fastruby/fast-ruby vs homebrew/homebrew-cask
homebrew/homebrew-cask shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, homebrew-cask shows healthier maintenance signals than fast-ruby. homebrew-cask rates Healthy overall while fast-ruby rates Mixed. fast-ruby last saw a commit 6 months ago with 39+ active contributors, while homebrew-cask last saw a commit 1 month ago with 4+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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fastruby/fast-ruby →
Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
no license — legally unclear; no tests detected
no license — can't legally use code; no tests detected
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 4mo ago
- ✓39+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 16% of recent commits)
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
homebrew/homebrew-cask →
Healthy across all four use cases
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 53% of recent commits
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓BSD-2-Clause licensed
- ✓CI configured
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| fast-ruby | homebrew-cask | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 5,732 | 22,008 |
| Last commit | 6mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | — | BSD-2-Clause |
| Open issues | 47 | 32 |
| Has tests | — | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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