ruby/ruby
The Ruby Programming Language
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #190 among Backend repositories tracked this week, and #190 over the last 30 days; #965 of 3,103 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 31%).
4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 18 days ago, with 366 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements a dynamic, interpreted object-oriented programming language focused on simplicity and productivity.
- Offers a clean syntax with advanced object-oriented features and high portability across Unix-like and Windows platforms.
- Use for developing web applications with an expressive and readable codebase.
- Use for scripting tasks such as text processing, file manipulation, and system automation.
- Use for learning and experimenting with object-oriented programming concepts in a flexible language environment.
Should you depend on it?
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License
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- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
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From the README
Ruby is an interpreted object-oriented programming language often used for web development. It also offers many scripting features to process plain text and serialized files, or manage system tasks. It is simple, straightforward, and extensible.
For a complete list of ways to install Ruby, including using third-party tools like rvm, see:
You can download release packages and the snapshot of the repository. If you want to download whole versions of Ruby, please visit https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/releases/.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
5.7K+43
Open issues
743+103
Compared with peers in Backend
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 18, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anthropics/claude-plugins-official | 44.1K | +4.3K | 35 | — |
| NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra | 93.7K | +4.2K | 75 | 1 day ago |
| akitaonrails/ai-memory | 13.0K | +3.4K | 60 | 1 day ago |
| K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills | 54.2K | +3.1K | 75 | 22 days ago |
| shiyu-coder/Kronos | 43.5K | +2.7K | 75 | — |
| ruby/ruby | 23.8K | +0 | 75 | 18 days ago |
| Category median | 44.1K | +3.4K | 75 | — |
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