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codykrieger/ace-rails-ap

The Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor (Ace) for the Rails 3.1+ asset pipeline.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-01-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-03
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

134

stars

Forks: 62
Commits: 89 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Ruby-Starter-Kits/Docker-Rails-Template

A freshly updated version of "rails new", preconfigured to be run with Docker.

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#docker #rails #starter-kit #template

Updated: 2022-02-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-07-06
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

134

stars

Forks: 29
Commits: 86 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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adzap/active_enum

Define enum classes in Rails and use them to enumerate ActiveRecord attributes, with I18n support

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-01-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-10-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

132

stars

Forks: 33
Commits: 272 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pophealth/popHealth

popHealth - An Open Source Population Health Reporting Prototype

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2017-01-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-10-05
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 28 open

127

stars

Forks: 150
Commits: 1,628 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Darep/Beatstream

Music streaming server/app

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript React Vite Go modules npm

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-02-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 26 open

125

stars

Forks: 32
Commits: 445 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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openaustralia/planningalerts

Find out and have your say about what's being built and knocked down in your area.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Tailwind CSS Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#civic-tech

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-03-20
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 80 open

116

stars

Forks: 54
Commits: 12,014 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

intercity/intercity-next

Web control panel to deploy apps on your servers (with Dokku)

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#control-panel #devops #dokku #provisioning

Updated: 2019-04-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-11-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 46 open

113

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 256 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

covoiturage-libre/covoiturage-libre

UNMAINTAINED

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#carpooling #covoiturage-libre #database #emails-delivered #france #nonprofit-organizations

Updated: 2019-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-05-24
History: 1 history point
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 75 open

112

stars

Forks: 27
Commits: 604 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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fairmondo/fairmondo

No description.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler

Updated: 2022-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-30
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 139 open

110

stars

Forks: 45
Commits: 12,845 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rgeo/rgeo-activerecord

RGeo ActiveRecord extensions and tools for spatial connection adapters

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-10-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-12-07
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 7 open

109

stars

Forks: 66
Commits: 312 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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nimblehq/rails-templates

Our optimized Rails templates used in our projects

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#docker #rails-template #ruby #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-26
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

104

stars

Forks: 23
Commits: 916 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

codefirst/AsakusaSatellite

a realtime chat application for developers

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2022-10-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

100

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 1,492 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

somleng/somleng

The world's only Open Source CPaaS with a Twilio compatible API

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#cloud-communications-platform #hacktoberfest #smpp #sms #somleng #telephony

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-13
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

100

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 4,870 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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trailblazer/reform-rails

Automatically load and include all common Rails form features.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-12-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-15
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 25 open

100

stars

Forks: 48
Commits: 190 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

dgidb/dgidb

Rails frontend to The Genome Institute's drug gene interaction database.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2025-08-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-05-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 62 open

stars

Forks: 32
Commits: 2,927 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

BemiHQ/bemi-rails

Robust data change tracking for Rails

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #audit #audit-log #audit-trail #postgresql #rails

Updated: 2024-08-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-03-07
History: 5 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 17 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

shakacode/react-on-rails-demo-ssr-hmr

Reference tutorial app for React on Rails with SSR, Fast Refresh HMR, and Shakapacker/Webpack.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Express React Ruby on Rails Bundler Yarn

GitHub topics

#demo #fast-refresh #hot-module-replacement #rails #react #react-on-rails

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-08-02
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

stars

Forks: 25
Commits: 90 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

gnclmorais/paloma

Page-specific JavaScript for Rails done right

Archived

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#javascript #rails #ruby

Updated: 2025-02-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 15
Commits: 393 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

DARIAEngineering/dcaf_case_management

Rails-based case management system for abortion funds

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Bundler Yarn

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 71 open

stars

Forks: 240
Commits: 7,048 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

24pullrequests/contribulator

:+1: Find open source project that are friendly and welcoming

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2021-12-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-12-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 1,359 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ankane/trove

Deploy machine learning models in Ruby (and Rails)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-04-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-10-31
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 42 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

codeforamerica/follow-all

Follow all the members of a Twitter list with a single click

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2019-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-06
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 11 open

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 1,366 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

astrocket/rails-template

Template for Rails 7.0 + Kubernetes

Stack

Ruby

Updated: 2026-08-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 155 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rootstrap/rails_hotwire_base

Rails + Hotwire base app

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#base #hotwire #rails #rails-hotwire #ruby #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2024-08-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-12-22
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 46 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

HabitatMap/AirCasting

AirCasting API and web application

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-17
History: 6 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 36 open

stars

Forks: 31
Commits: 4,039 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

EOL/deprecated_eol

Encyclopedia of Life

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler

Updated: 2019-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-14
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 19 open

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 12,470 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

balanced/rentmybikes-rails

A fully functional, deployable marketplace implementation using Balanced API for Rails

Stack

JavaScript Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2014-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-05-23
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 46 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

toy/image_optim_rails

Optimize rails assets using image_optim

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-08-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 138 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

jetrockets/metka

Rails gem to manage tags with PostgreSQL array columns.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#orm-extension #rails-gem #rails-tagging #social #tagging

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-08-20
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

stars

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

GitHub

kaznum/sanataro

Simple Web Household Account Book

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

Updated: 2025-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-04
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 17 open

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 2,599 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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