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jeremyevans/sequel

Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-02-27
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

5,097

stars

Forks: 1,073
Commits: 8,734 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ddnexus/pagy

Agnostic pagination in plain ruby

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bun Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#bootstrap #bulma #elasticsearch-rails #hanami #jsonapi #meilisearch

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-12-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

4,993

stars

Forks: 444
Commits: 2,483 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on

A tagging plugin for Rails applications that allows for custom tagging along dynamic contexts.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-11-27
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 67 open

4,988

stars

Forks: 1,192
Commits: 1,158 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

simplecov-ruby/simplecov

Code coverage for Ruby with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bun Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#code-quality #coverage #coverage-library #coverage-report #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-13
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

4,927

stars

Forks: 579
Commits: 2,334 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

opal/opal

Ruby ♥︎ JavaScript

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#browser #compiler #javascript #js #nodejs #opal

Updated: 2026-09-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-09-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 152 open

4,926

stars

Forks: 336
Commits: 8,897 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

backup/backup

Easy full stack backup operations on UNIX-like systems.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#backup #database #encryption #mongodb #mysql #postgresql

Updated: 2024-07-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

4,856

stars

Forks: 663
Commits: 1,309 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lobsters/lobsters

Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#aggregator #forum #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-06-17
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 232 open

4,845

stars

Forks: 997
Commits: 4,777 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

collectiveidea/delayed_job

Database based asynchronous priority queue system -- Extracted from Shopify

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-02-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 141 open

4,825

stars

Forks: 944
Commits: 1,115 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

prawnpdf/prawn

Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#pdf #pdf-generator #prawn #ruby

Updated: 2026-04-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-04-04
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 94 open

4,821

stars

Forks: 698
Commits: 3,114 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ankane/blazer

Business intelligence made simple

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#business-intelligence #charts #sql

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-01
History: 46 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

4,798

stars

Forks: 500
Commits: 1,662 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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TheOdinProject/theodinproject

Main website for The Odin Project

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Bundler Yarn

GitHub topics

#curriculum #odin #ruby #ruby-on-rails #theodinproject

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-05-15
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 44 open

4,647

stars

Forks: 2,146
Commits: 6,629 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

activemerchant/active_merchant

Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-11-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-02-20
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

4,601

stars

Forks: 2,485
Commits: 6,498 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sferik/twitter-ruby

A Ruby interface to the Twitter API.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-12-15
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

4,570

stars

Forks: 1,272
Commits: 2,909 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

octobox/octobox

📮 Untangle your GitHub Notifications

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#github #github-notifications #inbox #notifications #octobox #rails

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-12-16
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 65 open

4,484

stars

Forks: 348
Commits: 5,760 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ctran/annotate_models

Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #rails #ruby

Updated: 2024-08-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-02-27
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 145 open

4,483

stars

Forks: 680
Commits: 1,027 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ankane/ahoy

Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#analytics #events #first-party-analytics #rails #visits

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-26
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

4,482

stars

Forks: 385
Commits: 1,028 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ankane/strong_migrations

Catch unsafe migrations in development

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-11-23
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

4,449

stars

Forks: 200
Commits: 1,145 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

crmne/ruby_llm

The Ruby-native AI framework. Chats, agents, tools, images, audio, and video through one consistent API, in plain Ruby or Rails.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#agent-framework #agentic-ai #agents #ai #ai-agents #ai-framework

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2025-01-30
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

4,423

stars

Forks: 509
Commits: 1,590 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

blackcandy-org/blackcandy

A self hosted music streaming server

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#audio #hotwire #music #music-player #music-streaming #musicplayer

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-02-07
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

4,421

stars

Forks: 225
Commits: 1,054 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rails/jbuilder

Jbuilder: generate JSON objects with a Builder-style DSL

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-27
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 48 open

4,421

stars

Forks: 454
Commits: 877 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

mina-deploy/mina

Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#deployment #mina #rails #ruby #ssh

Updated: 2024-08-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-06-01
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 35 open

4,353

stars

Forks: 478
Commits: 951 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

binarylogic/authlogic

A simple ruby authentication solution.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-02-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-10-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

4,342

stars

Forks: 631
Commits: 1,177 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fog/fog

The Ruby cloud services library.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-11-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-05-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

4,296

stars

Forks: 1,443
Commits: 12,440 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

eventmachine/eventmachine

EventMachine: fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-02-28
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 200 open

4,278

stars

Forks: 633
Commits: 1,387 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

errbit/errbit

The open source error catcher that's Airbrake API compliant :ukraine:

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#airbrake #crash-reporting #error-monitoring #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-03
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 144 open

4,268

stars

Forks: 989
Commits: 4,324 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

grosser/parallel

Ruby: parallel processing made simple and fast

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-05-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 37 open

4,265

stars

Forks: 267
Commits: 880 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

flyerhzm/rails_best_practices

a code metric tool for rails projects

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-04-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-03
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 61 open

4,157

stars

Forks: 271
Commits: 1,376 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zdennis/activerecord-import

A library for bulk insertion of data into your database using ActiveRecord.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-02-26
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 54 open

4,155

stars

Forks: 620
Commits: 1,302 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

stringer-rss/stringer

A self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Vite Bundler pnpm

GitHub topics

#feed-reader #feedjira #rss #rss-reader #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-04-06
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 25 open

4,128

stars

Forks: 388
Commits: 1,949 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

voormedia/rails-erd

Generate Entity-Relationship Diagrams for Rails applications

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-09-19
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

4,101

stars

Forks: 379
Commits: 662 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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