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Top 9 Ruby package-manager Projects
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Project mention: Warning: Google search for 'brew install' serves phishing links in top results | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-31
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What I find remarkable is that for at least a decade, i.e., long before LLM scrapers were a thing, GitHub engineers have been reaching out to popular package manager projects, asking them to do away with shallow clones [0] [1]. They basically used the same reasoning as your comment did.
[0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/9383
[1]: https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989#issuecomm...
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Project mention: Ruby Shipped the Fix for SleeperGem 45 Days Before It Happened | dev.to | 2026-07-21
Gemfile resolves to source "https://rubygems.org" concurrent-ruby 1.3.8 (2 days old) source "https://rubygems.org", cooldown: 7 concurrent-ruby 1.3.7
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I found https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/4294 from 2023. No one had fixed it, yet.
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Project mention: Show HN: I stopped building apps for people. Now I make CLI tools for agents | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-26
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AppSignal
AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed. Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.
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pdfzus Homebrew Tap
PDF-Zusammenfugen-homebrew is the official Homebrew tap for installing the pdf-zusammenfugen CLI on macOS. It provides a simple Homebrew-based distribution channel for users who want to install, update, and remove the tool through standard package manager workflows instead of downloading binaries manually. The tap is intended to make the pdf-zusammenfugen command easier to access for developers, power users, and anyone who prefers command-line installation on macOS. It works as the packaging la
Project mention: pdfzus Homebrew Tap VS PDF-Zusammenfugen-cargo - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/PDF-Zusammenfugen-homebrew | 2026-03-16
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-manager projects in Ruby? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | HomeBrew | 49,440 |
| 2 | CocoaPods | 14,829 |
| 3 | rubygems | 3,966 |
| 4 | chromebrew | 2,516 |
| 5 | RubyGems | 2,441 |
| 6 | gel | 822 |
| 7 | homebrew-tap | 10 |
| 8 | sfizio | 6 |
| 9 | pdfzus Homebrew Tap | 0 |
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