Open Source Rubular Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Rubular is RegExr. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Rubular and 15 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Rubular are Wildcard, Regulex, The Regulator and RegExpEditor.

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  1. RegExr icon
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    RegExr.com is an online tool to learn, build, and test Regular Expressions. It was created by Grant Skinner and the nice people at gskinner.com.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. Wildcard icon
     2 likes

    Wildcard gives you a nice and simple to use interface to test/practice regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  3. Regulex icon
     5 likes

    Regulex is an open-source, regular expression parser and visualizer. It's available online, can be embedded in other websites, or the code can be self-hosted as a JavaScript tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. The Regulator icon
     5 likes

    The Regulator is an advanced Regular expressions testing tool, featuring syntax highlighting and web-service integration with Regexlib.coms database of online regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. RegExpEditor icon
     1 like

    What RegExpEditor is can be said easyest by telling what it is not: It is not an editor for regular expressions. Although it can be used for this purpose. Instead RegExpEditor is a text editor that allows you to alter text using regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6.  1 like

    CyrilEx is an online regex tester, it allows to test regular expression in PHP (PCRE), Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Java and MySQL.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. MassageTXT icon
     1 like

    Convert between text and structured data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Scriptular icon
     1 like

    Scriptular is a web-based JavaScript regular expression editor base on the look and feel of Rubular. Use it online in your browser for free or download the open-source code and host it for yourself on your computer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. iHateRegex icon
     4 likes

    iHateRegex offers an easy way for developers to find helpful and reusable regular expressions while also providing an intuitive playground to interact with regex snippets to create or just learn.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. jRegExAnalyser is an interactive tool written in Java to write, test, debug, analyse and profile regular expressions. Its free and Open Source software, licensed under the terms of GPLv2 with Class Path Exception.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Visual REGEXP icon
     3 likes

    This software will let you design your regexps by letting you type the expression and visualize its effect on a sample of your choice.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. Reggy icon
     3 likes

    Reggy is a small OS X cocoa/objective-c application to very quickly visualize what a given regular expression will match given a test string. It will also tell you if you have errors in your regular expression.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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