Open Source Ruby Internet 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

Notifications, chats, real-time updates, GPS trackers, collaboration tools, and other real-time features are essential for every modern app. And you should be able to build them in the comfort of your core framework: owning the data, using resources efficiently, and writing clean, maintainable code. AnyCable transforms your Rails application’s real-time performance, making it on par with Go, Elixir, and Node.js–based solutions so you can focus on implementing the business logic. Scale efficiently with AnyCable by leveraging its much lower RAM usage and better CPU utilization than Action Cable. Like with any data, being strategic when handling real-time data is super important. With AnyCable, you remain the owner: you store and access all the data directly, and you never send it to a 3rd-party. Simple and secure.

Social networking, back in your hands. Follow friends and discover new ones among more than 4.4M people. Publish anything you want: links, pictures, text, video. All on a platform that is community-owned and ad-free. Mastodon isn’t a single website like Twitter or Facebook, it's a network of thousands of communities operated by different organizations and individuals that provide a seamless social media experience. Mastodon comes with effective anti-abuse tools to help protect yourself. Thanks to the network's spread out and independent nature there are more moderators who you can approach for personal help, and communities with strict codes of conduct. You have 500 characters. You can adjust the thumbnails of your pictures with focal points. You can use custom emojis, hide things behind spoiler warnings and choose who sees a given post. Messed it up? You can delete & redraft for quick corrections.

Faraday is an HTTP client library abstraction layer that provides a common interface over many adapters (such as Net::HTTP) and embraces the concept of Rack middleware when processing the request/response cycle. You probably don't want to use Faraday directly in your project, as it will lack an actual client library to perform requests. Instead, you probably want to have a look at Awesome Faraday for a list of available adapters. The best starting point is the Faraday Website, with its introduction and explanation. This library aims to support and is tested against the currently officially supported Ruby implementations. This means that, even without a major release, we could add or drop support for Ruby versions, following their EOL. Currently that means we support Ruby 2.6+. You can also install the faraday_middleware extension gem to access a collection of useful Faraday middleware.

Your home feed should be filled with what matters to you most, not what a corporation thinks you should see. Radically different social media, back in the hands of the people. You know best what you want to see on your home feed. No algorithms or ads to waste your time. Follow anyone across any Mastodon server from a single account and receive their posts in chronological order, and make your corner of the internet a little more like you. Mastodon provides you with a unique possibility of managing your audience without middlemen. Mastodon deployed on your own infrastructure allows you to follow and be followed from any other Mastodon server online and is under no one's control but yours. Mastodon puts decision making back in your hands. Each server creates their own rules and regulations, which are enforced locally and not top-down like corporate social media, making it the most flexible in responding to the needs of different groups of people.

The online social world where you are in control. Instead of everyone’s data being held on huge central servers owned by a large organization, diaspora* exists on independently run servers (“pods”) all over the world. You choose which pod to register with, and you can then connect seamlessly with the diaspora* community worldwide. You can be whoever you want to be in diaspora*. Unlike some networks, you don’t have to use your real identity. You can interact with people in whatever way you choose. The only limit is your imagination. diaspora* is also Free Software, giving you liberty over how you use it. In diaspora* you own your data. You don’t sign over rights to a corporation or other interest who could use it. In addition, you choose who sees what you share, using Aspects. With diaspora*, your friends, your habits, and your content is your business, not ours!

ZK is an open-source Java framework for building modern web and mobile applications. It enables developers to create rich, interactive UIs using only Java — no JavaScript required. With 200+ Ajax-powered components, event-driven architecture, and support for popular technologies like Spring, Java EE, and JSP/JSF, ZK makes it simple to deliver powerful and user-friendly web applications.

Middleman is a Ruby-powered static site generator that emphasizes clean templates, flexible layouts, and a great developer experience. It supports common templating languages (ERB, Haml, Slim) and content formats (Markdown, AsciiDoc), plus front-matter metadata to drive layouts, navigation, and per-page behavior. A built-in dev server with live reload keeps iteration fast, while an asset pipeline handles fingerprinting, minification, and cache-friendly builds. Extensions cover blogging, internationalization, sitemaps, data-driven pages, and external build steps, so complex sites remain manageable without server-side code. Because output is plain files, Middleman sites deploy anywhere—from object storage and CDNs to GitHub Pages—benefiting from high performance and low attack surface. Teams use it for marketing sites, docs, microsites, and prototypes where content and design matter more than dynamic backends.

Wraith is a screenshot comparison tool, created by developers at BBC News. Wraith uses a headless browser to create screenshots of webpages on different environments (or at different moments in time) and then creates a diff of the two images; the affected areas are highlighted in blue. There are two main modes for using Wraith, 'capture' mode and 'history' mode. Wraith has some built-in JavaScript and configuration file templates for you to get started with right away. If you wish to take screenshots of a component rather than the entire page, use casperjs and pass a selector along with your paths. In the 'component' example config, you can see how we specify a component name, domain path and selector we want to capture. All config options will be placed in a YAML config file. You set the headless browser, diff mode, threshold, fuzz amount and screen widths.

Homebrew formulae to install zathura and plugins on Mac OS X. The OSX native integration (dock, window manager) has been added to the develop branch of zathura.

Haru is a free, cross platform, open-sourced software library for generating PDF written in ANSI-C. It can work as both a static-library (.a, .lib) and a shared-library (.so, .dll).

Hyper Estraier is a full-text search system. It works as with Google, but based on peer-to-peer architecture. Using Hyper Estraier, we can construct a large-scaled search engine with cheap computers.

Cross platform GUI managing bookmarks and shortcuts in a portable way. Support import/export, search, encryption, hierarchical tags, USB key installation, various environments integration, OS-dependent shortcuts, plugins extensibility.

BenchLab is a Web Application benchmarking framework using real web browsers.

Thinlet Contrib is a collection of example apps, addons, plugins, tutorials, FAQs, how-tos and other goodies for the Thinlet XUL (XML UI Language) toolkit.

JLink lets users author flow charts based on ISO 5807 and IBM standards. Developers can use JLink to add flowcharts to applications, serve a flow chart over the web in PDF or PNG, or dynamically create a flowchart with Javascript, Python or Ruby scripts

LogiLogi is a system to share and discuss ideas in an integrated and cumulative way. Openness and quality are it's core aims. We also develop other web2.0 / social software FOSS projects...

OSWiki is a wiki based on the open source model. Instead of allowing any one to edit and release any article, users must first prove themselves by making useful contributions. If the user proves trustworthy, she will gain more and more privileges.

A Social Networking System aimed to deploy and test for enhancing the efficiency on study by minimizing the time used for looking for studying material by interacting and exchanging information between students of similar studies.

ZK Light is renamed to ZKuery and moved to http://code.google.com/p/zkuery/. ZK Light is a client-only version of ZK; Support Java, C, PHP, Python...

Add Ajax capabilities to Rails websites, with minimal code changes. Supports history, bookmarking, partial refreshes, Rails flashes, user callbacks, scripts execution, redirections. Built upon Rails-UJS and jQuery.

webgeno is a light-weight Content Management System (CMS) for generating websites offline. It is primarily designed for personal websites where the user doesn't have access to the server except to upload files.

A drop-in framework for adding tagging (folksonomy) capabilities to existing applications

The AJAX Tree is a modified version of SilverStripe's tree control that adds dynamic loading of child nodes via AJAX. The project contains some Ruby-on-Rails examples that show how to use and customize the tree.