECT IS DISCONTINUED. PLEASE USE 'INSTANTRAILS' INSTEAD. A self-contained installer that includes mod_fastcgi and mod_ruby for Apache 2.0 and corresponding Ruby extensions for Windows platform. |
23,401 |
| 25 | MongrelA small fast HTTP server written in (mostly) Ruby that can be used to host web frameworks directly with HTTP rather than FastCGI or SCGI. |
23,237 |
| 26 | RWD ApplicationsRuby scripts that can be used with the RubyWebDialogs GUI interface. These tools and applications are useful for simple tasks. |
22,881 |
| 27 | 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. |
20,279 |
| 28 | libxmllibxml bindings for Ruby. |
19,663 |
| 29 | Ruby PDF ToolsTools written in pure Ruby (no C extensions) for working with PDF documents. |
19,340 |
| 30 | 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! |
16,698 |
View the full list of the top 100 downloads at RubyForge…