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24 alternatives to Artoo

Framework for physical devices written in Ruby

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Artoo launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1YA
   Yeah, a Ruby video game framework▲54

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2OA
   Omniref - a better search site for Ruby documentation▲110

   2013 · omniref.com · its alternatives →

3. 3BR
   BestRuby – Ruby Tricks, Idioms, Refactorings and Best Practices▲92

   2015 · best-ruby.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   RubySteps▲66

   A daily coding practice.

   2014 · its alternatives →

5. 5RT
   Rb – Turns Ruby into a command line utility▲232

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

6. 6AB
   A backend agnostic Ruby framework for building reactive desktop apps▲92

   For a year or two I've been building a UI library with the aim of making desktop applications fun and easy to write. It is currently written in C/Ruby and uses a custom tree sitter grammar to describe templates. Features include: composable UI components, template directives, event and prop handling, slots, styles and automation capabilities baked in. One of the goals of the project is privileging easy to write custom components via a drawing API over providing a fixed set of components. At the time of this writing it should install on Windows, Mac, and Linux, but sometimes it is hard…

   2025 · codeberg.org · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Lotus▲3

   A complete web framework for Ruby

   2015 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Tinycon▲197

   A small library for manipulating the favicon

   2014 · its alternatives →

9. 9VA
   Vesper, a plug and play Ruby web framework (Sinatra + Rack + Plugins)▲40

   2012 · vesperapps.com · its alternatives →

10. 10AJ
    A JavaScript interpreter written in Ruby▲75

    2012 · github.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    SparkFun▲77

    Bits and Pieces to Make Electronics Projects Possible

    2014 · its alternatives →

12. 12EA
    Electrino, a featherweight API-compatible alternative to Electron▲99

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Authorea▲94

    GitHub for scientific works

    2014 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Prelang▲82

    Automatic Rails Development

    2014 · its alternatives →

15. 15OA
    Octotrack – automatic dependency and security manager for Ruby apps▲46

    2017 · octotrack.com · its alternatives →

16. 16CA
    CattlePi automated setup and updates for Raspberry Pi(s)▲60

    2018 · cattlepi.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Littlebits▲93

    Programmable modules that snap together

    2013 · its alternatives →

18. 18KD
    Kontena – Docker Platform Written in Ruby▲63

    2015 · kontena.io · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Flinto▲52

    Super easy tool for prototyping

    2014 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Calaos▲88

    Open source home automation

    2015 · its alternatives →

21. 21AC
    A CLI for Google distributed as a ruby gem▲34

    2012 · kerrick.github.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Patternry▲65

    A tool for building living UI libraries

    2014 · its alternatives →

23. 23NB
    Node bindings for libui, a native UI library for Unix, OS X and Windows▲28

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24RA
    RubyProctor, a website for developing Rubocop rules▲18

    2017 · rubyproctor.com · its alternatives →

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