# rubber/rubber

A capistrano/rails plugin that makes it easy to deploy/manage/scale to various service providers, including EC2, DigitalOcean, vSphere, and bare metal servers.

Repository: https://github.com/rubber/rubber
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rubber
Homepage: http://rubber.io/
Language: Ruby
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2020-11-23T09:52:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6665, "days_push": 2109, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1451, forks 242 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:45.977828+00:00)

## What it is
Rubber is a Capistrano/Rails plugin that automates deploying, managing, and scaling multi-instance Rails applications across providers like Amazon EC2, DigitalOcean, vSphere, and bare metal servers. It handles provisioning, configuration, and scaling of complex multi-instance deployments.

## Use cases
- deploy a rails app to ec2
- provision multi-instance rails deployments
- scale rails app across cloud providers
- automate server provisioning for rails
- manage deployments on digitalocean
- deploy rails to bare metal servers

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy Rails app deployed with Capistrano
- you need multi-instance Rails deployments on EC2 or DigitalOcean
- you want automated provisioning and configuration of Rails servers

## When to avoid
- you use modern Rails deployment tools like Docker or Kamal
- you deploy non-Ruby applications
- you need actively maintained tooling with recent releases

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: deployment, infrastructure-as-code, configuration-management, cloud
- domain: cloud-computing, web-development, infrastructure-as-code
- platform: cloud, cli
- tags: capistrano, rails, ec2, digitalocean, provisioning, ruby, devops, linux

## Member repositories
- rubber/rubber (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:45.977828+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 2026-08-30T04:35:52.602276+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rubber/rubber (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:45.977828+00:00, sha e2e04270adfd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.