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Top 7 Ruby Kafka Projects

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  1. Karafka

    Ruby and Rails efficient multithreaded Kafka processing framework

    Project mention: Kafka at the Low End | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-21

    Do you mind explaining what you mean by not being able to find a "good Kafka client" for Ruby? There are pretty good bindings to librdkafka and frameworks like Karafka (https://github.com/karafka/karafka/) that provide many functionalities, including a Web UI.

  2. InfluxDB

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  3. ruby-kafka

    A Ruby client library for Apache Kafka

  4. racecar

    Racecar: a simple framework for Kafka consumers in Ruby

  5. rdkafka-ruby

    Modern and performant Kafka client library for Ruby based on librdkafka

  6. fluent-plugin-kafka

    Kafka input and output plugin for Fluentd

    Project mention: Configuring Fluentd to Collect Data from Azure Event Hub | dev.to | 2025-03-30

    This guide covers setting up Fluentd to fetch data from Azure Event Hub using Kafka Fluentd plugin.

  7. sbmt-kafka_producer

    Ruby gem for producing Kafka messages

  8. sbmt-kafka_consumer

    Ruby gem for consuming Kafka messages

  9. Stream

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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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  • Configuring Fluentd to Collect Data from Azure Event Hub

    2 projects | dev.to | 30 Mar 2025

  • Kafka at the Low End

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Feb 2025

  • Rdkafka: Modern Kafka client library for Ruby based on librdkafka

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 May 2024

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    4 projects | dev.to | 6 Feb 2023

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    4 projects | dev.to | 30 Jan 2023

  • ruby-kafka has been officially deprecated and is no longer recommended for production usage

    2 projects | /r/ruby | 8 Dec 2022

  • Installing node-rdkafka on M1 for use with SASL

    3 projects | dev.to | 14 Oct 2022
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Index

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

# Project Stars
1 Karafka 2,173
2 ruby-kafka 1,275
3 racecar 500
4 rdkafka-ruby 386
5 fluent-plugin-kafka 307
6 sbmt-kafka_producer 33
7 sbmt-kafka_consumer 30

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