Web Directory

» AESCrypt
   Program to encrypt/decrypt streams of data using Rijndael and Cipher Block Feedback mode (CFB-128), for shell scripts and Ruby. Description, downloads.
   http://aescrypt.sourceforge.net/

» About Ruby
   Scripts and libraries, Pcap libpcap interface, Python embedded in Ruby, Ruby SWIG module. By Masaki Fukushima.
   http://www.goto.info.waseda.ac.jp/~fukusima/ruby/index-e.html

» Alma
   A Language for MAcro processing, general purpose, powered by Ruby. Allows using any Ruby method in the same way one uses macros, so, immediately, Alma has thousands of built-in functions. [Open Source, GPL]
   http://harpo.free.fr/alma/

» Arachno Ruby
   Commercial IDE, with integrated debugger, useful for normal and Web programming, applications. [Scriptolutions]
   http://www.ruby-ide.com/ruby/ruby_ide_and_ruby_editor.php

» AspectR
   Module adds simple aspect-oriented programming concepts to Ruby; allows wrapping code around extant methods in classes, which separates different concerns into different parts of the code. [Open Source, GPL]
   http://aspectr.sourceforge.net/

» BioRuby
   Ruby library; goal: implement integrated environment for bioinformatics research in Ruby. Kept simple to maximize usability, efficiency for biologists as a daily tool. Begun in Japan, supported by Universities of Tokyo, Kyoto; Open Bio Foundation.
   http://bioruby.org/

» Curb
   Provides a module allowing to use the curl library in an application.
   http://curb.rubyforge.org/

» DRP: Directed Ruby Programming
   Generative programming system, for genetic programming, grammatical evolution, or hybrid GP-GE; coded in all Ruby; best suited for interactive evolution and design work. Open source, GPL.
   http://drp.rubyforge.org/

» Dectxn
   Provides a Rails plugin to offer declarative transaction management.
   http://dectxn.rubyforge.org

» Erik Veenstra: Ruby
   Projects (Tar2RubyScript, RubyScript2Exe, RubyWebDialogs, AllInOneRuby), well documented; tutorials (Distributing Ruby Applications, Distributing Rails Applications, Monitor-Functions), Code Snippets.
   http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/ruby.html

» FreeRIDE
   Ruby Integrated Development Environment, IDE. Wiki format, descriptions, FAQ, documents, screenshots, development and subproject links. Linux, Unix, Windows. [Open Source]
   http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl

» Gecode/R
   Offers an interface to the constraint programming library Gecode.
   http://gecoder.rubyforge.org

» Gemcutter
   An open source directory of gems powered by the ruby community.
   http://gemcutter.org/

» Google Data on Rails
   Offers a library intending to help using Google services with the GData api format.
   http://code.google.com/intl/fr/apis/gdata/articles/gdata_on_rails.html

» HighLine
   High level library to deal with text user interfaces, build command line interfaces. Robust formatting has word wrap, paging, and list handling are possible. Handles validation rules for user input, implements menus easily. [Open source, GPL or Ruby Licen
   http://highline.rubyforge.org/

» Hipster's
   Dozens of Ruby programs. Examples: reverse dependency tool, simple HTTP daemon, vim syntax coloring, Design by Contract, Literate Ruby, Fibonacci generators, generic XML generator.
   http://www.xs4all.nl/~hipster/

» LoveRubyNet
   Software Archive, many projects. Examples: Racc, LALR(1) Perser generator; TMail, Mail Class (implements MIME multipart, more); strscan, extension to scan string faster. English and Japanese versions. Ruby-dev summary index. By Minero Aoki.
   http://www.loveruby.net/

» Mocha
   Library for mocking and stubbing using a syntax like with JMock and SchMock.
   http://mocha.rubyforge.org

» Motoyuki Kasahara's Page
   Ruby tools: find2 replaces find.rb, getoptlong library to parse command line options. Other free software.
   http://www.sra.co.jp/people/m-kasahr/

» MySQL/Ruby
   MySQL API module (extension library) for Ruby; gives same functions to Ruby programs that MySQL C API gives to C programs.
   http://www.tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/

» Numerical Ruby
   Modules: NArray class for Numerical N-dimensional Arrays; Quanty (units) class containing value and unit, for automatic unit conversion and calculation; link to PGPlot graphics library interface.
   http://narray.rubyforge.org/

» Prawn
   Provides a library to generate PDF documents.
   http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/

» RDE: Ruby Development Environment
   Integrated Development Environment, mostly a GUI wrapper of debug.rb with editor, Windows only. Screenshot, description, downloads: old, new.
   http://homepage2.nifty.com/sakazuki/rde_en/

» RUDL Library
   Interfaces the Simple Directmedia Library to Ruby, giving it high speed graphics, sound, and input abilities. Links to related projects. [Open source, LGPL]
   http://rudl.sourceforge.net/

» RZBD
   Ruby Zebedee: 100% compatible clone (protocol, configuration file), can be used by Ruby scripts easily like standard Socket API. Zebedee is simple program to form encrypted, compressed tunnel for TCP/IP or UDP data between two systems.
   http://www007.upp.so-net.ne.jp/kengai/zebedee/rzbd.html

» Rake
   Provides a simple build program with capabilities similar to make.
   http://rake.rubyforge.org/

» Rinn
   CORBA for Ruby. Goal: a pure Ruby version based on CORBA-Ruby Mapping Specification.
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/rinn/

» Rockit
   Ruby O-o Compiler construction toolKIT; easy-to-use, written in and emits Ruby code. Current focus: 'front-end' phases of compiler construction; generates lexer and parser (more advanced than yacc's LaLr(1), grammars in Extended Backus-Naur form.
   http://rockit.sourceforge.net/

» RuSTEM
   Fast Ruby module with Porter stemming algorithm; a process to remove commoner morphological and inflexional endings from words in English; main use is as part of term normalisation process usually done when setting up Information Retrieval systems.
   http://freshmeat.net/projects/rustem/

» Ruby Binaries
   Cygwin DLL; GTk+ on Win32 DLLs; bmingw; rb2exe, turns Ruby scripts to executable files, which need Ruby interpreter.
   http://www.os.rim.or.jp/~eban/

» Ruby In Steel IDE
   Provides an IDE for Visual Studio with a commercial and a free personal edition.
   http://www.sapphiresteel.com

» Ruby as Glue Language
   Ruby bindings for several libraries, programs, with readme files.
   http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~Nori/ruby/

» Ruby.PHP
   Offers a Ruby to PHP compiler, allowing a developer to write Ruby code and compile it to be run with PHP.
   http://www.ruby-php.org/

» Ruby/GP
   Genetic programming library in Ruby.
   http://www31.tok2.com/home/akimichi/aki/program/gp/

» RubyCocoa
   Ruby/Objective-C bridge for Mac OS X with Cocoa; Cocoa bindings for Ruby. Allows native OS function mixins and GUI component use, write Cocoa programs in Ruby, mix Ruby and Objective-C code, create and use Cocoa objects in Ruby scripts. English, Nihongo.
   http://rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/

» RubyInline
   Analog to Perl's Inline::C, allows embedding C external module code in Ruby scripts directly; code is compiled and run on the fly, as needed. [open source, MIT License]
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/rubyinline/

» RubyUnit
   Simple testing framework for Ruby. Descriptions, downloads.
   http://homepage1.nifty.com/markey/ruby/rubyunit/index_e.html

» Tesly Jr.
   Logs results of automated unit tests, and displays results in HTML view. RSS feeds track every test run.
   http://junior.tesly.com/

» WxRuby
   Ruby bindings to the wxWindows cross-platform toolkit; documents, references, Wiki, downloads. [Open source]
   http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl

» YAML.rb is YAML for Ruby
   Full-featured YAML parser and emitter. Use as drop-in replacement for PStore, or use one of its several APIs to store object data in friendly and readable YAML style; write data structures in plain text.
   http://yaml4r.sourceforge.net/doc/

» Yoshidam's Secret Page: Ruby
   Information on Ruby, powered by his XML module. Modules: XMLParser, Uconv, Oracle, VFlib3, Perl, Multibyte Extension for String class, Syslog; Libraries: Unicode, Susie Plugin, DirectDraw for Ruby, MDN.
   http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby.html

» ncurses-ruby
   Ruby module; makes most functions, constants, and external variables of the C ncurses library accessible from Ruby.
   http://ncurses-ruby.berlios.de/