Top 10 Ruby Package Management Projects

Homebrew-cask

54 20,539 10.0 Ruby

🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries

Project mention: Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-18

Using Homebrew Cask for Calibre actually makes the problem worse because the download is consistently very slow for some people. For me, it took around an hour the last time I had it installed on my Mac.
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/issues/104814

CocoaPods

54 14,422 8.3 Ruby

The Cocoa Dependency Manager.

Project mention: Show HN: Privacy Manifest CLI tool for iOS apps | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-17

Very nice! love that it is all in swift, will give a closer look later but looks beautiful.
Recently went through this with a react native app with a ton of old dependencies and it was fairly painful. Wrote a couple not quite as beautiful scripts to help so I wish I had this before.
Tangential rant: I am all for privacy but find it really obnoxious that the most profitable company in the world is giving open source contributors to their ecosystem work on a deadline. Case in point: https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/10325

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
fpm

38 11,035 2.5 Ruby

Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.

Project mention: Debian Discusses Vendoring yet Again | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-06

If you ever revisit that decision, check out FPM. It can shave off a few of the rough edges related to packaging: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

RubyGems

25 2,297 9.8 Ruby

The Ruby community's gem hosting service.

Project mention: Phlex is the ruby way to build your views | dev.to | 2023-06-08

However, let's examine a typical partial, such as the one from the . rubygems.org search show page

Gem in a Box

0 1,478 3.7 Ruby

Really simple rubygem hosting
Berkshelf

0 1,073 0.0 Ruby

A Chef Cookbook manager
gemstash

1 741 7.8 Ruby

A RubyGems.org cache and private gem server
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
Modulation

1 356 1.8 Ruby

Modulation - explicit dependency management for Ruby
gemdiff

0 122 6.1 Ruby

Find source repositories for ruby gems. Open, compare, and update outdated gem versions
brewdo

1 94 0.0 Ruby

sandboxing for Homebrew

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).