Open Source Ruby Communications Software for Linux

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.

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.

Forem is an open-source platform for building community publishing sites—most famously powering the DEV community—that emphasizes authoring, discoverability, and social features tailored to niche communities. It combines long-form posts, collections, tagging, and following mechanisms with membership controls, moderation tools, and monetization options to let communities grow sustainably. The platform supports rich authoring (markdown, embeds), comment threading, reactions, and community curation so content creators and readers can engage in meaningful discussions rather than transient exchanges. Forem is designed to be portable and extensible: it exposes APIs for ingestion and embeds, theming options for brand alignment, and admin features for content policy, moderation workflows, and analytics. It encourages community governance patterns that let moderators and members participate in shaping norms and surfacing high-quality content.

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.

This project was created in order to support a new internet. One that is more open, free, and censorship-resistant in comparison to the old internet. An internet that eventually wouldn't need to rely on telecom towers, an outdated grid, or all these other "old school" forms of tech. We believe P2P compatibility is an important part of the future of the net. Grid Computing also plays a role in having a better means of transferring information in a speedy, more cost-efficient and reliable manner.

Csv2vcard is a program for converting *.csv (comma seperated values as e.g. exported by M$ Outlook) files containing contact information to the industry standard vcard format which can be imported by most mailers and PIM software (optimized for evolution)

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.

A modular extensible network protocol for general-purpose communication between a generic client and generic server housing various modules.

ScriptBot is a scriptable IRC bot. Based on PircBot and BSF, it allows to fully customize the bot's behaviour by editing script files in the scripting language of your choice.

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.

tDiary project was moved to GitHub. See https://github.com/tdiary/

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

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.).

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.

A simple Krovatka chatbot.

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.

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

D7 SMS allows you to reach your customers via SMS over D7's own connectivity to global mobile networks. D7 provides reliable and cost-effective SMS services to businesses across all industries and aims to connect all countries and territories via direct connections.

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.

A light-weight, web-based event information tracking application implemented in Java and Ruby. Development is done using Extreme Programming (XP) practices and includes both jUnit & FitNesse testing.