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ohler55/ox

Ruby Optimized XML Parser

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

913

stars

Forks: 81
Commits: 856 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

igrigorik/http-2

Pure Ruby implementation of HTTP/2 protocol

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

909

stars

Forks: 70
Commits: 566 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

keepcosmos/terjira

Terjira is a very interactive and easy to use CLI tool for Jira.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#agile #cli #command-line #command-line-app #command-line-tool #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2023-03-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-27
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

909

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 154 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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amatsuda/traceroute

A Rake task gem that helps you find the unused routes and controller actions for your Rails 3+ app

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2025-04-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-05-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

904

stars

Forks: 37
Commits: 171 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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libvips/ruby-vips

Ruby extension for the libvips image processing library.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#image-processing #libvips #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

903

stars

Forks: 64
Commits: 744 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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arches/table_print

The best data slicer! Watch a 3 minute screencast at http://tableprintgem.com

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-03-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 31 open

902

stars

Forks: 42
Commits: 282 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

balvig/spyke

Interact with REST services in an ActiveRecord-like manner

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #api #faraday #json #rest #rest-api

Updated: 2025-11-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-13
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

902

stars

Forks: 65
Commits: 334 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lassebunk/gretel

Flexible Ruby on Rails breadcrumbs plugin.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2024-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-26
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

890

stars

Forks: 115
Commits: 398 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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codeplant/simple-navigation

A ruby gem for creating navigations (with multiple levels) for your Rails, Sinatra or Padrino applications. Render your navigation as html list, link list or breadcrumbs.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#menu #navigation #padrino #rails #ruby #sinatra

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-03-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

886

stars

Forks: 137
Commits: 807 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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adomokos/light-service

Series of Actions with an emphasis on simplicity.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#aop #ruby #workflow

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-10-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

882

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 763 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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holidays/holidays

A collection of Ruby methods to deal with statutory and other holidays. You deserve a holiday!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-11-20
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 13 open

878

stars

Forks: 287
Commits: 1,158 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rubocop/rubocop-rails

A RuboCop extension focused on enforcing Rails best practices and coding conventions.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#code-formatter #hacktoberfest #linter #rails #rubocop #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-06-10
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 193 open

877

stars

Forks: 316
Commits: 2,603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

heartcombo/mail_form

Send e-mail straight from forms in Rails with I18n, validations, attachments and request information.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-03-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-04-03
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

871

stars

Forks: 64
Commits: 228 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rubychan/coderay

Fast and easy syntax highlighting for selected languages, written in Ruby.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-09-26
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 127 open

866

stars

Forks: 112
Commits: 1,245 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

automaticmode/active_workflow

Polyglot workflows without leaving the comfort of your technology stack.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activeworkflow #agents #data-engineering #data-ops #event-driven #ifttt

Updated: 2023-04-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-03-29
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2 open

864

stars

Forks: 75
Commits: 201 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rubocop/rubocop-rspec

Code style checking for RSpec files.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#lint #rspec #rubocop #ruby #static-analysis #testing

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-26
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 94 open

859

stars

Forks: 299
Commits: 3,097 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

coderwall/coderwall-legacy

Professional network for software engineers

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler

Updated: 2016-02-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-21
History: 6 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

856

stars

Forks: 303
Commits: 1,444 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

comfy/active_link_to

Rails view helper to manage "active" state of a link

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#navigation #rails

Updated: 2024-04-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-03-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

853

stars

Forks: 84
Commits: 124 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rossta/montrose

Recurring events library for Ruby. Enumerable recurrence objects and convenient chainable interface.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#recurrence #recurring-events #ruby

Updated: 2025-01-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-31
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

852

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 553 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

wearefine/fae

CMS for Rails. For Reals.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#cms #content-management-system #hacktoberfest #rails #rails-engine #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-08-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

852

stars

Forks: 142
Commits: 3,513 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

be9/acl9

Yet another role-based authorization system for Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2025-03-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-03
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

848

stars

Forks: 111
Commits: 200 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

AndyObtiva/glimmer

DSL Framework consisting of a DSL Engine and a Data-Binding Library used in Glimmer DSL for SWT (JRuby Desktop Development GUI Framework), Glimmer DSL for Opal (Pure Ruby Web GUI), Glimmer DSL for LibUI (Prerequisite-Free Ruby Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for Tk (Ruby Tk Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for GTK (Ruby-GNOME Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for XML (& HTML), and Glimmer DSL for CSS

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#desktop #desktop-application-sdk #dsl #dsl-engine #framework #glimmer

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-12-20
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

841

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 21,536 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ankane/torch.rb

Deep learning for Ruby, powered by LibTorch

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-26
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 5 open

839

stars

Forks: 38
Commits: 1,049 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

motor-admin/motor-admin-rails

Low-code Admin panel and Business intelligence Rails engine. No DSL - configurable from the UI. Rails Admin, Active Admin, Blazer modern alternative.

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Vue Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#admin #admin-dashboard #business-intelligence #charts #crud #low-code

Updated: 2026-02-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-03-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 33 open

839

stars

Forks: 90
Commits: 566 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mrkamel/search_cop

Search engine like fulltext query support for ActiveRecord

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #fulltext-indices #fulltext-support #mysql #postgres #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

838

stars

Forks: 36
Commits: 229 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

postmodern/spidr

A versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domains, certain links or infinitely. Spidr is designed to be fast and easy to use.

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#crawler #ruby #scraper #spider #spider-links #web

Updated: 2026-01-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

836

stars

Forks: 105
Commits: 898 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Shopify/pitchfork

No description.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-01-28
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 10 open

834

stars

Forks: 36
Commits: 3,113 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

commander-rb/commander

The complete solution for Ruby command-line executables

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-10-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

823

stars

Forks: 69
Commits: 911 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

restforce/restforce

A Ruby client for the Salesforce REST API.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-08-27
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 174 open

822

stars

Forks: 362
Commits: 1,248 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

shadabahmed/logstasher

Awesome rails logs

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2025-11-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 45 open

817

stars

Forks: 139
Commits: 286 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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