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# Ruby: what its llms.txt contains

Measured on 2026-08-31: 9.7 KB, 10 sections, 56 links. How that compares with the other 118 files we track, and what it implies.

Last updated: August 31, 2026

## The file

**Ruby** publishes an llms.txt at
[`https://ruby-lang.org/llms.txt`](https://ruby-lang.org/llms.txt).

That URL redirects to `https://www.ruby-lang.org/llms.txt`, which is where the file is actually
served. Worth knowing if you fetch it programmatically: a client that does not follow
redirects gets nothing.

The file declares itself as **Ruby Programming Language** in its H1, and the host is categorised here
as other. It was last fetched and parsed on 2026-08-31.

## Measured structure
Measure   Ruby   Corpus median   Percentile           Size   9.7 KB   14.0 KB   37th       H2 sections   10   8   71th       Links   56   76   44th       Blockquote summary   Present   99 of 119 have one   n/a        
Percentiles are against the 119 files in this directory, not against the web. That population
is deliberately weighted toward documentation platforms and developer tools, which is where the convention
started, so treat it as a peer group rather than a norm.

## Observations

Nothing in this file stands out against the corpus. It carries a blockquote summary, its
section count and link count sit in the normal range, and its size is unremarkable. For a
format whose whole job is to be a short, legible index, that is the intended outcome rather
than a lack of findings.

Note

What this page does not tell you

These are structural measurements of a text file. They say nothing about whether the pages it
links to are good, whether anything actually reads it, or whether publishing it helped this
site. On that last question the measured answer is sobering, and we cover it in
no AI agent goes looking for your llms.txt .

## Comparable files

Closest in size within other, from the same weekly check:

- [llmtxt.info (this site)](/llms-txt-directory/llmtxt-info/): 11.1 KB, 11 
sections, 98 links
- [nbdev](/llms-txt-directory/nbdev-fast-ai/): 4.2 KB, 3 
sections, 29 links
, no blockquote summary
- [Answer.AI](/llms-txt-directory/answer-ai/): 760 B, 1 
sections, 3 links
- [llms.txt spec](/llms-txt-directory/llmstxt-org/): 637 B, 1 
sections, 3 links   
## How this was measured

Our checker fetches `/llms.txt` for every host in the directory, follows redirects, confirms
the response is Markdown rather than an HTML error page, and parses it with the same parser that powers
our [validator](/validator/). Sizes are of the served body, sections are H2 headings,
and links are Markdown links anywhere in the file. The run behind this page completed on 2026-08-31.

Want to check a file yourself, including this one? Paste the URL into the
[validator](/validator/). To see how to find any site's file, see
[how to find a website's llms.txt](/how-to-find-llms-txt/), and for the full list see
the [directory of 119 verified files](/examples/).

## Sources

- [ Ruby llms.txt (live file) ](https://www.ruby-lang.org/llms.txt)
- [ llmstxt.org, the specification ](https://llmstxt.org/)           
On this page

- [ The file ](#file)
- [ Measured structure ](#structure)
- [ Observations ](#observations)
- [ Comparable files ](#compare)
- [ How this was measured ](#method)
