Open Source Ruby Communications Software for Windows

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

EffDom is an alternativ or complement to XML. EffDom is focused on compact datasize and efficient parsing which makes it well suited for embedded and mobile applications. Please visit www.effdom.org.

Etch is a cross-platform, language- and transport-independent framework for building and consuming network services. With Etch, service development and consumption becomes no more difficult than library development and consumption.

A fast, sleak, and extensible IRC bot, written in Ruby. Using plugins to provide all functionality wanted.

The Expertiza project is software to create reusable learning objects through peer review. It also supports team projects, and the submission of almost any document type, including URLs and wiki pages.