# fog/fog

The Ruby cloud services library.

Repository: https://github.com/fog/fog
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fog
Homepage: http://fog.github.io
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-11-19T13:42:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6316, "days_push": 652, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4297, forks 1448 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:41.532773+00:00)

## What it is
fog is the Ruby cloud services library providing a unified interface to compute, storage, DNS, and other cloud services across many providers like AWS. It offers high-level collections for easy cross-provider work, low-level requests for power users, and built-in mocks for testing.

## Use cases
- manage AWS EC2 servers from Ruby
- switch cloud providers without rewriting code
- avoid vendor lock-in when working with cloud services
- mock cloud API calls in tests
- script cloud storage and DNS operations in Ruby
- bootstrap cloud usage from an interactive console

## When to choose
- you need a unified Ruby API across multiple cloud providers
- you want to avoid vendor lock-in in a Ruby application
- you need mock support for testing cloud integrations
- your provider lacks a metagem and you need the full collection

## When to avoid
- you only use a single provider with an available metagem like fog-aws
- you need a provider fog does not support
- you want a modern actively developed cloud SDK

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cloud, sdk, http-client, developer-tools
- domain: cloud-computing, developer-tools, apis, infrastructure-as-code
- platform: ruby, cross-platform
- tags: cloud-providers, compute, storage, dns, multi-provider, metagems, mocking

## Member repositories
- fog/fog (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:41.532773+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:21:51.805961+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fog/fog (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:41.532773+00:00, sha 53026625e1f9)
  - homepage: http://fog.github.io (fetched 2026-08-29T09:11:00.092187+00:00, sha 8a7a031ed71c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.