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Ruby on RailsServer-side web application framework written in Ruby.
Ruby
Dynamic, object-oriented programming language.
rails_event_store
Ruby gem providing an event store and event-driven infrastructure for Rails.
SQLite
In-process relational database engine.
PostgreSQL
Open-source relational database.
Sidekiq
Background job processor for Ruby applications.
JRuby
Ruby implementation on the JVM with true parallelism and Java interop.
ViewComponent
GitHub-originated Rails gem for building reusable, testable view components.
Mutant
Mutation testing tool for Ruby created by Markus Schirp.
Phlex
Ruby gem for building HTML views as pure Ruby objects.
Sorbet
Stripe-authored gradual static type checker for Ruby.
Trailblazer
Ruby framework offering high-level architecture above Rails with operations, cells, and form objects.
Hotwire
HTML-over-the-wire front-end stack: Turbo (Drive/Frames/Streams) plus Stimulus.
GraphQL
Query language and runtime for APIs from Facebook.
Docker
Container platform for packaging and running applications.
OpenTelemetry
Vendor-neutral standard for distributed tracing and metrics.
React
Component-based JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
Reform
Ruby gem modeling HTML forms as their own validation-aware objects.
Literal
Ruby gem by Joel Drapper providing composable runtime types built on the === interface.
Litestream
Streaming point-in-time backup utility for SQLite databases to S3-compatible storage.
Stimulus
Modest JavaScript framework from Basecamp/DHH that augments server-rendered HTML.
Hanami
Modular Ruby web framework positioned as a Rails alternative.
Avo
Rails admin UI gem that generates admin panels from models.
Devise
Popular Ruby gem providing authentication for Rails applications.
TestBench
Minimal Ruby test framework from Eventide; self-testable, composable, fixture-oriented.
Turbo
HTML-over-the-wire library providing Drive, Frames, and Streams for Rails and beyond.
Turbo Native
Native iOS/Android library extending Turbo Drive for hybrid apps.
Action Cable
Rails framework for WebSocket-based real-time features.
FFmpeg
Command-line tool for transcoding and processing audio/video.
RBS
Ruby's official type-signature language.
Spree
Open-source Ruby on Rails e-commerce platform.
async
Fiber-based asynchronous I/O framework for Ruby.
langchainrb
Open-source Ruby gem for building LLM-powered applications, agents, and RAG systems.
Logux
Framework for optimistic, real-time UI treating client and server as a distributed system.
TypeScript
Microsoft-authored typed superset of JavaScript compiling to plain JS.
WebMock
Ruby gem for stubbing HTTP requests and verifying HTTP calls in tests.
gRPC
Google-born RPC framework using HTTP/2 and Protocol Buffers.
Kamal
Docker-based deployment tool for web apps with blue-green deploys and a built-in proxy.
Pathom
Clojure library for building graph APIs via composable resolvers.
Rack
Common Ruby web-server interface underlying all major Ruby web frameworks.
Semantic Logger
Mature Ruby logging library supporting structured JSON payloads and appenders.
Sentry
Error tracking and alerting service.
Tailwind CSS
Utility-first CSS framework.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon's cloud infrastructure platform.
enhanced-sqlite3-adapter
Ruby gem packaging production-ready SQLite configuration and Active Record enhancements for Rails.
Heroku
PaaS for deploying Ruby and web applications.
HTTP/2
Binary, multiplexed successor to HTTP/1.1.
image_processing gem
Functional Ruby gem for image processing with ImageMagick and libvips backends.
minitest
Ruby's built-in lightweight testing framework with low-level semantics.
Puma
Concurrent Rack-compatible Ruby web server.
RSpec
Ruby behavior-driven testing framework.
Ruby LLM
Ruby gem wrapping LLM APIs with readable code; growing very fast.
CarrierWave
Ruby file-attachment library using external uploader classes.
ChatGPT
OpenAI's conversational LLM assistant.
Chrono
C++ standard library for type-safe durations, time points, and calendars.
Elixir
Functional, concurrent language on the BEAM VM.
Ember.js
Opinionated JavaScript framework with conventions borrowed from Rails.
Grafana
Dashboard and alerting tool for time-series metrics.
granity
Ruby gem bringing fine-grained (relationship-based) authorization to Rails.
Hanami View
Framework-agnostic Ruby view gem extracted from Hanami 2.1.
Lookbook
Rails gem providing a browsable UI for ViewComponent previews.
MessageDB
Postgres-backed single-table message store for event sourcing, distributed as a Ruby gem.
Pundit
Ruby gem for object-level authorization policies.
Redis
In-memory data store often used as a pub/sub broker.
Rust
Memory-safe systems programming language.
Shrine
Modular, framework-agnostic Ruby file-attachment library built on Rack.
Tapioca
Shopify CLI for downloading and generating Sorbet RBI type stubs.
test-prof
Evil Martians toolkit for profiling and speeding up Ruby test suites.
Active Storage
Rails framework for attaching files/images to models.
aggregate_root
Arkency Ruby gem for building event-sourced aggregates.
Argon2
Modern password-hashing function, winner of the 2015 PHC.
Brotli
HTTP compression algorithm with better ratios than gzip.
dry-types
Ruby library for static-like type definitions and constraints.
Erlang
BEAM-VM language with built-in actor-based concurrency and messaging.
EventMachine
Reactor-pattern event-driven I/O library for Ruby.
Faker
Ruby gem generating realistic fake data for seeds and tests.
Falcon
Fiber-based Ruby web server built on the async ecosystem.
Fulcro
ClojureScript full-stack framework using EQL queries for front-end data.
graphql-ruby
Ruby gem implementing the GraphQL specification for Ruby/Rails apps.
Guard
Ruby file-watcher that reruns tests on file change.
Hatchbox
Single-node deployment platform for Rails applications.
htmx
JavaScript library enabling server-rendered HTML updates via extended HTML attributes.
llama.cpp
C/C++ inference engine for running LLMs locally.
neighbor
Ruby gem by Andrew Kane adding vector search to Postgres and SQLite via Active Record.
Node.js
JavaScript runtime for backend applications built on V8.
Packwerk
Shopify gem enforcing package boundaries inside a Rails monolith via static analysis.
Relay
AT Protocol server aggregating many PDS firehoses into one.
TruffleRuby
GraalVM-based high-performance Ruby implementation.
Turbo Streams
Hotwire primitive delivering targeted HTML fragment updates over HTTP or WebSockets.
Uppy
Modular modern JavaScript library for browser file uploads.
acts_as_tenant
Rails gem implementing row-level multi-tenancy via default scopes.
Apartment
Rails gem for schema- and database-per-tenant multi-tenancy.
Apollo GraphQL
GraphQL platform offering schema visualization, monitoring and client tooling.
Blue Factory
Sinatra-based Ruby gem for hosting Bluesky custom feeds.
Citus
PostgreSQL extension bundling columnar storage, distributed tables and parallel querying.
Claude
Anthropic's LLM, used by Louis as the 'Rubyana Gems' coding assistant.
Clojure
JVM Lisp dialect offering transactional memory, processes, and threads.
Cloudflare R2
Cloudflare's S3-compatible object storage with no egress fees.
Cloudflare Web Analytics
Cloudflare's free Real User Monitoring product tracking core web vitals on real visitors.
devise_token_auth
Token-based authentication gem complementing Devise for Ruby APIs.
dry-container
dry-rb IoC container for registering and resolving dependencies.
dry-struct
Ruby library for typed struct definitions built on dry-types.
Entity Store
Eventide Ruby library implementing entity projection with cache and snapshotting.
ESP32
Low-cost Wi-Fi/Bluetooth microcontroller by Espressif.
FactoryBot
Ruby gem for building test fixtures as factory-defined objects.
Faraday
Ruby HTTP client with pluggable middleware.
GitHub Actions
GitHub's hosted CI/CD service with self-hosted runner support.
Glimmer
Ember's rendering engine.
graphql-batch
Shopify gem for batch-loading associations in GraphQL resolvers.
Haskell
Statically-typed purely functional language with a sophisticated type system.
Honeycomb
Observability SaaS built around OpenTelemetry tracing.
interactor
Ruby gem for composing multi-step business interactions as small classes.
jsbundling-rails
Rails gem integrating esbuild/rollup/webpack bundlers via npm scripts.
Jumpstart Pro
Rails application starter kit by Chris Oliver with Turbo Native iOS/Android kits.
Kamal Proxy
Kamal's companion reverse proxy that routes and health-checks app containers.
Mimic
Eventide Ruby library that builds inert null-object substitutes from any class's interface.
mruby
Small, embeddable Ruby interpreter authored by Matz.
.NET
Microsoft's general-purpose application platform.
Paperclip
Legacy Ruby file attachment library tied to ActiveRecord models.
Prometheus
Metrics collection and monitoring system with a pull model.
Quickdraw
Ruby test framework created by Joel Drapper.
RBI
Ruby interface file format for Sorbet type signatures separate from implementation.
Ruby Event Store
Generic Ruby event store library, framework-agnostic core of rails_event_store.
Solidus
Community fork of Spree created when upstream was underactively maintained.
streamio-ffmpeg
Ruby wrapper around ffmpeg with a DSL and progress tracking.
Stripe
Online payments company; original author of the Sorbet Ruby type checker.
Tailscale
Peer-to-peer mesh VPN, free for small usage.
Tyrant
Trailblazer-based replacement for Devise shipping predefined auth workflows.
Unicorn
Forking Rack-compatible Ruby web server.
activerecord-multi-tenant
Rails gem implementing row-level multi-tenancy.
Amazon CloudFront
AWS content delivery network, also used as a request-proxy exposing geo/IP headers.
Amazon Route 53
AWS managed DNS service with geolocation routing.
Amazon S3
AWS object storage service commonly used for user uploads.
Apache Kafka
Distributed log/streaming platform sometimes used as an event store.
Automatic Signed Exchanges
Cloudflare feature that generates and signs SXG packages, including sub-resource hashes.
AWS CloudWatch
AWS logging and metrics service.
AWS DataSync
AWS managed data-transfer service for files.
AWS Elastic Load Balancer
AWS load balancer with path-pattern redirect rules.
Bootsnap
Shopify gem caching Ruby/Rails boot-time work to speed up startup.
C++
Statically-typed systems programming language.
carrierwave-video
CarrierWave extension for transcoding videos with ffmpeg.
Cells
Ruby gem encapsulating view fragments as testable component objects.
Claude Code
Anthropic's terminal coding agent with MCP support.
ClojureScript
Clojure dialect compiling to JavaScript.
concurrent-ruby
Ruby concurrency library providing futures, promises, thread pools and tasking abstractions.
cssbundling-rails
Rails gem integrating CSS bundlers (Tailwind, PostCSS, Dart Sass, Bootstrap) via npm scripts.
curl
Ubiquitous data-transfer library/CLI maintained by a small volunteer team.
Datadog
SaaS observability platform for metrics, logs and traces.
Datastar
Tiny JS library that morphs server-pushed HTML over SSE into the DOM.
decide_rb
Ruby gem implementing the decider pattern, created as a demo alternative to array-sample.
Dependency
Eventide Ruby library adding null-coalescing, diagnostic-substitutable dependency attributes.
devise-two-factor
Devise extension adding two-factor authentication to Rails apps.
dry-validation
Ruby validation library from the dry-rb family.
EDN
Extensible Data Notation — Clojure's cross-language data serialization format.
esbuild
Extremely fast JavaScript/TypeScript bundler.
ESP-IDF
Official Espressif toolkit for ESP32 built on FreeRTOS.
fail2ban
Log-scanning service that bans IPs attacking SSH and other services.
ffprobe
FFmpeg companion tool that reports media file metadata.
Flow
Facebook static type checker for JavaScript.
graphql-preload
Ruby gem that eager-loads has_many associations in GraphQL resolvers.
hanami-events
Anton Davydov's Ruby gem for event-driven transport in Hanami apps.
Heckle
Early Haskell mutation testing tool, a logical predecessor to Mutant.
HYA
Honey Badger email-campaign engine with a step/wait DSL for Rails.
JRuby Rack
Bridge library connecting the Java Servlet API to any Rack-based Ruby app.
JSON API Resources
Ruby gem implementing JSON API in Rails applications.
libvips
High-performance image processing library with a narrower format scope.
LiteFS
Multi-node SQLite replication built by Ben Johnson, successor to Litestream.
llamafile
Single-binary distribution of llama.cpp that runs models across macOS, Windows, and Linux.
methods gem
Ruby gem for ergonomic method references.
Michelle
thoughtbot gem for user self-scheduling in healthcare apps.
MinIO
Open-source, S3-compatible object storage server, useful for tests.
MobX
Reactive state management library for JavaScript.
MQTT
Lightweight pub/sub messaging protocol for IoT and bidirectional messaging.
MySQL
Open-source relational database.
Opal
Ruby-to-JavaScript transpiler.
OpenAI GPT-4
OpenAI's flagship LLM; current leader among large language models.
Passenger
Phusion's Ruby application server with a worker process model.
PgHero
Postgres performance dashboard by Andrew Kane; finds missing indexes.
Phoenix
Elixir web framework known for low-latency request handling.
Pjax
GitHub library by Chris Wanstrath that swapped page HTML on link click for SPA-like feel.
Rails 5.2
Version of Ruby on Rails with Active Storage and Russian-doll caching defaults.
Rails Event Store Event Browser
UI bundled with rails_event_store for browsing events, written in Elm.
React Native
Facebook framework letting JavaScript render fully native UI components.
RealtimeBoard
Collaborative online whiteboard used for remote EventStorming.
Roda
Lightweight Ruby web framework built on a routing tree and plugin system.
ROM
Ruby Object Mapper — data-mapper alternative to Active Record.
Rubinius
Ruby implementation written largely in Ruby.
Segment
Customer-data and analytics event routing platform.
server-engine
Ruby framework for implementing robust multi-process servers with supervision.
Skyfall
Ruby gem for consuming the AT Protocol firehose.
Spring
Rails application preloader that keeps the app in memory between commands.
sqlite3-ruby
Ruby driver gem binding SQLite to Ruby and Active Record.
Steep
Ruby static type checker for RBS signatures by Soutaro Matsumoto.
step gem
Ruby gem for building declarative, self-documenting REST APIs with railway-oriented pipelines.
Top Secret
thoughtbot gem that anonymizes text into structured JSON before sending to LLMs/APIs.
Turbo Frames
Hotwire primitive letting independent page regions be loaded and navigated separately.
Turbo Laravel
Extension bringing Hotwire's Turbo to the Laravel PHP framework.
UFW
Ubuntu's uncomplicated firewall for host-level port filtering.
Vernier
New Ruby profiler by John Hawthorne from the Rails core team.
Webpacker
Legacy Rails gem integrating webpack-based JavaScript tooling.
YARV
Yet Another Ruby Virtual Machine; MRI Ruby's stack-based bytecode VM.
YJIT
Shopify-developed just-in-time compiler for MRI Ruby.
Active Job Continuation
Rails 8.1 feature from 37signals for resuming long-running Active Job work.
acts_as_paranoid
Rails gem implementing soft deletion via a deleted_at column.
Amazon ECS
AWS managed container orchestration service.
anyway_config
Ruby configuration library using declarative classes and pluggable loaders.
Apollo GraphQL Platform
GraphQL client and server platform with per-field performance metrics.
Apple QuickTime
Apple's media container, progenitor of the ISO base media format.
AppSignal
Application performance and error monitoring service.
AWS Lambda
Amazon serverless function-as-a-service platform.
AWS SDK for Ruby
Amazon AWS SDK for Ruby; uses Net::HTTP directly.
Axon Framework
Java framework for event sourcing, CQRS and DDD built by AxonIQ.
Babel
JavaScript compiler enabling next-gen syntax to run today.
Baron
Ruby gem for chunking content into meaningful pieces for embedding.
bcrypt
Password-hashing function with a fixed 72-byte input limit.
Browserslist
NPM package declaring supported browser versions for front-end tooling.
Capybara
Ruby acceptance-test framework simulating user interactions in a browser.
carrierwave_backgrounder
CarrierWave companion gem that moves processing to background workers.
ClickHouse
Columnar OLAP database from Yandex for analytical workloads.
Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare's edge compute platform for running JavaScript on HTTP requests/responses.
CockroachDB
Distributed SQL database with auto-sharding and geo-aware replication.
Crystal
Compiled language with Ruby-like syntax and built-in concurrency.
Crystal Ball
Ruby gem picking tests to run based on code coverage of changed files.
Dash
macOS GUI documentation browser for developer API docs.
Deface
Rails gem for injecting HTML into existing view markup via selectors.
devise_token_authenticatable
Devise extension adding token-based authentication for API clients.
didkit
Ruby gem for working with AT Protocol DIDs and the PLC directory.
Docker Compose
Tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications.
Elasticsearch
Distributed search and analytics engine.
Elm
Functional language for reliable web frontends, compiling to JavaScript.
Ethereum
Decentralized platform running smart contracts on a distributed state database.
Express.js
Minimalist web framework for Node.js.
FakeWeb
Earlier Ruby HTTP stubbing gem that predated WebMock.
Falcor
Netflix data-fetching library for unified API graph.
FreeRTOS
Real-time operating system for microcontrollers.
Fulcro Inspect
Chrome DevTools panel for inspecting Fulcro applications.
Go
Statically-typed compiled language suited to concurrent network services.
GraalVM
Alternative JVM with aggressive optimizing JIT (Graal) and polyglot support.
Grace
Larger-company visual builder for Bluesky custom feeds.
heapy
Ruby gem for analyzing heap dumps produced by ObjectSpace.
Homebrew
Popular macOS package manager created by Max Howell.
ImageMagick
Widely used image-manipulation command-line tool and library.
Import Maps
Browser-native mechanism for ES-module URL resolution; core of Rails 7 no-build frontend.
Initializer
Eventide Ruby library enforcing primitive initializers that only accept and record values.
Iodine
C-based high-performance Ruby web server with real-time support.
Java
General-purpose object-oriented programming language.
Jekyll
Ruby static site generator, the engine behind GitHub Pages.
Jetstream
JSON-based AT Protocol firehose with much lower bandwidth than CBOR relay.
JIRA
Atlassian issue tracker used as a business-logic modeling example.
jq
Command-line JSON processor with a Perl-like traversal string syntax.
Klaviyo
Email marketing platform with integrations for e-commerce stores including Spree.
knapsack_pro
Paid server/client solution for evenly distributing parallel RSpec test runs.
Kotlin
JetBrains language for Android and JVM development.
Laravel
PHP web application framework.
Lexer and Parser Generators
Tools that generate lexers and parsers from a grammar description.
libSQL
Open-source SQLite fork by Turso with embedded replicas and managed cloud.
litestream-ruby
Ruby gem wrapping the Litestream Go binary for easy Rails integration.
Logstash
Centralized log aggregation tool built on JRuby.
Metabase
Open-source business-intelligence tool for charts and dashboards over a database.
Midjourney
AI image-generation service.
minisky
Ruby gem for calling AT Protocol HTTP APIs.
Miro
Online collaborative whiteboard used for remote EventStorming.
Mockito
Java mocking framework for unit tests.
MongoDB
Document-oriented NoSQL database.
Net::HTTP
Ruby standard-library HTTP client.
New Relic
Application performance monitoring SaaS.
Next.js
React meta-framework for server-rendered and static web applications.
nginx
High-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy.
OHA
Rust HTTP load-testing CLI; described as 'fancy curl'.
OpenFGA
Open-source authorization-as-a-service based on Google Zanzibar.
Oso
Authorization-as-a-service platform based on Zanzibar-style modeling.
paper_trail
Ruby gem for tracking changes to Active Record models as a version log.
PDS Mover
Web tool for migrating AT Protocol accounts between PDSs.
permit.io
Authorization-as-a-service provider based on Zanzibar-style FGA.
pganalyze
PostgreSQL performance analysis SaaS generating actionable insights.
PgBouncer
Lightweight external connection pooler for PostgreSQL.
Plezi
Ruby real-time web framework built on top of Iodine.
power_assert
Ruby assertion library showing rich failure messages from plain Ruby expressions.
Preact
Lightweight React-compatible alternative optimized for size and speed.
Prop Shaft
Minimal Rails asset-pipeline replacement for Sprockets in the HTTP/2 / import-maps era.
Protocol Buffers
Google's binary serialization format used by gRPC.
Rack::Static
Rack middleware serving static files from a given directory.
Rails 8.1
Upcoming Rails release with major structured-logging improvements.
rbspy
Sampling Ruby profiler used to produce detailed method-time breakdowns.
Redux
JavaScript state container where actions are dispatched to a central store.
Refile
Ruby file-attachment library by CarrierWave's original author.
RequestStore
Older Ruby gem providing per-request thread-local storage.
RuboCop
Ruby static code analyzer and style linter.
ruby-asterisk
Ruby gem for interacting with Asterisk PBX from Ruby.
Ruby Browser Detection Gem
Ruby port of Browserslist-based User-Agent matching for back-end fallback.
RubyGems
Official package registry and distribution system for Ruby libraries.
Ruby Packer
Ruby tool compiling Ruby + your code into a single self-contained binary.
sky feed
Visual feed-builder used by ~80% of Bluesky custom feeds.
Speedscope
Interactive flamegraph viewer used to analyze Ruby profiler output.
Sprockets
Rails asset pipeline gem for concatenating, minifying and fingerprinting assets.
Strada
Unreleased Hotwire component standardizing the web-to-native bridge.
Teabags
Once/DHH-era solution for self-hosted background job processing.
Top Secret LLM
Companion thoughtbot gem for anonymizing LLM interactions.
Traveling Ruby
Pre-built Ruby distribution from the Phusion Passenger team for shipping self-contained Ruby apps.
Turbo Drive
Hotwire primitive that intercepts link clicks and swaps the body element.
Turbo Links
Rails predecessor to Turbo Drive that swapped page HTML on link clicks.
Typhoeus
libcurl-based parallel HTTP client gem for Ruby.
VCR
Ruby gem that records HTTP interactions and replays them in tests.
Wolfram Language
Proprietary symbolic programming language behind Wolfram Alpha and Mathematica.
Workspaces
ClojureScript development tool for mounting live React/Fulcro components.
Zoom
Video conferencing tool used alongside Miro for remote workshops.
Abbrev
Ruby stdlib module for computing unambiguous abbreviations of strings.
acidic_job
Stephen Margheim's gem for implementing transactional, durable workflows inside Active Job.
action_policy
Revised Pundit-style Ruby authorization gem with additional features.
actions/checkout
Pre-made GitHub Action that checks out the repository at the triggering commit.
actions/upload-artifact
GitHub Action archiving files from a job for post-run download.
Active Admin
Rails admin framework auto-generating CRUD UIs against Active Record.
acts_as_api
Rails gem declaring API view representations inside ActiveRecord models.
AES
Symmetric encryption cipher usable to encrypt passwords with a rotatable pepper.
Akamai
Commercial CDN offering caching, compression, and image optimization.
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
AWS hosted media transcoding service.
Angular
Google-backed JavaScript SPA framework.
Apache HTTP Server
Widely-deployed open-source HTTP server.
Asterisk PBX
Open-source private branch exchange for telephony.
awk
Text-processing programming language; one of the first projects to ship automated tests.
BME280
Environmental sensor for temperature, humidity, and pressure.
bump gem
Ruby gem that automates semantic version bumps, commits and tags.
CanCan
Ruby authorization gem centralizing abilities in a single file.
Celluloid
Actor-based concurrency library for Ruby.
chess.com
Major online chess platform, both web and mobile.
chrony
Time synchronization daemon, now default on Ubuntu.
CircleCI
Hosted continuous integration service.
Cloudflare Workflows
Cloudflare's durable workflow product running on Workers/Firecracker VMs.
Codecov
Hosted code-coverage reporting service with GitHub integration.
Codex CLI
OpenAI's terminal coding agent for generating code from natural-language prompts.
CoffeeScript
Deprecated compile-to-JavaScript language once bundled with Rails.
colors.js
Popular npm terminal-styling package deliberately sabotaged by its author.
Coolify
Open-source self-hosted PaaS alternative to Heroku/Vercel.
Cordova
Hybrid mobile framework (formerly PhoneGap) rendering entire UI in HTML/CSS/JS.
core-js
Foundational JavaScript polyfill library downloaded ~30M times per week.
curses
Terminal UI library with a ~30-year-old API.
DBM / SDBM / GDBM
Ruby stdlib embedded string-to-string key/value stores.
Discourse
Open-source Ruby on Rails forum and discussion platform.
Distributed Ruby
Ruby stdlib for exposing Ruby objects to remote processes over DRb.
Django
Python server-side web application framework.
do-agent
Digital Ocean's host metrics agent for CPU, memory, network and alerting.
dry-cli
dry-rb command-line toolkit with rich support for nested commands and documentation.
DuckDB
In-process columnar analytical database, usable from Ruby for fast CSV and OLAP queries.
Durable Objects
AWS/'black pyramid' durable-execution workflow product critiqued in the talk.
Electron
Framework for building desktop apps using web technologies.
ESLint
JavaScript linter with configurable rule sets.
factory_bot_rails
Rails integration for thoughtbot's factory_bot Ruby gem.
Faker.js
npm fake-data library sabotaged by its maintainer over lack of funding.
fast-mcp
Ruby gem for building MCP servers; largely unmaintained.
file (Unix command)
UNIX command that identifies file type from magic bytes.
find-slow script
Custom Ruby script that linearly walks git history to find a non-slow commit.
Fingerprint
Third-party browser/device fingerprinting service for identifying returning users.
fish shell
Friendly interactive shell with readable scripting and command abbreviations.
flag_shih_tzu
Ruby gem packing multiple boolean flags into a single integer column on a model.
floating-ui
JavaScript positioning library for tooltips, popovers and dropdowns.
git bisect
Git command performing binary search through history to find a bad commit.
GitHub Releases
GitHub feature attaching release notes and assets to git tags.
Golf Script
Ruby-macro-based language designed for code golf.
Google Search Console
Google tool for site owners to inspect URLs as Googlebot sees them.
graphql-ruby-fragment-cache
Gem for caching individual fields at the GraphQL API layer.
grpcurl
curl-equivalent CLI client for gRPC services.
gzip
Ubiquitous HTTP compression algorithm.
Houdini
3D/VFX software whose scenes are explicit DAGs of operations on primitives.
HTTP gem
Ruby HTTP client gem with a chainable DSL for making requests.
IronRuby
Ruby implementation for Microsoft's .NET framework.
iTerm2
macOS terminal emulator with scriptable triggers and advanced features.
JFreeChart
Long-lived JVM charting library for 2D/3D charts in PNG, SVG, PDF.
Kerbal Space Program
Spaceflight simulation game recommended during an FP framing analogy.
Leela Chess Zero
Open-source neural-network chess engine inspired by AlphaZero.
left-pad
Tiny npm package whose 2016 yanking broke CI pipelines worldwide.
Lichess
Fully open-source online chess platform written in Scala.
LLVM
Compiler infrastructure project and low-level virtual machine.
log4j
Widely-used Java logging library; subject of a severe 2021 security vulnerability.
macOS say command
macOS built-in command-line text-to-speech utility.
Matrix (Ruby stdlib)
Ruby stdlib matrix class supporting standard matrix operations.
merb
Defunct Ruby web framework that merged with Rails.
mini_magick
Ruby wrapper around the ImageMagick command-line tool.
Mosquitto
Common open-source MQTT broker with CLI pub/sub clients.
npm
JavaScript/Node package registry and manager.
Nuke
The Foundry's compositing application; uses Tcl-described DAGs with native C++ node code.
OpenAI Ada
OpenAI's 1536-dimensional text embedding model.
OpenAI Tokenizer
OpenAI web tool for visualizing and counting tokens in text.
OptionParser
Ruby stdlib CLI option parser.
Outlook
Microsoft's email and calendaring client.
PagerDuty
On-call incident alerting service.
parallel_tests
Ruby gem running tests across multiple processes on one machine.
Parrot VM
Multi-language virtual machine originally created for Perl 6.
PDSls
Web tool for browsing AT Protocol PDSs, accounts and records.
Perl
Dynamic scripting language popular in the late 1990s and 2000s.
Phoenix LiveView
Elixir/Phoenix library for real-time server-rendered UIs over WebSockets.
PHP
Server-side scripting language; Mariusz Gil's primary language.
Polars Ruby
Ruby bindings to the Polars DataFrame library with very fast CSV parsing.
PostHog
Open-source product analytics platform.
Power BI
Microsoft business-intelligence and analytics platform.
Prime (Ruby stdlib)
Ruby stdlib class for prime enumeration and factorization.
Prism
Ruby's modern parser producing ASTs usable for static analysis.
PR Labeler
GitHub Action that auto-labels pull requests from branch names.
PStore
Ruby stdlib persistent object store using Marshal.
PureScript
Strongly-typed functional language compiling to JavaScript.
Python
General-purpose programming language dominant in AI/ML.
QEMU
Open-source machine emulator and virtualizer used on Linux.
Redmine
Open-source Ruby on Rails project management application.
Release Drafter
GitHub Action that auto-generates categorized release notes from merged PRs.
Render
Heroku-like managed platform for web apps and databases.
Representable
Ruby gem for declarative rendering and parsing of object graphs.
Requestly
Browser extension for modifying HTTP requests and response headers.
Restate
Durable-execution workflow system in the Temporal family.
reviewdog
Automated code-review tool posting linter output as PR comments/suggestions.
RSpec Mocks
RSpec's mocking library with allow/expect stubs and temporary message-scoping.
ruby-contracts
Ruby contracts library with runtime type checks and pattern matching.
Ruby CSV
Ruby standard-library CSV parser.
ruby-mqtt
Ruby gem for connecting to MQTT brokers.
ruby-openai
Ruby gem providing a client for the OpenAI API.
ruby/setup-ruby
GitHub Action that installs a Ruby version and configures bundler caching.
Sass
CSS preprocessor once bundled with Rails, largely superseded by native CSS features.
Sequel
Ruby database toolkit and ORM.
SigLIP
Google multimodal embedding model used during wroclove.rb 2025 workshop.
smarter_csv
Popular Ruby gem offering a friendlier and faster alternative to the stdlib CSV parser.
Sonic Pi
Live-coding environment for creating music with Ruby-like code.
Speaker Deck
Online service for hosting and sharing presentation slides.
sqlpkg
Ruby gem bundling commonly useful SQLite extensions.
Standard RB
Opinionated Ruby style checker with zero configuration.
StimulusReflex
Ruby/JS library extending Action Cable for full server-rendered reactive UIs.
Stockfish
Popular open-source chess engine based on neural networks.
stub_any_instance
Ruby gem stubbing methods on any instance of a class within a block.
Sumo Logic
SaaS log management and analytics platform.
Swift
Apple's programming language for iOS/macOS development.
SWT
Standard Widget Toolkit: Eclipse's native-looking cross-platform GUI toolkit.
SXG Validator
Browser extension that validates a page's Signed Exchange implementation.
Sync Space VR
VR collaboration tool for meeting and modeling in a virtual room.
Temporal
Workflow-as-code durable execution platform; recently added official Ruby bindings.
Terraform
HashiCorp infrastructure-as-code tool; a DAG engine with HCL + provider modules.
ThingSpeak
Public cloud service for storing and visualizing IoT sensor data.
Thor
Ruby toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces.
Thruster
Rails-ecosystem HTTP/2 proxy providing asset caching for containerized Rails apps.
TSort
Ruby stdlib topological-sort module with strongly-connected-components support.
TTY toolkit
Suite of Ruby gems for building rich terminal user interfaces.
Twirp
Simpler Protobuf-based RPC framework developed at Twitch.
Ubuntu
Linux distribution used as the base OS for the demo Kamal droplet.
unattended-upgrades
Debian/Ubuntu package for automatic security updates.
VisualVM
Open-source JVM monitoring tool with live GC, heap and thread views.
WebP
Efficient image format by Google with smaller file sizes.
webpagetest.org
Online service for measuring web performance and producing waterfalls.
Yacc
'Yet another compiler compiler' — parser generator.
Zencoder
Hosted cloud video transcoding service.
Android Studio
Google's IDE for Android development.
Cassandra
Distributed wide-column NoSQL database.
Google Analytics
Google's web analytics service.
Kubernetes
Open-source container-orchestration platform; typical infrastructure for microservices.
Xcode
Apple's IDE for iOS and macOS development.