Projects Using Rice¶

Rice is used by many Ruby gems to create high-performance bindings to C++ libraries. Below are notable projects organized by category.

Computer Vision¶

opencv-ruby¶

Ruby bindings for OpenCV4 based on its C++ API. Almost all of OpenCV's API is exposed.

GitHub: cfis/opencv-ruby

Machine Learning¶

torch.rb¶

Deep learning for Ruby, powered by LibTorch (PyTorch's C++ library).

GitHub: ankane/torch.rb
RubyGems: torch-rb

fastText¶

Efficient text classification and representation learning for Ruby.

GitHub: ankane/fastText-ruby
RubyGems: fasttext

XGBoost¶

High performance gradient boosting for Ruby.

GitHub: ankane/xgboost-ruby
RubyGems: xgboost

LightGBM¶

High performance gradient boosting for Ruby.

GitHub: ankane/lightgbm-ruby
RubyGems: lightgbm

Dimensionality Reduction¶

ruby-umappp¶

Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) for Ruby.

GitHub: kojix2/ruby-umappp
RubyGems: umappp

ruby-qdtsne¶

QdTSNE dimensionality reduction for Ruby.

GitHub: kojix2/ruby-qdtsne

Similarity Search and Clustering¶

Faiss¶

Efficient similarity search and clustering for Ruby, using Facebook's Faiss library.

GitHub: ankane/faiss-ruby
RubyGems: faiss

Topic Modeling¶

Tomoto¶

High performance topic modeling for Ruby with support for LDA, HDP, and Dynamic Topic Models.

GitHub: ankane/tomoto-ruby
RubyGems: tomoto

Anomaly Detection¶

IsoTree¶

Outlier/anomaly detection for Ruby using Isolation Forest.

GitHub: ankane/isotree-ruby
RubyGems: isotree

OutlierTree¶

Explainable outlier/anomaly detection for Ruby.

GitHub: ankane/outliertree-ruby
RubyGems: outliertree

Operations Research¶

OR-Tools¶

Operations research tools for Ruby including constraint programming, linear programming, routing, and scheduling.

GitHub: ankane/or-tools-ruby
RubyGems: or-tools

Scientific Computing¶

ruby-alglib¶

ALGLIB numerical analysis and data processing library for Ruby.

GitHub: kojix2/ruby-alglib
RubyGems: alglib4

numo.hpp¶

C++ header for integrating Numo (Ruby's numerical array library) with Rice.

GitHub: ankane/numo.hpp

Data Structures¶

DataSketches¶

Sketch data structures for Ruby for approximate computations on streaming data.

GitHub: ankane/datasketches-ruby
RubyGems: datasketches

Robotics¶

Rock base-types¶

C++ and Ruby definition of base types for the Robot Construction Kit, including Eigen bindings.

GitHub: rock-core/base-types

Interactive Computing¶

xeus-ruby¶

Jupyter kernel for Ruby built on the xeus framework.

GitHub: IsabelParedes/xeus-ruby

Parsing¶

antlr4-native¶

Create native Ruby extensions from ANTLR4 grammars for high-performance parsing.

GitHub: camertron/antlr4-native-rb
RubyGems: antlr4-native

Geospatial¶

Ruby-Mapnik¶

Ruby bindings for Mapnik, an open source toolkit for developing mapping applications.

GitHub: mapnik/Ruby-Mapnik
RubyGems: ruby_mapnik

Media¶

mediainfo-ruby¶

MediaInfo library bindings using the C++ shared libraries directly.

GitHub: hackerdude/mediainfo-ruby
RubyGems: mediainfo-ruby

Phone Numbers¶

gphone¶

Ruby bindings to Google's libphonenumber for parsing, validating, and formatting phone numbers.

GitHub: elcamino/gphone
RubyGems: gphone

A/B Testing¶

Field Test¶

A/B testing for Rails.

GitHub: ankane/field_test
RubyGems: field_test

Code Generation¶

ruby-bindgen¶

Generates FFI and Rice bindings from C and C++ header files using libclang.

GitHub: ruby-rice/ruby-bindgen
RubyGems: ruby_bindgen

Rb++¶

Uses rbgccxml and Rice to automatically generate Ruby extensions around C++ source and libraries.

GitHub: jasonroelofs/rbplusplus
RubyGems: rbplusplus

More Projects¶

View the complete list of gems that depend on Rice on RubyGems.org.

Add Your Project¶

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