.rb

2 claimants 2 primary 0 secondary shared primary (2)

SWH popularity

From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.

128.2M
total occurrences
21.8M
since 2019 (17.0%)
1970–2023
years active

Case variants in archive: .rb (128.2M), .RB (2.0K), .Rb (80) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to Duby; Ruby; Ruby; Ruby as primary by 4 authoritative claims.

Authoritative sources: ✓ Linguist ✓ Pygments ✓ Wikidata · Q161053 ✗ Wikipedia · no claim

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Claimants (4)

Languages that list .rb among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
Dubypygmentsprimary
Rubylinguistprimary
Rubypygmentsprimary
Rubywikidataprimary

Wikidata says… (3)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .rb on Wikidata (property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox. Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv. Click Use as new PL on any row to open the Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
Right entry isn't listed? Add manually ↗
FormatClass (Wikidata P31)Suggested labelMIMENotesAction
Rocket Book eBook format Q49988510
file format
file formatapplication/octet-streamUse as new PL ↗
Rocket eBook (variant) Q105860142
file format
file formatapplication/octet-streamUse as new PL ↗
Ruby source code Q111440765
file format
file formatapplication/x-ruby; text/x-rubyUse as new PL ↗

SWH-mined examples (0)

No archived examples for .rb in our local mirror yet.

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