Open Source Ruby Package Managers

CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects. It has over 82 thousand libraries and is used in over 3 million apps. CocoaPods can help you scale your projects elegantly. CocoaPods is built with Ruby and is installable with the default Ruby available on macOS. We recommend you use the default ruby. Using the default Ruby install can require you to use sudo when installing gems. Further installation instructions are in the guides. CocoaPods manages library dependencies for your Xcode projects. The dependencies for your projects are specified in a single text file called a Podfile. CocoaPods will resolve dependencies between libraries, fetch the resulting source code, then link it together in an Xcode workspace to build your project. Ultimately the goal is to improve discoverability of, and engagement in, third party open-source libraries by creating a more centralised ecosystem.

Gel is a modern gem manager for Ruby, offering a lightweight alternative to Bundler. It focuses on performance and simplicity, providing faster installation and locking of gems. By streamlining dependency management, Gel enhances the efficiency of Ruby project development.​

Homebrew-core is the canonical formula repository for Homebrew, the macOS (and Linux) package manager, containing the Ruby “formulae” that describe how to fetch, build, and install thousands of open-source packages. Each formula encodes metadata, dependencies, build instructions, and tests so Homebrew can produce reproducible bottles (prebuilt binaries) or source builds across supported macOS and Linux environments. The repo is the operational center for package maintenance: maintainers review updates, address compatibility patches, and manage version migrations and deprecations to keep the ecosystem healthy. When users install or upgrade packages, Homebrew leverages the core formulae to resolve dependencies, perform sandboxed builds, and run post-install hooks, making development toolchains and end-user apps easy to provision.

Homebrew formulae to install zathura and plugins on Mac OS X. The OSX native integration (dock, window manager) has been added to the develop branch of zathura.