A class of Ruscheweyh-type harmonic functions is defined, using q-differential operators and suffcient coeffcient conditions for this class is determined. We then consider a subclass of the aforementioned class consisting of functions with real coeffcients and obtain necessary and suffcient coeffcient bounds, distortion theorem, extreme points, and convex combination conditions for such class. It is shown that the classes of functions considered in this paper contain various well-known as well as new classes of harmonic functions. © 2019 khayyam journal of mathematics.