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https://github.com/marcandre/backports

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The latest features of Ruby backported to older versions.


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Last synced: about 18 hours ago

Total Commits: 705
Total Committers: 30
Avg Commits per committer: 23.5
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.082

Commits in past year: 3
Committers in past year: 2
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 1.5
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.333

Name Email Commits
Marc-Andre Lafortune g****b@m****a 647
zverok z****e@g****m 10
Maxime Lapointe h****n@h****m 6
Konstantin Haase k****s@g****m 5
Arto Bendiken a****o@b****t 3
Charles Oliver Nutter h****s@h****m 3
Sylvain Joyeux s****x@m****g 3
Alexey Zapparov a****y@z****m 2
Benoit Daloze e****p@g****m 2
Brent Cook b****b@g****m 2
Stanisław Pitucha s****a@e****m 2
Vladimir Dementyev d****m@g****m 2
Elia Schito e****a@s****e 1
Holger Just h****r@p****m 1
Iain Beeston i****n@g****m 1
Jon Wood j****n@n****k 1
Justin Searls s****s@g****m 1
Nic Benders n****c@n****m 1
Onni Hakala o****i@k****o 1
Peter Goldstein p****n@g****m 1
Rumble Huang b****0@n****w 1
Stefan Schüßler m****l@s****e 1
T. Yama c****n@g****m 1
Thomas Roehr t****r@d****e 1
Thomas Walpole t****e@g****m 1
Timo Schilling t****o@s****o 1
Tyler Knappe t****e@g****m 1
Willibaur w****a@g****m 1
Yousuf Jukaku y****u@l****m 1
jeremyredhead j****d 1

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Last synced: about 18 hours ago

Total issues: 41
Total pull requests: 74
Average time to close issues: about 1 year
Average time to close pull requests: 3 months
Total issue authors: 31
Total pull request authors: 26
Average comments per issue: 2.85
Average comments per pull request: 1.64
Merged pull request: 59
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 0

Past year issues: 1
Past year pull requests: 0
Past year average time to close issues: about 4 hours
Past year average time to close pull requests: N/A
Past year issue authors: 1
Past year pull request authors: 0
Past year average comments per issue: 1.0
Past year average comments per pull request: 0
Past year merged pull request: 0
Past year bot issues: 0
Past year bot pull requests: 0

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Top Issue Authors

  • marcandre (4)
  • zverok (4)
  • headius (3)
  • cielavenir (2)
  • utkarsh2102 (2)
  • rdp (1)
  • ashmaroli (1)
  • swedebugia (1)
  • gintrator (1)
  • bquorning (1)
  • daBee (1)
  • maisumakun (1)
  • mtasaka (1)
  • dkubb (1)
  • sferik (1)

Top Pull Request Authors

  • marcandre (32)
  • zverok (5)
  • MaxLap (5)
  • headius (4)
  • busterb (2)
  • viraptor (2)
  • sos4nt (2)
  • ixti (2)
  • eregon (2)
  • palkan (2)
  • timoschilling (1)
  • jeremyredhead (1)
  • 2maz (1)
  • shugo (1)
  • elia (1)

Top Issue Labels

  • patch needed (3)

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gem.coop: backports

Essential backports that enable many of the nice features of Ruby for earlier versions.

  • Homepage: http://github.com/marcandre/backports
  • Documentation: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/backports/
  • Licenses: MIT
  • Latest release: 3.25.3 (published 10 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-10-08T11:00:38.222Z (about 18 hours ago)
  • Versions: 142
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Downloads: 152,653,245 Total
  • Docker Downloads: 855,374,758
  • Rankings:
    • Dependent repos count: 0.0%
    • Dependent packages count: 0.0%
    • Average: 0.056%
    • Docker downloads count: 0.061%
    • Downloads: 0.164%
  • Maintainers (1)
ubuntu-20.04: ruby-backports

  • Homepage: https://github.com/marcandre/backports
  • Licenses: mit
  • Latest release: 3.16.0-1 (published 8 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-03-13T20:21:46.125Z (7 months ago)
  • Versions: 1
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Rankings:
    • Dependent repos count: 0.0%
    • Dependent packages count: 0.0%
    • Average: 0.54%
    • Stargazers count: 0.964%
    • Forks count: 1.195%
rubygems.org: backports

Essential backports that enable many of the nice features of Ruby for earlier versions.

  • Homepage: http://github.com/marcandre/backports
  • Documentation: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/backports/
  • Licenses: MIT
  • Latest release: 3.25.3 (published 10 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-10-08T11:00:38.114Z (about 18 hours ago)
  • Versions: 142
  • Dependent Packages: 158
  • Dependent Repositories: 43,955
  • Downloads: 152,653,245 Total
  • Docker Downloads: 855,374,758
  • Rankings:
    • Downloads: 0.132%
    • Docker downloads count: 0.137%
    • Dependent repos count: 0.16%
    • Dependent packages count: 0.219%
    • Average: 1.163%
    • Stargazers count: 2.743%
    • Forks count: 3.59%
  • Maintainers (1)
gem.coop: marcandre-backports

Essential backports that enable some of the really nice features of ruby 1.8.7, ruby 1.9 and rails from ruby 1.8.6 and earlier.

  • Homepage: http://github.com/marcandre/backports
  • Documentation: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/marcandre-backports/
  • Licenses: mit
  • Latest release: 1.9.0 (published about 12 years ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-10-08T11:00:38.494Z (about 18 hours ago)
  • Versions: 22
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Downloads: 70,487 Total
  • Rankings:
    • Dependent repos count: 0.0%
    • Dependent packages count: 0.0%
    • Average: 4.009%
    • Downloads: 12.028%
proxy.golang.org: github.com/marcandre/backports

  • Homepage:
  • Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/marcandre/backports#section-documentation
  • Licenses: mit
  • Latest release: v3.25.3+incompatible (published 10 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-10-08T11:00:49.196Z (about 18 hours ago)
  • Versions: 150
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Rankings:
    • Stargazers count: 2.798%
    • Forks count: 3.257%
    • Average: 6.608%
    • Dependent packages count: 9.576%
    • Dependent repos count: 10.802%
rubygems.org: marcandre-backports

Essential backports that enable some of the really nice features of ruby 1.8.7, ruby 1.9 and rails from ruby 1.8.6 and earlier.

  • Homepage: http://github.com/marcandre/backports
  • Documentation: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/marcandre-backports/
  • Licenses: mit
  • Latest release: 1.9.0 (published about 12 years ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-10-08T11:00:38.815Z (about 18 hours ago)
  • Versions: 22
  • Dependent Packages: 2
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Downloads: 70,487 Total
  • Rankings:
    • Stargazers count: 2.544%
    • Forks count: 3.286%
    • Dependent packages count: 5.227%
    • Downloads: 11.297%
    • Average: 13.827%
    • Dependent repos count: 46.782%
debian-11: ruby-backports

  • Homepage: https://github.com/marcandre/backports
  • Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/ruby-backports
  • Licenses: mit
  • Latest release: 3.16.0-1 (published 8 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-03-14T06:21:30.290Z (7 months ago)
  • Versions: 1
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Rankings:
    • Dependent repos count: 0.0%
    • Dependent packages count: 0.0%
    • Average: 100%
gentoo-portage: dev-ruby/backports

Backports of Ruby features for older Ruby

  • Homepage: https://github.com/marcandre/backports
  • Documentation: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-ruby/backports
  • Licenses: MIT
  • Latest release: 3.25.3 (published 6 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-07-29T01:17:17.560Z (2 months ago)
  • Versions: 3
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Rankings:
    • Dependent repos count: 0.0%
    • Dependent packages count: 0.0%
    • Average: 100%
guix: ruby-backports

Backports of the features in newer Ruby versions

  • Homepage: https://github.com/marcandre/backports
  • Documentation: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/ruby-xyz.scm#n3967
  • Licenses: expat
  • Latest release: 3.11.4 (published 7 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-04-27T16:20:03.828Z (5 months ago)
  • Versions: 1
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Rankings:
    • Dependent repos count: 0.0%
    • Dependent packages count: 0.0%
    • Average: 100%
ubuntu-23.04: ruby-backports

  • Homepage: https://github.com/marcandre/backports
  • Licenses: mit
  • Latest release: 3.21.0-2 (published 8 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-03-11T14:10:58.780Z (7 months ago)
  • Versions: 1
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Rankings:
    • Dependent repos count: 0.0%
    • Dependent packages count: 0.0%
    • Average: 100%
ubuntu-23.10: ruby-backports

  • Homepage: https://github.com/marcandre/backports
  • Licenses: mit
  • Latest release: 3.21.0-2 (published 8 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-08-25T16:32:53.666Z (about 1 month ago)
  • Versions: 1
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Rankings:
    • Dependent repos count: 0.0%
    • Dependent packages count: 0.0%
    • Average: 100%
ubuntu-24.10: ruby-backports

  • Homepage: https://github.com/marcandre/backports
  • Licenses: mit
  • Latest release: 3.21.0-2 (published 8 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-03-09T17:03:21.717Z (7 months ago)
  • Versions: 1
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Rankings:
    • Dependent repos count: 0.0%
    • Dependent packages count: 0.0%
    • Average: 100%
debian-13: ruby-backports

  • Homepage: https://github.com/marcandre/backports
  • Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/ruby-backports
  • Licenses: mit
  • Latest release: 3.21.0-2 (published 8 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-03-14T18:06:51.951Z (7 months ago)
  • Versions: 1
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Rankings:
    • Dependent repos count: 0.0%
    • Dependent packages count: 0.0%
    • Average: 100%
debian-12: ruby-backports

  • Homepage: https://github.com/marcandre/backports
  • Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/ruby-backports
  • Licenses: mit
  • Latest release: 3.21.0-2 (published 8 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-03-13T03:27:44.560Z (7 months ago)
  • Versions: 1
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Rankings:
    • Dependent repos count: 0.0%
    • Dependent packages count: 0.0%
    • Average: 100%
debian-10: ruby-backports

  • Homepage: https://github.com/marcandre/backports
  • Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/buster/ruby-backports
  • Licenses: mit
  • Latest release: 3.11.1-2 (published 8 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-03-13T16:07:42.565Z (7 months ago)
  • Versions: 1
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Rankings:
    • Dependent repos count: 0.0%
    • Dependent packages count: 0.0%
    • Average: 100%
ubuntu-22.04: ruby-backports

  • Homepage: https://github.com/marcandre/backports
  • Licenses: mit
  • Latest release: 3.21.0-2 (published 8 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-03-13T13:37:59.304Z (7 months ago)
  • Versions: 1
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Rankings:
    • Dependent repos count: 0.0%
    • Dependent packages count: 0.0%
    • Average: 100%
ubuntu-24.04: ruby-backports

  • Homepage: https://github.com/marcandre/backports
  • Licenses: mit
  • Latest release: 3.21.0-2 (published 8 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-03-06T15:57:22.834Z (7 months ago)
  • Versions: 1
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Rankings:
    • Dependent repos count: 0.0%
    • Dependent packages count: 0.0%
    • Average: 100%
pkgsrc-netbsd-x86_64-10.1-all: devel/ruby-backports

Backports of Ruby features for older ruby

  • Homepage: https://github.com/marcandre/backports/
  • Documentation: https://pkgsrc.se/devel/ruby-backports
  • Licenses: mit
  • Latest release: 3.25.3 (published 6 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-08-10T10:00:44.962Z (about 2 months ago)
  • Versions: 1
  • Dependent Packages: 0
  • Dependent Repositories: 0
  • Rankings:
    • Dependent repos count: 0.0%
    • Dependent packages count: 0.0%
    • Average: 100%

Dependencies

Gemfile rubygems
  • activesupport ~> 3.2.0 development
  • mspec >= 0 development
  • rake >= 0 development
  • rubocop < 1.13.0 development
  • test-unit >= 0 development
.github/workflows/backports.yml actions
  • actions/checkout v2 composite
  • ruby/setup-ruby v1 composite
backports.gemspec rubygems