# Torrent library for Ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/torrent-library-for-ruby/77149>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 24, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/torrent-library-for-ruby/77149 "2006-11-24T19:36:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![andreim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@andreim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andreim)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/torrent-library-for-ruby/77149/1 "2006-11-24T19:36:31Z")

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Hi folks,

I’m fairly new to Ruby and the whole Ruby on Rails thing, although I  
have some experience with [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) and C#. I’m trying to  
learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails through some pet projects, like a small  
backup script and a small web application.

Right now I’m trying to get the hang of RoR and I decided to create a  
small torrent tracker as most of the ones written in PHP  
seem to be extremely large scripts and quite difficult to debug (I’m no  
PHP expert, but…). I’m looking for a Ruby torrent gem  
and I found a couple of Rubyforge:

1. RubyTorrent
2. libtorrent-ruby

and there seem to be a couple of clients written in Ruby plus some  
utilities like Bencode and Bcodec.

The first project, RubyTorrent, is at 0.3 and that version was released  
back in 2005 with no updates since. libtorrent-ruby is a  
newer project, but at version 0.1 and with a smaller activity than  
RubyTorrent.

I really don’t know which project is better suited for my little web  
application or if one is written better than the other so I’m  
trying to gather some comments from people with more experience in Ruby  
than myself.

Thanks,

Andrei M.

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**Author:** ![andreim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@andreim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andreim)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/torrent-library-for-ruby/77149/2 "2006-11-26T19:15:09Z")

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I know a little about RubyTorrent, which is that the guy who wrote it  
is both friendly and smart. He’s an AI guy at Stanford. He said the  
library was functional but could do with some performance  
enhancements. I don’t know anything about the other library.