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dansrocks/ruler
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A simple stateless agnostic rules engine for PHP 7.2+

v2.1.1(7y ago)1573CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0PHPPHP >=7.2CI failing

Since Feb 16Pushed 5y ago1 watchersCompare

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Ruler - An agnostic rule engine for PHP7.2+
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[](#ruler---an-agnostic-rule-engine-for-php72)

Author: Daniel Cabrera

###  Health Score

29

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LowBetter than 59% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity61

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~58 days

Recently: every ~97 days

Total

8

Last Release

2236d ago

Major Versions

v0.3-alpha → v1.0.02019-03-08

v1.1.0 → v2.0.02020-03-30

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/df1f87a4359b06d9fa8e8305c76adff860f15a7c0767048becc10f6027e1466c?d=identicon)[Daniel Cabrera](/maintainers/Daniel%20Cabrera)

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Top Contributors

[![dansrocks](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1129211?v=4)](https://github.com/dansrocks "dansrocks (38 commits)")

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Tags

rulesengineagnostic PHP

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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