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Freika/dawarich

Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#google-maps #gpslogger #hacktoberfest #homelab #maps #memory

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-04-06
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 184 open

10,597

stars

Forks: 391
Commits: 5,377 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

we-promise/sure

The personal finance app for everyone (by everyone)

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Android Flutter Ruby on Rails Tauri Bundler Cargo CocoaPods

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-02-02
History: 22 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 745 open

10,548

stars

Forks: 655
Commits: 3,786 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +75 +0.7%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +83 +2.2%

Website GitHub

teamcapybara/capybara

Acceptance test framework for web applications

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

10,176

stars

Forks: 1,470
Commits: 4,422 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

antiwork/gumroad

See what sticks

AI dev

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Vite Bundler Go modules npm

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-04-03
History: 69 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

9,945

stars

Forks: 2,080
Commits: 4,920 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +29 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +33 +0.7%

Website GitHub

activeadmin/activeadmin

The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Vite Vue Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#activeadmin #admin-ui #arbre #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-04-15
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 29 open

9,713

stars

Forks: 3,324
Commits: 9,007 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

resque/resque

Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later.

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#asynchronous-tasks #asynctask #background-jobs #background-service #background-worker #job-management

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-08-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 72 open

9,468

stars

Forks: 1,657
Commits: 1,882 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ankane/pghero

A performance dashboard for Postgres

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-07-21
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

8,934

stars

Forks: 479
Commits: 1,623 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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javan/whenever

Cron jobs in Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-02-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 81 open

8,853

stars

Forks: 714
Commits: 600 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave

Classier solution for file uploads for Rails, Sinatra and other Ruby web frameworks

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-08-28
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 18 open

8,768

stars

Forks: 1,646
Commits: 2,772 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kaminari/kaminari

⚡ A Scope & Engine based, clean, powerful, customizable and sophisticated paginator for Ruby webapps

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#kaminari #pagination #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-02-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-02-05
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 76 open

8,667

stars

Forks: 1,073
Commits: 1,714 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

varvet/pundit

Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#ruby

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-11-04
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

8,521

stars

Forks: 640
Commits: 768 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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basecamp/fizzy

Kanban as it should be. Not as it has been.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#hotwire #kanban #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2024-06-21
History: 137 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 89 open

8,251

stars

Forks: 1,204
Commits: 10,260 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +7 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +27 +0.3%

Website GitHub

chef/chef

Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#automation #cfgmgt #chef #deployment #devops #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-03-06
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 421 open

8,248

stars

Forks: 2,518
Commits: 34,421 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

heartcombo/simple_form

Forms made easy for Rails! It's tied to a simple DSL, with no opinion on markup.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#dsl #form-builder #rails #rails-helper #ruby

Updated: 2026-04-01
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-18
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 37 open

8,230

stars

Forks: 1,292
Commits: 2,118 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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thoughtbot/factory_bot

A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#factories #factory-bot #factory-girl #fixtures #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-05-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 83 open

8,169

stars

Forks: 2,553
Commits: 1,320 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

omniauth/omniauth

OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#authentication #hacktoberfest #omniauth #ruby

Updated: 2026-02-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-03-25
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 105 open

8,103

stars

Forks: 973
Commits: 1,481 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

railsadminteam/rails_admin

RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-01
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 110 open

7,956

stars

Forks: 2,226
Commits: 6,428 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

puppetlabs/puppet

Server automation framework and application

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-04-13
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 90 open

7,942

stars

Forks: 2,204
Commits: 35,429 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

puma/puma

A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#multithreading #rack #ruby #server

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-01-28
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 87 open

7,916

stars

Forks: 1,502
Commits: 4,414 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

github/scientist

:microscope: A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#refactoring #ruby #rubygem #scientist

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

7,759

stars

Forks: 505
Commits: 256 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

github-changelog-generator/github-changelog-generator

Automatically generate change log from your tags, issues, labels and pull requests on GitHub.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#changelog #changelog-generator #generator #github-api #github-extension #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-03-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-31
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 129 open

7,537

stars

Forks: 841
Commits: 1,837 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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flyerhzm/bullet

help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-08-13
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

7,337

stars

Forks: 456
Commits: 1,536 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

presidentbeef/brakeman

A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#brakeman #rails #ruby #security #security-audit #security-tools

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-27
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 116 open

7,274

stars

Forks: 779
Commits: 4,241 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

paper-trail-gem/paper_trail

Track changes to your rails models

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #audit #log #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-05-27
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

7,029

stars

Forks: 908
Commits: 2,427 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

instructure/canvas-lms

The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#canvas-lms #gerrit-mirror #instructure

Updated: 2026-04-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-02-01
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 469 open

6,861

stars

Forks: 3,036
Commits: 78,765 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

BetterErrors/better_errors

Better error page for Rack apps

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-07-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-12-08
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 68 open

6,858

stars

Forks: 430
Commits: 737 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

pry/pry

A runtime developer console and IRB alternative with powerful introspection capabilities.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#console #debugger #introspection #irb #pry #reflection

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-12-07
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 125 open

6,839

stars

Forks: 609
Commits: 4,561 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sj26/mailcatcher

Catches mail and serves it through a dream.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#development #devtools #mail #rails #ruby #rubygems

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-25
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 43 open

6,779

stars

Forks: 605
Commits: 640 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bkeepers/dotenv

A Ruby gem to load environment variables from `.env`.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#dotenv #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-24
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

6,764

stars

Forks: 516
Commits: 815 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ankane/searchkick

Intelligent search made easy

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#elasticsearch #opensearch #rails

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-07-15
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

6,721

stars

Forks: 762
Commits: 3,220 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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