Open Source Ruby Frameworks

ZK is an open-source Java framework for building modern web and mobile applications. It enables developers to create rich, interactive UIs using only Java — no JavaScript required. With 200+ Ajax-powered components, event-driven architecture, and support for popular technologies like Spring, Java EE, and JSP/JSF, ZK makes it simple to deliver powerful and user-friendly web applications.

A J2EE Web Dev Framework, Struts style MVC, Event Driven like JSF and Ajax-enabled Client Scripting like YUI, Fine grained event binding, access to server variables in JavaScript & Webpages, Easy integration with Struts, No custom tags & No complex API.

Arachni is an Open Source, feature-full, modular, high-performance Ruby framework aimed towards helping penetration testers and administrators evaluate the security of web applications.

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 JavaScript presentation layer framework. It proposes a complete separation of view logic and design. Its components are designed by its role and not by its screen appearance, reducing drastically the API.

Laika analyzes and reports on the interoperability capabilities of EHR systems. This includes the testing for certification of EHR software products and networks.

Framework for making Windows applications that are one .exe file in AutoHotKey_L,C++,C#, VB.NET,Java,Groovy,Common Lisp,Nemerle,Ruby,Python,PHP,Lua,Tcl,Perl,Jint,S#,WSH VBScript,HTML/JavaScript/CSS,COM, PowerShell without compiling . For .NET 4.

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Pakada takes new paths in creating and maintaining dynamic web content. It doesn't provide hardcoded modules, it let's you build them yourself within your browser, though it still ships with a handful of presets. Pakada is based on Ruby on Rails.

Prudence is an open source container and framework for scalable web frontends and network services, based on proven REST principles. It comes in several flavors: Python, Ruby, Clojure, JavaScript, PHP and Groovy.

Ruby Hail is Rack-based nano framework. It's the fastest-by-design Rack-based framework. It requires less learning (besides Rack, you suppose to know it by this time) than any other framework. It works great for simple dynamic web-sites, single-page web-apps and microservices.

Pirate is a programmable API for developing complex, extensible JavaScript objects and modules.

scriptHelper is a Java library allowing a simple integration between Java code and various script languages. This library also allows to debug these scripts in the context of a Java program.