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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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

svenfuchs/rails-i18n

Repository for collecting Locale data for Ruby on Rails I18n as well as other interesting, Rails related I18n stuff

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-07-31
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 40 open

4,034

stars

Forks: 2,680
Commits: 2,473 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

flippercloud/flipper

🐬 Beautiful, performant feature flags for Ruby.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#api #dalli #feature #feature-flag #feature-flagging #feature-flags

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-22
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 34 open

3,972

stars

Forks: 444
Commits: 3,402 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

airbnb/ruby

Ruby Style Guide

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-12-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

3,892

stars

Forks: 757
Commits: 352 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ankane/groupdate

The simplest way to group temporal data

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-04-18
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

3,886

stars

Forks: 240
Commits: 854 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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stefankroes/ancestry

Organise ActiveRecord model into a tree structure

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-10-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

3,884

stars

Forks: 473
Commits: 966 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ryanb/letter_opener

Preview mail in the browser instead of sending.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-04-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-09-07
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

3,837

stars

Forks: 246
Commits: 336 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jwt/ruby-jwt

A ruby implementation of the RFC 7519 OAuth JSON Web Token (JWT) standard.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#jwk #jwt #jwt-token #oauth-json-web #ruby #ruby-jwt

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-02-23
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

3,684

stars

Forks: 379
Commits: 1,032 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

roidrage/lograge

An attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-03-10
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 66 open

3,573

stars

Forks: 298
Commits: 513 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mileszs/wicked_pdf

PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-07-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-06-16
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 313 open

3,572

stars

Forks: 637
Commits: 985 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

trailblazer/trailblazer

The advanced business logic framework for Ruby.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#architecture

Updated: 2025-07-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-03-27
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 38 open

3,472

stars

Forks: 147
Commits: 1,179 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

collectiveidea/interactor

Interactor provides a common interface for performing complex user interactions.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-07-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-07-19
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

3,456

stars

Forks: 211
Commits: 207 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

deivid-rodriguez/byebug

Debugging in Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#byebug #debugger #repl #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-03-14
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 101 open

3,350

stars

Forks: 329
Commits: 3,091 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

thoughtbot/high_voltage

Easily include static pages in your Rails app.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-04-21
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

3,231

stars

Forks: 148
Commits: 496 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

alexrudall/ruby-openai

OpenAI API + Ruby! 🤖❤️ GPT-5 & Realtime WebRTC compatible!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#ai #api-client #chatgpt #dall-e #gpt-4 #gpt-4o

Updated: 2026-05-01
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2020-08-03
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 55 open

3,222

stars

Forks: 383
Commits: 1,327 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

public-activity/public_activity

Easy activity tracking for models - similar to Github's Public Activity

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #activity-stream #hackertoberfest #news-feed #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-02-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 22 open

2,990

stars

Forks: 329
Commits: 589 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pdfkit/pdfkit

A Ruby gem to transform HTML + CSS into PDFs using the command-line utility wkhtmltopdf

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#html-to-pdf #middleware #pdfkit #ruby #wkhtmltopdf

Updated: 2023-08-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-05-21
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

2,940

stars

Forks: 418
Commits: 490 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rubysherpas/paranoia

acts_as_paranoid for Rails 5, 6 and 7

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2025-11-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-07
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 105 open

2,914

stars

Forks: 524
Commits: 537 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

RubyMoney/money

A Ruby Library for dealing with money and currency conversion.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#exchange-rate #money #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-10-31
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

2,883

stars

Forks: 646
Commits: 1,914 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kpumuk/meta-tags

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Ruby on Rails applications.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#meta-tags #opengraph #opengraph-tags #rails #ruby #search-engine-optimization

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-09-17
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

2,801

stars

Forks: 280
Commits: 867 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rubysec/bundler-audit

Patch-level verification for Bundler

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#bundler-audit #dependency-checker #patch-management #ruby #ruby-advisory-db #security

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-10
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 48 open

2,762

stars

Forks: 247
Commits: 753 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rails/bootsnap

Boot large Ruby/Rails apps faster

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#computers #gem #performance #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-01-18
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

2,739

stars

Forks: 211
Commits: 850 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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