rubygems.org
RubyGems
Who runs RubyGems, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest software package registry alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- NuGet
Measured from RubyGems’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit RubyGems01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs RubyGems
RubyGems rubygems.org
Wikidata: package manager for Ruby
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What RubyGems tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to RubyGems
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to RubyGems, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
NuGet Gallery | Home
The NuGet Gallery is the central package repository for NuGet, the package manager for .NET.
Very close - 02
crates.io: Rust Package Registry
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
Very close - 03
package manager for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment
Very close - 04
Bundler: The best way to manage a Ruby application's gems
Very close - 05
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - www.cpan.org
Perl package repository
Very close - 06
JSR: the JavaScript Registry
JSR is the open-source package registry for modern JavaScript. JSR natively supports TypeScript, and works with all JS runtimes and package managers.
Very close - 07
Welcome to Python.org
The official home of the Python Programming Language
Very close - 08
MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
Very close - 09
Search the CPAN - metacpan.org
open source search engine for the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
Close - 10
The Perl Programming Language - www.perl.org
The Perl Programming Language at Perl.org. Links and other helpful resources for new and experienced Perl programmers.
Very close - 11
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Very close - 12
Welcome – Gentoo Linux
The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.
Very close - 13
Debian -- The Universal Operating System
Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.
Very close - 14
The NetBSD Project
Very close - 15
Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!
Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.
Very close - 16
sourceware.org: Free software! Get your fresh hot free software!
Sourceware free software
Close - 17
RubyDoc.info: Documenting RubyGems, Stdlib, and GitHub Projects
Documenting RubyGems, Stdlib, and GitHub Projects
Very close - 18
Front Page — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
organization supporting the free software movement
Close - 19
TYPO3 Project and Governance — Democratic Open Source - TYPO3 Project
The TYPO3 project is a volunteer community backed by a not-for-profit member association, and a fully-owned service company.
Close - 20
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles RubyGems’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones RubyGems uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what RubyGems adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 28 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to RubyGems’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Titillium+Web:ital,wght@0,200;0,300;0,400;0,600;…
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080041-BER
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com -all
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=GXpUUS49HB9rYWZEmxJFtZdS61weLMlf91w9D…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: AuesbWQ9MCDMmC1lbDlw25RJzyqWOcDYpuaCjgPxEZY
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- Fastly 7/20
- nginx · not on rubygems.org 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on rubygems.org 6/20
- GlobalSign 5/20
- Bootstrap · not on rubygems.org 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on rubygems.org 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on rubygems.org 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on rubygems.org 4/20
- jQuery · not on rubygems.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on rubygems.org 3/20
- PHP · not on rubygems.org 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on rubygems.org 2/20
- Mailgun · not on rubygems.org 2/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on rubygems.org 2/20