I know these:
Chef
Puppet
Homebrew
[Vagrant][1]
[Cucumber][2]
[Travis CI][3]
Ruby is taking over the sysadmin/deployment arena
[1]: https://www.vagrantup.com/
[2]: https://cucumber.io/
[3]: https://travis-ci.org/
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Not quite as famous, but a very comprehensive backup solution as a Ruby dsl GitHub - backup/backup: Easy full stack backup operations on UNIX-like systems.
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my next pet project 
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Anything else? Now I’m looking at this list and I’m upset. It’s not much.
There are plenty. I may repeat some already mentioned.
Liquid markup language
Capybara
Ruboto
Watir
Rspec
Minitest
Cucumber
Rack
Bundler
RubyGems
Homebrew
ActiveRecord
Thor
Rubinius
JRuby
Vagrant
t
Puppet
Slim
Haml
Resque
Sidekiq
RubyMotion
Celluloid
Shoes
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Yeap. The question was about non-web. And I think there is no place for JRuby and Rubinius. RubyMotion isn’t so famous I suppose.
But +1 by me for:
- Slim
- Haml
And SASS! But… They are connected with web software. oops
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I can use everyone of those for non-web. What do you mean no place for JRuby? It just reached version 9000 recently and is very relevant.
Also what’s famous is very relative. For example, my gem PolyBelongs to was published on two well known Ruby mailing lists. So I consider it my famous gem.
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I can use everyone of those for non-web.
You can say almost about anything like this.
What do you mean no place for JRuby?
it’s an implementation of the Ruby. Do you think that it’s a famous non-web software? Sure it’s a software, it’s non-web and it’s quite famous. But it’s famous just for Ruby programmers. Everyone knows Vagrant, Homebrew and Chef. But outside Ruby world not so many people have heard of JRuby (I’m telling you like a person who works with Ruby among 30 C# programmers in one room).
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