Ruby Jruby

Open-source Ruby projects categorized as Jruby

Top 14 Ruby Jruby Projects

  1. JRuby

    JRuby, an implementation of Ruby on the JVM

    Project mention: Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-16

    Another way to look at it based on coming across it in enterprise:

    How did he build something adopted by so many enterprises?

    It does some things at scale very well and has been afforded the performance improvements of very smart people for 30y.

    Itโ€™s not to say the language isnโ€™t verbose, one of my favourite features was the ability to write code in other languages right inside the a Java app pretty well in-line by using the JVM, thanks to JSR-223.

    It was possible to write Ruby or Python code via Jruby or Jython and run it in the JVM.

    https://www.jython.org/

    https://www.jruby.org/

    https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/scrip...

  2. Stream

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  3. Shoes

    Shoes 4 : the next version of Shoes

  4. Glimmer

    DSL Framework consisting of a DSL Engine and a Data-Binding Library used in Glimmer DSL for SWT (JRuby Desktop Development GUI Framework), Glimmer DSL for Opal (Pure Ruby Web GUI), Glimmer DSL for LibUI (Prerequisite-Free Ruby Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for Tk (Ruby Tk Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for GTK (Ruby-GNOME Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for XML (& HTML), and Glimmer DSL for CSS

    Project mention: Glimmer: DSL Framework for Ruby GUI and More | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-10
  5. activerecord-jdbc-adapter

    JRuby's ActiveRecord adapter using JDBC.

    Project mention: Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-01

    https://github.com/jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter

  6. ArchivesSpace

    ArchivesSpace, the archives management tool

    Project mention: How do archivists package things? The battle of the boxes | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-21

    ArchivesSpace has a "space calculator" feature to help with this!

    https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace

  7. RSpec Tracer

    RSpec Tracer is a specs dependency analyzer, flaky tests detector, tests accelerator, and coverage reporter tool for RSpec. It maintains a list of files for each test, enabling itself to skip tests in the subsequent runs if none of the dependent files are changed. It uses Ruby's built-in coverage library to keep track of the coverage for each test.

  8. glimmer-dsl-swt

    Glimmer DSL for SWT (JRuby Desktop Development Cross-Platform Native GUI Framework) - The Quickest Way From Zero To GUI - If You Liked Shoes, You'll Love Glimmer!

  9. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB โ€“ Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  10. March Hare

    Idiomatic, fast and well-maintained JRuby client for RabbitMQ

  11. weka

    Machine Learning & Data Mining with JRuby

  12. Gladiator (Glimmer Editor)

    Gladiator (short for Glimmer Editor) is a Glimmer DSL for SWT sample project under on-going development that demonstrates how to build a text editor in Ruby using Glimmer DSL for SWT (JRuby Desktop Development GUI Library). It is not intended to be a full-fledged editor by any means, yet mostly a fun educational exercise in using Glimmer. Gladiator is also a personal tool for shaping an editor exactly the way I like, with all the keyboard shortcuts I prefer. I leave building truly professional t

  13. are-we-there-yet

    Are We There Yet? Small Project Tracking Desktop App for Windows and Mac. Built with Glimmer (Ruby Desktop Development GUI Library)

  14. YASL

    Yet Another Serialization Library - A pure Ruby auto-serialization library that works across different Ruby implementations like Opal and JRuby as an automatic alternative to YAML/Marshal. Unlike Marshal, it does not raise errors for unserializable objects, thus provides a highly productive friction-free auto-serialization experience. (by AndyObtiva)

  15. Joda

    JRuby + Roda == Joda ๐Ÿ––

  16. glimmer_metronome

    Glimmer Metronome supports different beat counts, click sounds, and tempos, including tap-based tempo calculation.

    Project mention: Glimmer: DSL Framework for Ruby GUI and More | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-10
  17. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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  • Calling Java from JRuby

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 May 2025
  • Glimmer: DSL Framework for Ruby GUI and More

    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2025
  • Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby

    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Sep 2024
  • Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple

    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2024
  • What would an ideal language for teaching new programmers be like?

    2 projects | /r/AskProgramming | 28 May 2023
  • JRuby 9.4.2.0 released with many fixes and improvements

    1 project | /r/ruby | 8 Mar 2023
  • Personal efforts to improve the quality of Ruby interpreter

    5 projects | dev.to | 27 Dec 2022
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Jruby projects in Ruby? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 JRuby 3,832
2 Shoes 1,608
3 Glimmer 779
4 activerecord-jdbc-adapter 469
5 ArchivesSpace 374
6 RSpec Tracer 153
7 glimmer-dsl-swt 121
8 March Hare 97
9 weka 64
10 Gladiator (Glimmer Editor) 35
11 are-we-there-yet 14
12 YASL 9
13 Joda 7
14 glimmer_metronome 2

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