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franckverrot/activevalidators

Collection of ActiveModel/ActiveRecord validators

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-10-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-11-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

302

stars

Forks: 48
Commits: 314 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

benedikt/mongoid-tree

A tree structure for Mongoid documents using the materialized path pattern

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-08-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-07-25
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

300

stars

Forks: 66
Commits: 303 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kreeti/kt-paperclip

Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-08-05
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 26 open

293

stars

Forks: 100
Commits: 2,065 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ryanckulp/speedrail

Rails 8 app template: Devise auth, Stripe billing, Tailwind CSS, admin panel, SEO helpers, etc

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#mvp-template #rails #rails-template #rails8 #ruby-on-rails-template

Updated: 2025-05-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-01-31
History: 42 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

291

stars

Forks: 38
Commits: 433 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Retrospring/retrospring

Q/A based social network

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #justask #questions-and-answers #rails #retrospring #ruby

Updated: 2025-08-31
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-08-01
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 51 open

285

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 6,508 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rapidftr/RapidFTR

RapidFTR streamlines and speeds up the Family Tracing and Reunification process using small handheld devices to collect information. UNICEF no longer supports RapidFTR, but please check out www.primero.org to see what RapidFTR has grown into.

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2016-12-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-01-29
History: 6 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

284

stars

Forks: 317
Commits: 4,805 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zauberware/rails-devise-graphql

A Rails 6 boilerplate to create your next Saas product. Preloaded with graphQL, devise, JWT, CanCanCan, RailsAdmin, Rubocop, Rspec, i18n and more.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#api-only #authentication-backend #boilerplate #boilerplate-template #devise #devise-jwt

Updated: 2023-01-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-02-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

284

stars

Forks: 51
Commits: 140 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

railsware/global

"Global" provides accessor methods for your configuration data

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-12-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-14
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

283

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 132 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fatkodima/sidekiq-iteration

Make your long-running sidekiq jobs interruptible and resumable.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #gem #rails #ruby #sidekiq

Updated: 2026-02-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-11-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

281

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 60 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bensie/sshkey

SSH private and public key generator in pure Ruby (RSA & DSA)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-12-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

279

stars

Forks: 45
Commits: 246 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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fatkodima/fast_count

Quickly get a count estimation for large tables (>99% of accuracy for PostgreSQL).

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#gem #mysql #performance #postgresql #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-03-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-04-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

278

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 26 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Gokul595/api_guard

JWT authentication solution for Rails APIs

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#api #api-auth #api-authentication #api-guard #authentication #jwt

Updated: 2023-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-03-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

278

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 192 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ankane/logstop

Keep personal data out of your logs

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-04-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-03-31
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

274

stars

Forks: 13
Commits: 127 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

JackDanger/permanent_records

Rails Plugin - soft-delete your ActiveRecord records. It's like an explicit version of ActsAsParanoid

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-01-31
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

273

stars

Forks: 58
Commits: 320 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

patriciomacadden/hobbit

A minimalistic microframework built on top of Rack.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2020-12-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-11
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

271

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 138 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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didww/credit_card_validations

:credit_card: ruby gem for validating credit cards, generating credit card numbers, Luhn checks

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#credit-card #e-commerce #rails #validation

Updated: 2026-06-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-03-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

270

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 330 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bigbinary/wheel

Don't reinvent the wheel for every new Rails project. Use sane Defaults.

Archived

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Vite Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#boilerplate #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-05-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

266

stars

Forks: 196
Commits: 1,269 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

brunocascio/docker-espanol

Un tutorial Docker en español. Basado en el libro Docker Cookbook de O'reilly

Stack

Ruby

GitHub topics

#docker #espanol #spanish #tutorial

Updated: 2020-07-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-10
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

266

stars

Forks: 78
Commits: 37 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

codemancers/invoicing

Ruby invoicing framework gem

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2023-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-11-27
History: 147 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

266

stars

Forks: 38
Commits: 303 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

rails/actionpack-action_caching

Action caching for Action Pack (removed from core in Rails 4.0)

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2022-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-10-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

266

stars

Forks: 96
Commits: 130 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

lostisland/sawyer

Secret User Agent of HTTP

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

265

stars

Forks: 66
Commits: 267 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

IFTTT/kashmir

Kashmir is a Ruby DSL that makes serializing and caching objects a snap.

Archived

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-04-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

264

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 85 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ahoward/main

a class factory and dsl for generating command line programs real quick

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-04-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-04-21
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

263

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 94 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

kenn/active_flag

Bit array for ActiveRecord

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

259

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 96 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ManageIQ/optimist

Optimist is a commandline option parser for Ruby that just gets out of your way.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-01-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 42 open

259

stars

Forks: 35
Commits: 432 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

gbaptista/ollama-ai

A Ruby gem for interacting with Ollama's API that allows you to run open source AI LLMs (Large Language Models) locally.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#ai #alpaca #bakllava #dolphin #llama #llama2

Updated: 2024-07-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-01-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

258

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 18 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

suketa/ruby-duckdb

Ruby binding for DuckDB

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#database #hacktoberfest #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-10-28
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

257

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 2,754 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

erwanlr/Fingerprinter

CMS/LMS/Library etc Versions Fingerprinter

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#cms #fingerprinting #security-tools

Updated: 2025-09-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-17
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

256

stars

Forks: 39
Commits: 486 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

saturnflyer/surrounded

Create encapsulated systems of objects and focus on their interactions

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

256

stars

Forks: 13
Commits: 464 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

natew/obtvse2

A clean and simple markdown blogging platform on Rails.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2018-05-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-13
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

255

stars

Forks: 65
Commits: 58 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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