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ruboto/ruboto

A platform for developing apps using JRuby on Android.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-05-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-06-23
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 81 open

2,029

stars

Forks: 161
Commits: 2,337 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ambethia/recaptcha

ReCaptcha helpers for ruby apps

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#captcha #rails #recaptcha #ruby #sinatra

Updated: 2026-06-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-05-26
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 50 open

2,006

stars

Forks: 437
Commits: 786 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

whomwah/rqrcode

A Ruby library that encodes QR Codes

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#qrcode #qrcode-generator #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-02-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

2,001

stars

Forks: 241
Commits: 376 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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patterns-ai-core/langchainrb

Build LLM-powered applications in Ruby

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#agents #ai-agents #artificial-intelligence #machine-learning #ml #rubyml

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-04-18
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 74 open

2,000

stars

Forks: 265
Commits: 931 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

brotandgames/ciao

HTTP checks & tests (private & public) monitoring - check the status of your URL

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#alerting #application-monitoring #http #monitoring #prometheus #uptime

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-05-11
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

1,982

stars

Forks: 109
Commits: 349 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

elastic/elasticsearch-ruby

Ruby integrations for Elasticsearch

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#client #elastic #elasticsearch #ruby #rubynlp #search

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-30
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 29 open

1,976

stars

Forks: 616
Commits: 3,512 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Shopify/identity_cache

IdentityCache is a blob level caching solution to plug into Active Record. Don't #find, #fetch!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #cache #webscale

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 43 open

1,969

stars

Forks: 175
Commits: 1,124 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

guard/listen

The Listen gem listens to file modifications and notifies you about the changes.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-11
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

1,959

stars

Forks: 254
Commits: 1,361 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ClosureTree/closure_tree

Easily and efficiently make your ActiveRecord models support hierarchies

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #ancestry #child #closure-tree #descendants #hierarchies

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-05-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 74 open

1,945

stars

Forks: 247
Commits: 1,024 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sidekiq-cron/sidekiq-cron

Scheduler / Cron for Sidekiq jobs

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#cron-jobs #ruby #ruby-gem #ruby-on-rails #scheduled-jobs #scheduler

Updated: 2026-05-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-25
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

1,945

stars

Forks: 303
Commits: 615 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rtomayko/tilt

Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-05-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-25
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

1,943

stars

Forks: 225
Commits: 848 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jeremyevans/rodauth

Ruby's Most Advanced Authentication Framework

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,937

stars

Forks: 110
Commits: 1,501 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

gocardless/statesman

A statesmanlike state machine library.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

1,911

stars

Forks: 158
Commits: 940 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hamstergem/hamster

Efficient, Immutable, Thread-Safe Collection classes for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2021-11-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-10-21
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 16 open

1,897

stars

Forks: 93
Commits: 1,865 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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AssetSync/asset_sync

Synchronises Assets between Rails and S3

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-07-30
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 62 open

1,892

stars

Forks: 331
Commits: 812 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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RubyMoney/money-rails

Integration of RubyMoney - Money with Rails

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-03-27
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

1,892

stars

Forks: 387
Commits: 903 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lazaronixon/authentication-zero

An authentication system generator for Rails applications.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#api #auth #authentication #generator #rails #rails-authentication

Updated: 2024-12-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-02-14
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

1,874

stars

Forks: 66
Commits: 536 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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redbooth/teambox

This is the legacy version of Teambox - the award-winning collaboration solution, inspired by Basecamp, Yammer and Twitter.

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2013-05-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-08-26
History: 6 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

1,837

stars

Forks: 395
Commits: 4,028 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

trailblazer/roar

Parse and render REST API documents using representers.

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

Updated: 2023-01-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

1,836

stars

Forks: 136
Commits: 854 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

decidim/decidim

The participatory democracy framework. A generator and multiple gems made with Ruby on Rails

AI dev

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#citizen-participation #civic-tech #civictech #collective-intelligence #community #decidim

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-08-17
History: 6 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 392 open

1,826

stars

Forks: 487
Commits: 8,205 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

DamirSvrtan/fasterer

:zap: Don't make your Rubies go fast. Make them go fasterer ™. :zap:

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-06-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-02-08
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

1,822

stars

Forks: 76
Commits: 251 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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snibox/snibox

Self-hosted snippet manager

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Vue Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#gists #notes #rails #self-hosted #snippets #vue

Updated: 2022-12-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-07
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 43 open

1,811

stars

Forks: 116
Commits: 325 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

avo-hq/avo

The Essential Toolkit for building Internal Tools and admin panels with Ruby on Rails

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#admin #admin-dashboard #admin-panel #cms-framework #content-management-system #crm

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-03-28
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 156 open

1,806

stars

Forks: 317
Commits: 3,724 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

geekq/workflow

Ruby finite-state-machine-inspired API for modeling workflow

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#aasm #dsl #ruby #state-machine

Updated: 2025-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-11-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

1,802

stars

Forks: 205
Commits: 427 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

hashrocket/decent_exposure

A helper for creating declarative interfaces in controllers

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-04-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-01-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

1,798

stars

Forks: 107
Commits: 418 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

gettalong/kramdown

kramdown is a fast, pure Ruby Markdown superset converter, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.

Stack

Ruby

GitHub topics

#html #kramdown #markdown #pdf #ruby

Updated: 2026-01-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-12-09
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 19 open

1,782

stars

Forks: 278
Commits: 1,147 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

evanphx/benchmark-ips

Provides iteration per second benchmarking for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

1,775

stars

Forks: 105
Commits: 299 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

basecamp/marginalia

Attach comments to ActiveRecord's SQL queries

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-03-08
History: 44 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

1,769

stars

Forks: 148
Commits: 267 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

fphilipe/premailer-rails

CSS styled emails without the hassle.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#css #email #gem #inline-css #rails #ruby

Updated: 2024-06-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-04-03
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

1,766

stars

Forks: 257
Commits: 398 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

brainspec/enumerize

Enumerated attributes with I18n and ActiveRecord/Mongoid support

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #mongoid #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-25
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

1,762

stars

Forks: 202
Commits: 747 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

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