# petems/tugboat

A command line tool for interacting with your DigitalOcean droplets.

Repository: https://github.com/petems/tugboat
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tugboat
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: digitalocean, tugboat, droplet, ruby
Last push: 2018-03-11T19:09:27+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4890, "days_push": 3097, "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 1438, forks 86 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:43.852780+00:00)

## What it is
Tugboat is a Ruby-based command line tool for managing DigitalOcean droplets, offering commands to create, destroy, and SSH into servers. It predates DigitalOcean's official doctl client and is now maintained only for users who prefer its workflow.

## Use cases
- manage digitalocean droplets from the terminal
- ssh into my digitalocean servers quickly
- create and destroy droplets via cli
- list digitalocean images and regions
- script digitalocean server management
- alternative to doctl for digitalocean

## When to choose
- you prefer tugboat's workflow over doctl
- you work in a Ruby environment and want a gem-based tool
- you need a lightweight CLI for common droplet operations

## When to avoid
- you want official support and the latest DigitalOcean API features
- you need a actively developed tool with recent releases
- you use other cloud providers besides DigitalOcean

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, cloud, developer-tools, ssh
- domain: cloud-computing, developer-tools
- platform: cli, ruby, cross-platform
- tags: digitalocean, droplets, cloud-management, ruby-gem, command-line, devops

## Member repositories
- petems/tugboat (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:43.852780+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 2026-08-30T04:36:41.393018+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/petems/tugboat (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:43.852780+00:00, sha 253d8f87975f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.