---
license: other
language:
- en
tags:
- code
- ruby
- github
pretty_name: Ruby Code Corpus
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
---

# Ruby Code Corpus

A large corpus of Ruby source code collected from public GitHub repositories.

## Content

- **294,074 files** from 3,920+ Ruby repositories on GitHub
- Sourced from repos ranked by star count (quality signal)
- Filtered: removed files under 200 bytes (trivial/empty files)
- Only permissive licenses: MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, ISC, Ruby

## Fields

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `source` | Always `github` |
| `repo` | `owner/repo` slug |
| `repo_url` | Full GitHub URL |
| `path` | File path within the repo |
| `language` | Always `Ruby` |
| `license` | SPDX license identifier |
| `stars` | GitHub star count at collection time |
| `ref` | Branch name |
| `size_bytes` | File size in bytes |
| `text` | Raw source content |

## Composition

- ~95% `.rb` files
- ~37% test files (spec/test — kept intentionally, useful for training)
- ~58% production code

## Usage

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("NickIBrody/ruby-code-corpus", split="train")
print(ds[0]["text"])
```

## License

Individual files retain their original open-source licenses as specified in the `license` field.