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.

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.

Catches mail and serves it through a dream. MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server that catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface. Run mailcatcher, set your favorite app to deliver to smtp://127.0.0.1:1025 instead of your default SMTP server, then check it out to see the mail that's arrived so far. Shows HTML, Plain Text and Source version of messages, as applicable. Rewrites HTML enabling display of embedded, inline images/etc and opens links in a new window. Command-line options to override the default SMTP/HTTP IP and port settings. Mail appears instantly if your browser supports WebSockets, otherwise updates every thirty seconds. Sendmail-analogue command, catchmail, makes using mailcatcher from PHP a lot easier. Encodings are difficult. MailCatcher does not completely support utf-8 straight over the wire, you must use a mail library that encodes things properly based on SMTP server capabilities.

LimeChat is an IRC client written on RubyCocoa.

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.

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)

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 Skype SourceForge project is the public repository for Skype-related open-source projects including SkypeWeb and Skype API implementations. Do you have a SkypeWeb or SkypeAPI project you'd like to share? Get in touch!

OJAB: Open-source Jabber Automated Bot.

TigerEvents is a web-based event announcement system targeted to promote upcoming and ongoing events to large communities such as university campuses, companies or the general public.

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.

imap_tools consists of three programs: imap_search, imap_filter and imap_rename. All programs run from your PC against your imap server. No need to install any server side software. imap_filter provides a way to write easy filter rules. Written in Ruby.

Phraze generates a list of combinations of valid words that correspond to the letters on a standard telephone keypad. That is, given a phone number, Phraze produces the combinations (phrases) of valid words that the numbers convert to.

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.

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.

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.