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Ruby progressbar

Ruby/ProgressBar is a text progress bar library for Ruby.

From jfelchner·Updated May 30, 2026·View on GitHub·

Ruby/ProgressBar ================================================================================ The project is written primarily in Ruby, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2009. It has gained significant community traction with 1,597 stars and 131 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: cli, progress, progress-bar, progressbar, progressbars.

Ruby/ProgressBar

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The ultimate text progress bar library for Ruby! It'll SMASH YOU OVER THE
HEAD
with a PURE RUSH of progress bar excitement!

Don't miss out on what all the kids are talking about! If you want everyone to
know that your gem or app can survive in the cage then YOU WANT
RUBY-PROGRESSBAR!

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It's Better Than The Other 186,312 Progress Bar Libraries Because

Basic Usage

Creation

It's simple to get started:

ruby
progressbar = ProgressBar.create

Creates a basic progress bar beginning at 0, a maximum capacity of 100 and
tells it to start.

text
Progress: | |

Marking Progress

Every call to #increment will advance the bar by 1. Therefore:

ruby
50.times { progressbar.increment }

Would output an advancing line which would end up here:

text
Progress: |=================================== |

Animation

Basic Usage Marking Progress

Full Reference

There's gotten to be too much awesome to pack into one page. Visit the
wiki for the full documentation.

Issues

If you have problems, please create a Github issue.

Credits

The Kompanee

ruby-progressbar is maintained by The Kompanee, Ltd.

The names and logos for The Kompanee are trademarks of The Kompanee, Ltd.

License

ruby-progressbar 1.0 is Copyright © 2011-2021 The Kompanee. It is free
software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE
file.
ruby-progressbar 0.9.0 is Copyright © 2008 Satoru Takabayashi

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