Ruby Package Management

Open-source Ruby projects categorized as Package Management

Top 10 Ruby Package Management Projects

Package Management
  1. Homebrew-cask

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

    Project mention: Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-05

    curl -sSLo /tmp/bartender.rb "https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/ac7bd3c11799ce95a7057796e9d01db81796f381/Casks/b/bartender.rb"

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  3. CocoaPods

    The Cocoa Dependency Manager.

    Project mention: Criando um mĂłdulo com Swift Package Manager | dev.to | 2024-08-12
  4. fpm

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

  5. RubyGems

    The Ruby community's gem hosting service.

    Project mention: ⚙️ Building a better Ruby ORM for time series and analytics | dev.to | 2025-02-06

    The following code snippet highlights the real-life use case that inspired me to build a continuous aggregates macro for better time-series data aggregations. It’s part of a RubyGems contribution I made, and it’s still a work in progress. However, it’s worth validating how this idea can reduce the Ruby code you’ll have to maintain.

  6. Gem in a Box

    Really simple rubygem hosting

  7. Berkshelf

    A Chef Cookbook manager

  8. gemstash

    A RubyGems.org cache and private gem server

  9. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

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  10. Modulation

    Modulation - explicit dependency management for Ruby

  11. gemdiff

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 Open, compare, and update outdated gem versions

  12. brewdo

    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).

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Index

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

# Project Stars
1 Homebrew-cask 21,282
2 CocoaPods 14,692
3 fpm 11,272
4 RubyGems 2,362
5 Gem in a Box 1,508
6 Berkshelf 1,073
7 gemstash 768
8 Modulation 355
9 gemdiff 123
10 brewdo 96

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