# googleapis/google-cloud-ruby

Google Cloud Client Library for Ruby

Repository: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/google-cloud-ruby
Homepage: https://googleapis.github.io/google-cloud-ruby/
Language: Ruby
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T19:12:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4478, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 5594}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1424, forks 578 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:41.361592+00:00)

## What it is
The official Google Cloud Client Library for Ruby, a monorepo of idiomatic RubyGems for calling Google Cloud Platform APIs such as Cloud Storage, Datastore, and Pub/Sub. Most clients are auto-generated via the GAPIC generator, with OAuth 2.0 authentication and high-level abstractions built in.

## Use cases
- access google cloud storage from a ruby app
- authenticate to gcp apis with oauth in ruby
- use cloud datastore from ruby
- publish messages to pub/sub from ruby
- integrate google cloud services into a rails application
- call google cloud apis without writing boilerplate http code

## When to choose
- you are building a Ruby application that needs to talk to Google Cloud Platform services
- you want officially maintained, idiomatic Ruby clients with automatic authentication
- you prefer high-level abstractions over hand-rolled REST calls

## When to avoid
- you use a language other than Ruby
- you need a Google API not covered by this library (check google-api-ruby-client instead)
- you want a lightweight CLI for managing GCP resources rather than programmatic access

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: sdk, auth, http-client, database-driver, developer-tools
- domain: cloud-computing, apis, developer-tools, backend
- platform: ruby, cross-platform
- tags: google-cloud, gcp, client-libraries, rubygems, gapic, api-clients

## Member repositories
- googleapis/google-cloud-ruby (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:41.361592+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 2026-08-30T04:37:35.227497+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-ruby (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:41.361592+00:00, sha 5714807de257)
  - homepage: https://googleapis.github.io/google-cloud-ruby/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:49:30.755955+00:00, sha dc9779c005fa)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.