Open Source Ruby Communications Software

Zero Install is a decentralised cross-distribution software installation system. Create one package that works everywhere! With dependency handling and automatic updates, full support for shared libraries, and integration with native package managers

This project has been moved to https://milter-manager.osdn.jp/ milter manager protects you from spam mails and virus mails effectively with milter. milter manager has embedded Ruby interpreter to control milters flexibly. milter manager can be used with Sendmail on Postfix on Ubuntu, CentOS, FreeBSD and so on.

Discourse is a modern, open-source discussion platform that rethinks forum software with an emphasis on civilized, long-lived conversations and community moderation at scale. It replaces dated bulletin-board paradigms with features like real-time updates, infinite scrolling, rich text composition, and progressive trust levels that let communities delegate moderation as members demonstrate good behavior. On the administrative side, Discourse provides powerful moderation tools—flagging, bulk actions, user silencing, and automated throttles—plus robust spam defenses and analytics to surface community health signals. The platform is extensible: a plugin system and well-documented APIs let organizations add integrations (SSO, chat bridges, badges, embeds) and tailor behavior without hacking core code.

css-only-chat is a proof-of-concept demonstration that implements a functioning chat interface using only HTML and CSS, without any JavaScript or backend logic. The project showcases creative use of CSS selectors, checkboxes, labels, and the :checked pseudo-class to mimic interactive behaviors normally handled by JavaScript. Messages are pre-written in the HTML and displayed based on user interaction, making it more of a playful experiment than a real messaging platform. Its main purpose is to illustrate the limits of CSS as a programming and UI tool, serving as both an educational example and a bit of humor within the developer community. By pushing CSS beyond its conventional role, it demonstrates how user interfaces can be simulated through styling tricks and static structures. Although not suitable for production use, it stands as a fun exercise in front-end creativity and unconventional coding challenges.

MOVED: This project has moved to https://github.com/Frug/AJAX-Chat AJAX Chat is a fully customizable web chat implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL which integrates nicely with common forum systems like phpBB, MyBB, PunBB, SMF and vBulletin. A Flash and Ruby based socket connection can be used to boost performance.

XDCC-Fetch, written entirely in Ruby, is a platform independent tool for collecting, searching and downloading broadcasted XDCC announcements within IRC channels. XDCC-Fetch supports, amoung other features, multiple IRC Servers and search on typing.

PhobIRC is a global project to create a new model of irc channel management based on a main entity which controls bots and irc clients with a set of scripts.

A Multiplatform GUI for Mldonkey( Open source, multi-platform, multi-protocol P2P client. Includes support for eDonkey2000, Overnet, BitTorrent, Direct Connect and Fasttrack, ... ) written on JRuby + Swing

The libptpmgmt Project provides a library to communicate with LinuxPTP using IEEE 1558 management messages over a network.

uCast is a web-based system that allows users to publish, browse, and subscribe to podcasts. This software was developed at, and thus is targeted for use at, a higher education institution. Also: shared podcast control, file re-utilization, aliases.

NOTICE: We're not on SourceForge anymore. See http://autoproj.org for our new domain. Auto is modern, simple, and smart automated bot software, designed per a philosophy of minimalism, simplicity, usability, cleanliness, and easy extensibility. It has support for IRC (v3.1) with planned support for XMPP. It can be easily extended by means of its plugin API, and offers a host of features. It is known to function on any OS on which Ruby 1.9 functions (such as Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, Microsoft Windows, etc.).

LimeChat is an IRC client written on RubyCocoa.

This program sends multipart e-mail messages to a list. The list file can specify a to-address, to-name, from-address, from-name, subject and mergers. The program is written using a few Ruby classes which can be used for similiar projects.

MOR is Billing System for Asterisk PBX. It supports postpaid/prepaid billing with LCR and Fail-Over. Realtime Asterisk management using web interface. Reporting and advanced rating. Based on fast C application for Asterisk and Ruby On Rails GUI.

Social-Networking-Platform for University Alumni. Guiding principle: networking is the game! Key targets: promote recent events, fairs and seminars * environment of trust * sustainable connection * career development * benefit of experience # Web 2.0 # R

Bash on Rails is quote database engine (like http://bash.org/or http://bash.org.ru/) written with Ruby on Rails framework. Supports multiple moderators with different privileges, editing quotes, sorting quotes by rating, quote searching and RSS feed.

Boqueron is a ruby/gtk2 based jabber client aims to be simple and effective. It uses xmpp4r. It's intended for newbies in jabber and eye-candy fashioned. Join to conference in Jabber: boqueron@conf.jabberes.org.

CZEBOX is a referral Open Source implementation of ISDS DataBoxes (http://datoveschranky.info/), eGovernment messaging system founded by Ministry of Interior Czech Republic and Czech Post.

This gem provides a simple and extremely flexible way to upload files from Ruby applications. It works well with Rack based web applications, such as Ruby on Rails. CarrierWave gives you a store for permanent storage, and a cache for temporary storage. You can use different stores, including filesystem and cloud storage. Most of the time you are going to want to use CarrierWave together with an ORM. It is quite simple to mount uploaders on columns in your model, so you can simply assign files and get going. Make sure you are loading CarrierWave after loading your ORM, otherwise you'll need to require the relevant extension manually. Now you can cache files by assigning them to the attribute, they will automatically be stored when the record is saved. CarrierWave also has convenient support for multiple file upload fields. Add a column which can store an array. This could be an array column or a JSON column for example. Your choice depends on what your database supports.

A simple Krovatka chatbot.

Mac OS/X Control-GUI for hellanzb

Fax software that supports class1.0 fax modem and 2D encoding(currenly MR only, MMR is planned). With USR modem, voice mode is supported. Since this software is implemented as an extension of ruby scripting language, you can easily create your own app.

HTTP conformance tests, mainly aimed at enforcing baseline HTTP functionality for the SimpleTest web test client.

I DO NO LONGER CLAIM PLATFORM-INDEPEDENCE FOR Crème Fraiche. THIS PROGRAM RUNS ON LINUX. Crème Fraiche transforms EML-files, as they are created by email-clients, to PDF. PSE see the rubygems.org site for updates or use the gem-tool right away to install Crème Fraiche: ~$ gem install cremefraiche