The municipality is a winegrowing centre with a long tradition in the field, and is part of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration.

After the French Revolution, the village became part of the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German), until in 1815, the Congress of Vienna assigned it, together with the rest of the Palatinate, to Bavaria.

[3] The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results: Ruppertsberg's mayor is Heiner Weisbrodt.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Or a tower embattled of four and masoned at the corners sable on a wall of the same with a merlon at each end, in base a gateway with pointed arch of the field in which a bunch of grapes azure slipped vert.

Many explanations have been put forth (a tool of some kind, a village symbol, somebody's monogram, a charge from the arms borne by the old feudal lords, and still others).

The Sunday of this weekend is also Erlebnistag Deutsche Weinstraße (“German Wine Route Adventure Day”).

Appellations are: Nearby Deidesheim station on the Pfälzische Nordbahn affords rail links to Bad Dürkheim and Neustadt an der Weinstraße.