https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy
browser commandline launchy ruby
Score: 31.019143599150283
Last synced: about 22 hours ago
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A helper for launching cross-platform applications in a fire and forget manner.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy
- Owner: copiousfreetime
- License: isc
- Created: 2008-06-22T03:36:06.000Z (over 18 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-02-21T16:30:15.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-11-07T23:06:33.361Z (1 day ago)
- Topics: browser, commandline, launchy, ruby
- Language: Ruby
- Homepage: https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy
- Size: 480 KB
- Stars: 797
- Watchers: 11
- Forks: 61
- Open Issues: 5
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: HISTORY.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
Owner metadata:
- Name: Jeremy Hinegardner
- Login: copiousfreetime
- Email:
- Kind: user
- Description:
- Website: http://copiousfreetime.org
- Location: Boulder, CO
- Twitter:
- Company: Copious Free Time, LLC
- Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11256?v=4
- Repositories: 118
- Last Synced at: 2026-11-07T23:06:43.937Z
- Profile URL: https://github.com/copiousfreetime
GitHub Events
Total
- Create event: 8
- Delete event: 6
- Issue comment event: 12
- Issues event: 8
- Pull request event: 10
- Push event: 23
- Watch event: 15
- Total: 82
Last Year
- Issue comment event: 1
- Watch event: 2
- Total: 3
Committers metadata
Last synced: 1 day ago
Total Commits: 487
Total Committers: 21
Avg Commits per committer: 23.19
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.053
Commits in past year: 0
Committers in past year: 0
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 0.0
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.0
| Name | Commits | |
|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Hinegardner | j****y@c****g | 461 |
| Chris Schmich | s****h@g****m | 3 |
| Mark J. Lehman | s****7 | 3 |
| Postmodern | p****3@g****m | 2 |
| Suraj N. Kurapati | s****u@g****m | 2 |
| Daniel Farina | d****l@h****m | 1 |
| Jack Turnbull | g****t@j****k | 1 |
| Mike Farmer | m****f@k****m | 1 |
| Nicolas Leger | n****r@n****m | 1 |
| git-darcs-import | 1 | |
| Bogdan Gusiev | a****o@g****m | 1 |
| Colin Bell | c****l@b****g | 1 |
| Corey Haines | c****s@g****m | 1 |
| Gioele Barabucci | g****e@s****t | 1 |
| Jeremy Moritz | j****y@j****m | 1 |
| Josef Šimánek | j****k@g****m | 1 |
| Marc Rohloff | m****c@m****m | 1 |
| Mariusz Pietrzyk | w****t@w****l | 1 |
| Miquel Rodríguez Telep / Michael Rodríguez-Torrent | m****l@d****k | 1 |
| Stephen Judkins | s****s@g****m | 1 |
| piruty | 8****y | 1 |
Issue and Pull Request metadata
Last synced: 1 day ago
Total issues: 77
Total pull requests: 49
Average time to close issues: 9 months
Average time to close pull requests: 2 months
Total issue authors: 66
Total pull request authors: 28
Average comments per issue: 3.17
Average comments per pull request: 1.16
Merged pull request: 33
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 1
Past year issues: 0
Past year pull requests: 2
Past year average time to close issues: N/A
Past year average time to close pull requests: N/A
Past year issue authors: 0
Past year pull request authors: 1
Past year average comments per issue: 0
Past year average comments per pull request: 0.0
Past year merged pull request: 0
Past year bot issues: 0
Past year bot pull requests: 0
Top Issue Authors
- copiousfreetime (6)
- gioele (3)
- rubyFeedback (2)
- schmich (2)
- Rubioli (2)
- cefn (2)
- JamieKD-RIFT (1)
- steakknife (1)
- dmersiowsky (1)
- dekhaus (1)
- dpisarewski (1)
- ciembor (1)
- Aufree (1)
- goranvrbaski (1)
- canvural (1)
Top Pull Request Authors
- copiousfreetime (18)
- OskarEichler (2)
- stephenjudkins (2)
- simi (2)
- Spone (2)
- bruceadams (1)
- supremebeing7 (1)
- infertux (1)
- coreyhaines (1)
- bparanj (1)
- jackturnbull (1)
- fdr (1)
- JamieKD-RIFT (1)
- gioele (1)
- jeremymoritz (1)
Top Issue Labels
- bug (9)
- feature (7)
- documentation (1)
Top Pull Request Labels
- bug (3)
- feature (1)
- confirm that it is fixed (1)
- dependencies (1)
Package metadata
- Total packages: 14
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Total downloads:
- rubygems: 614,186,648 total
- Total docker downloads: 1,143,838,914
- Total dependent packages: 1,040 (may contain duplicates)
- Total dependent repositories: 94,948 (may contain duplicates)
- Total versions: 126
- Total maintainers: 1
gem.coop: launchy
Launchy is helper class for launching cross-platform applications in a fire and forget manner. There are application concepts (browser, email client, etc) that are common across all platforms, and they may be launched differently on each platform. Launchy is here to make a common approach to launching external applications from within ruby programs.
- Homepage: https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy
- Documentation: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/launchy/
- Licenses: ISC
- Latest release: 3.1.1 (published over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-11-07T23:08:00.752Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 45
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
- Downloads: 307,093,324 Total
- Docker Downloads: 571,919,457
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 0.063%
- Downloads: 0.091%
- Docker downloads count: 0.162%
- Maintainers (1)
debian-13: ruby-launchy
- Homepage: https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy
- Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/ruby-launchy
- Licenses: isc
- Latest release: 2.5.2-1 (published 9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-14T18:10:36.821Z (8 months ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 0.366%
- Stargazers count: 0.53%
- Forks count: 0.935%
rubygems.org: launchy
Launchy is helper class for launching cross-platform applications in a fire and forget manner. There are application concepts (browser, email client, etc) that are common across all platforms, and they may be launched differently on each platform. Launchy is here to make a common approach to launching external applications from within ruby programs.
- Homepage: https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy
- Documentation: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/launchy/
- Licenses: ISC
- Latest release: 3.1.1 (published over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-11-07T23:01:25.504Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 45
- Dependent Packages: 1,040
- Dependent Repositories: 94,948
- Downloads: 307,093,324 Total
- Docker Downloads: 571,919,457
-
Rankings:
- Dependent packages count: 0.047%
- Downloads: 0.091%
- Dependent repos count: 0.122%
- Docker downloads count: 0.23%
- Average: 1.011%
- Stargazers count: 2.112%
- Forks count: 3.467%
- Maintainers (1)
proxy.golang.org: github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy
- Homepage:
- Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy#section-documentation
- Licenses: isc
- Latest release: v3.1.1+incompatible (published over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-11-07T23:01:27.069Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 24
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 2.258%
- Forks count: 3.239%
- Average: 6.469%
- Dependent packages count: 9.576%
- Dependent repos count: 10.802%
gentoo-portage: dev-ruby/launchy
Helper class for launching cross-platform applications
- Homepage: https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy
- Documentation: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-ruby/launchy
- Licenses: ISC
- Latest release: 3.1.1 (published 7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-07-28T01:17:17.055Z (3 months ago)
- Versions: 2
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
-
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
guix: ruby-launchy
Ruby helper class for launching applications
- Homepage: https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy
- Documentation: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/ruby-xyz.scm#n13788
- Licenses: isc
- Latest release: 2.5.2 (published 8 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-04-27T16:21:15.550Z (7 months ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
debian-11: ruby-launchy
- Homepage: https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy
- Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/ruby-launchy
- Licenses: isc
- Latest release: 2.5.0-3 (published 9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-14T07:16:13.813Z (8 months ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
debian-12: ruby-launchy
- Homepage: https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy
- Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/ruby-launchy
- Licenses: isc
- Latest release: 2.5.0-3 (published 9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-13T23:44:28.790Z (8 months ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
ubuntu-23.04: ruby-launchy
- Homepage: https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy
- Licenses: isc
- Latest release: 2.5.0-3 (published 9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-12T07:03:31.988Z (8 months ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
ubuntu-24.10: ruby-launchy
- Homepage: https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy
- Licenses: isc
- Latest release: 2.5.2-1 (published 9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-09T17:07:18.276Z (8 months ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
pkgsrc-netbsd-x86_64-10.1-all: misc/ruby-launchy
Ruby class for launching applications
- Homepage: https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy
- Documentation: https://pkgsrc.se/misc/ruby-launchy
- Licenses: isc
- Latest release: 2.5.2 (published 7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-05-27T08:25:58.947Z (6 months ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
ubuntu-23.10: ruby-launchy
- Homepage: https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy
- Status: removed
- Licenses: isc
- Latest release: 2.5.0-3 (published 9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-13T21:26:14.715Z (about 2 months ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
ubuntu-22.04: ruby-launchy
- Homepage: https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy
- Licenses: isc
- Latest release: 2.5.0-3 (published 9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-13T22:38:43.539Z (8 months ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Dependencies
- addressable 2.8.0
- docile 1.4.0
- jar-dependencies 0.4.1
- launchy 2.5.1
- minitest 5.15.0
- psych 4.0.3
- public_suffix 4.0.7
- rake 13.0.1
- rdoc 6.4.0
- simplecov 0.21.2
- simplecov-html 0.12.3
- simplecov_json_formatter 0.1.4
- stringio 3.0.1