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excid3/noticed

Notifications for Ruby on Rails applications

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#email #notifications #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-07-27
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

2,705

stars

Forks: 202
Commits: 677 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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DavyJonesLocker/client_side_validations

Client Side Validations made easy for Ruby on Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler pnpm

GitHub topics

#clientsidevalidations #rails

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

2,681

stars

Forks: 395
Commits: 1,752 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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scambra/devise_invitable

An invitation strategy for devise

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#devise #invitation #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-12-08
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 73 open

2,674

stars

Forks: 543
Commits: 1,115 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Apipie/apipie-rails

Ruby on Rails API documentation tool

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-30
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 232 open

2,506

stars

Forks: 454
Commits: 1,031 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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fnando/browser

Do some browser detection with Ruby. Includes ActionController integration.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#browser-detection #rails #ruby #user-agent

Updated: 2025-06-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-07-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

2,497

stars

Forks: 364
Commits: 597 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kjvarga/sitemap_generator

SitemapGenerator is a framework-agnostic XML Sitemap generator written in Ruby with automatic Rails integration. It supports Video, News, Image, Mobile, PageMap and Alternate Links sitemap extensions and includes Rake tasks for managing your sitemaps, as well as many other great features.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#sitemaps

Updated: 2026-08-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-07-01
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

2,492

stars

Forks: 276
Commits: 867 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jhawthorn/discard

🃏🗑 Soft deletes for ActiveRecord done right

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-04-19
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

2,424

stars

Forks: 94
Commits: 158 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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countries/countries

All sorts of useful information about every country packaged as convenient little country objects. It includes data from ISO 3166 (countries and states/subdivisions ), ISO 4217 (currency), and E.164 (phone numbers).

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#countries #iso3166 #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-12-18
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

2,364

stars

Forks: 679
Commits: 1,851 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pay-rails/pay

Payments for Ruby on Rails apps

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#braintree #engine #hacktoberfest #paddle #pay #payment-provider

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-02-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

2,254

stars

Forks: 359
Commits: 1,987 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rswag/rswag

Seamlessly adds a Swagger to Rails-based API's

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#openapi #rswag #swagger-ui

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 26 open

2,202

stars

Forks: 454
Commits: 1,047 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rpush/rpush

The push notification service for Ruby.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#apns #apns2 #fcm #firebase-cloud-messaging #hacktoberfest #notification-service

Updated: 2025-07-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-08-23
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 39 open

2,201

stars

Forks: 382
Commits: 1,780 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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AaronLasseigne/active_interaction

:briefcase: Manage application specific business logic.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activemodel #command-pattern #method-object #ruby #service-object

Updated: 2025-11-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-06-26
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

2,148

stars

Forks: 146
Commits: 1,794 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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magnusvk/counter_culture

Turbo-charged counter caches for your Rails app.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #counter-cache #database #gem #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-05-24
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

2,118

stars

Forks: 224
Commits: 790 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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brendon/acts_as_list

An ActiveRecord plugin for managing lists.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-09-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

2,079

stars

Forks: 357
Commits: 558 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

whomwah/rqrcode

A Ruby library that encodes QR Codes

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#qrcode #qrcode-generator #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-02-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

2,001

stars

Forks: 241
Commits: 376 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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RubyMoney/money-rails

Integration of RubyMoney - Money with Rails

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-03-27
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

1,892

stars

Forks: 387
Commits: 903 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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DamirSvrtan/fasterer

:zap: Don't make your Rubies go fast. Make them go fasterer ™. :zap:

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-06-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-02-08
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

1,822

stars

Forks: 76
Commits: 251 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sidekiq-scheduler/sidekiq-scheduler

Lightweight job scheduler extension for Sidekiq

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#cron #ruby #scheduler #sidekiq

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

1,754

stars

Forks: 241
Commits: 491 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ErwinM/acts_as_tenant

Easy multi-tenancy for Rails in a shared database setup.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-08-08
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,708

stars

Forks: 266
Commits: 448 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

mdp/rotp

Ruby One Time Password library

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-11-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

1,657

stars

Forks: 482
Commits: 292 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ankane/lockbox

Modern encryption for Ruby and Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #activestorage #carrierwave #encryption #libsodium #mongoid

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-02
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

1,610

stars

Forks: 79
Commits: 924 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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plentz/lol_dba

lol_dba is a small package of rake tasks that scan your application models and displays a list of columns that probably should be indexed. Also, it can generate .sql migration scripts.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#database #database-migrations #gem #migrations #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-03-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-09-10
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 15 open

1,595

stars

Forks: 70
Commits: 422 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Casecommons/pg_search

pg_search builds ActiveRecord named scopes that take advantage of PostgreSQL’s full text search

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #metaphone #multi-search #pg-search #postgresql #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-11-09
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 157 open

1,586

stars

Forks: 380
Commits: 1,139 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ffaker/ffaker

Faker refactored.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-04-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-01-15
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

1,572

stars

Forks: 556
Commits: 1,109 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

toy/image_optim

Optimize images using multiple utilities

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#image-optimisation #image-optimization #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 39 open

1,550

stars

Forks: 106
Commits: 1,333 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ryanto/acts_as_votable

Votable ActiveRecord for Rails

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2022-12-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-12-26
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 15 open

1,529

stars

Forks: 212
Commits: 286 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ActsAsParanoid/acts_as_paranoid

ActiveRecord plugin allowing you to hide and restore records without actually deleting them.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-04-18
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 47 open

1,507

stars

Forks: 193
Commits: 1,005 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ankane/pretender

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-04-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-03-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,425

stars

Forks: 56
Commits: 164 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

topfunky/gruff

Gruff graphing library for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-03-11
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

1,398

stars

Forks: 240
Commits: 1,085 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

gettalong/hexapdf

Versatile PDF creation and manipulation for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#pdf #pdf-generation #pdf-manipulation #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-09-03
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3 open

1,382

stars

Forks: 82
Commits: 2,485 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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