# jfelchner/ruby-progressbar

Ruby/ProgressBar is a text progress bar library for Ruby.

Repository: https://github.com/jfelchner/ruby-progressbar
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ruby-progressbar
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: progress-bar, progressbar, progressbars, cli, progress, terminal
Last push: 2026-01-08T05:03:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 60/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 61, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6407, "days_push": 237, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1594, forks 130 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:09.016129+00:00)

## What it is
Ruby/ProgressBar is a text-based progress bar library for Ruby with zero dependencies. It renders advancing progress indicators in the terminal for long-running operations.

## Use cases
- show a progress bar for a long-running ruby script
- display download or batch processing progress in the terminal
- add progress indication to a ruby cli tool
- track loop iteration progress in ruby
- show percentage completion in console output

## When to choose
- you need a mature, dependency-free progress bar in Ruby
- you want a well-tested library used widely in the Ruby ecosystem
- you need simple terminal progress output with minimal setup

## When to avoid
- you need GUI or web-based progress indicators
- you are not working in Ruby
- you need rich TUI dashboards rather than a single progress line

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: ruby, cli, cross-platform
- tags: progress-bar, terminal-output, ruby-gem, command-line

## Member repositories
- jfelchner/ruby-progressbar (main) score 60

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:09.016129+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 2026-08-30T03:54:11.852706+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jfelchner/ruby-progressbar (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:09.016129+00:00, sha 1acad39ba072)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.