ronin
Ronin is a Free and Open Source Ruby Toolkit for Security Research and Development. Ronin also allows for the rapid development and distribution of code, exploits, payloads, etc, via 3rd party git repositories. (by ronin-rb)
arachni
Web Application Security Scanner Framework (by Arachni)
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| ronin | arachni | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 2 | |
| 624 | 3,645 | |
| 3.7% | 1.2% | |
| 7.7 | 1.5 | |
| 12 days ago | 11 months ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ronin
Posts with mentions or reviews of ronin.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
- Ronin: Free and Open Source Ruby Toolkit for Security Research and Development
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How to add a man page to your Ruby project, using kramdown-man and markdown
Example: https://github.com/ronin-rb/ronin/blob/2.1.0/man/ronin-bitflip.1.md
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Is Ruby a dying language?
No, it's just no longer over-hyped. Ruby is settling into being a mature production language, similar to Python, Java, .NET, C++, etc. As you can see from the RedMonk 2023 data Ruby is very much still alive with tons of repositories on GitHub. Besides Shopify, GitHub is another big Ruby/Rails shop. Also, besides Rails, there are other new and upcoming projects like Hanami, DragonRuby, and Ronin.
- Ronin: Free and Open Source Ruby toolkit for security research and development
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Ruby Hacking Guide
Not sure why this is posted today, but for the other kind of Ruby 'hacking' there's Ronin[1]
1: https://ronin-rb.dev/
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I watched a video of Mr. Robot programming a script. As I watch the script, the syntax is reminiscent of the Ruby language, and it really is.
You might also be interested in Ronin.
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Why are there so many Rails related posts here?
This is something that kind of annoys me; there's even a /r/rails sub-reddit specifically for Ruby on Rails stuff. Understandably Rails helped put Ruby on the map. Before Rails, Ruby was just another fringe language. Rails became massively popular, helped many startups quickly build their Web 2.0 sites, and become successful companies (ex: GitHub, LinkedIn, AirBnB, etc). Like others have said, "Rails is where the money is at". However, this posses a problem for the Ruby community: whenever Rails becomes less popular, so does Ruby. I wish the Ruby ecosystem wasn't so heavily centralized around Rails, and that we diversified our uses of Ruby a bit. There's of course Sinatra, dry-rb, Hanami, Dragon Ruby, SciRuby, and a dozen security tools written in Ruby such as Metasploit, BeFF, Arachni, and Ronin.
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Two months into learning Ruby, it is the most beautiful language I ever learned
Welcome! Ruby isn't exactly "dying", but the hype/popularity is definitely fading. This is primarily because Ruby is no longer "new", most of Ruby's popularity came from Rails, and now Rails is no longer the "new hotness". However, Ruby still has lots of awesome features and lots of awesome other libraries and frameworks, such as the new fancy irb gem that uses reline, nokogiri, chunky_png, the async gems, Dragon Ruby, SciRuby, Ronin, and the new Hanami web framework.
arachni
Posts with mentions or reviews of arachni.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-09.
- Self-Host Vulnerability Scanner
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Why are there so many Rails related posts here?
This is something that kind of annoys me; there's even a /r/rails sub-reddit specifically for Ruby on Rails stuff. Understandably Rails helped put Ruby on the map. Before Rails, Ruby was just another fringe language. Rails became massively popular, helped many startups quickly build their Web 2.0 sites, and become successful companies (ex: GitHub, LinkedIn, AirBnB, etc). Like others have said, "Rails is where the money is at". However, this posses a problem for the Ruby community: whenever Rails becomes less popular, so does Ruby. I wish the Ruby ecosystem wasn't so heavily centralized around Rails, and that we diversified our uses of Ruby a bit. There's of course Sinatra, dry-rb, Hanami, Dragon Ruby, SciRuby, and a dozen security tools written in Ruby such as Metasploit, BeFF, Arachni, and Ronin.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ronin and arachni you can also consider the following projects:
Metasploit - Metasploit Framework
distribution - Probability distributions for Ruby.
ronin-vulns - Tests URLs for Local File Inclusion (LFI), Remote File Inclusion (RFI), SQL injection (SQLi), and Cross Site Scripting (XSS), Server Side Template Injection (SSTI), and Open Redirects.
BeEF - The Browser Exploitation Framework Project
Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications
Clamby - ClamAV interface to your Ruby on Rails project.
Hanami - The web, with simplicity.
WhatWeb - Next generation web scanner