Top 3 Ruby Packaging Projects

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

omnibus-ruby

1 1,280 6.1 Ruby

Easily create full-stack installers for your project across a variety of platforms.
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open-build-service

16 887 10.0 Ruby

Build and distribute Linux packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way #obs

Project mention: Snaps. Why? Please Stop | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-23

It is basically a solved problem for developers.
https://build.opensuse.org/ will let you target 20+ distros with very little work. You can also run your own local instance if you want https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service

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).