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thredded/thredded

The best Rails forums engine ever.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#forums #message-board #rails #rails-engine #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-04-21
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 36 open

1,597

stars

Forks: 214
Commits: 1,814 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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propublica/upton

A batteries-included framework for easy web-scraping. Just add CSS! (Or do more.)

Stack

HTML Bundler

Updated: 2018-12-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-05-29
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

1,594

stars

Forks: 108
Commits: 175 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ElMassimo/vite_ruby

⚡️ Vite.js in Ruby, bringing joy to your JavaScript experience

Stack

Ruby Express React Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#frontend-tooling #hanami #integration #plugin #rack #rails

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 33 open

1,590

stars

Forks: 153
Commits: 770 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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

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palkan/action_policy

Authorization framework for Ruby/Rails applications

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Astro Express React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#authorization #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-02-12
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

1,563

stars

Forks: 89
Commits: 583 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

RailsEventStore/rails_event_store

A Ruby implementation of an Event Store based on Active Record

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#aggregate-root #cqrs #cqrs-es #ddd #domain-driven-design #event-driven

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-03-31
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

1,555

stars

Forks: 130
Commits: 8,236 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

benbalter/word-to-markdown

A ruby gem to liberate content from Microsoft Word documents

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#converter #libreoffice #markdown #microsoft-word #ruby #word

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

1,552

stars

Forks: 157
Commits: 403 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

geminabox/geminabox

Really simple rubygem hosting

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#gem #hacktoberfest #ruby #rubygems

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-01-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

1,548

stars

Forks: 323
Commits: 659 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tute/merit

Reputation engine for Rails apps

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2025-08-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-21
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1 open

1,529

stars

Forks: 195
Commits: 513 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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yippee-fun/phlex

Object-oriented views in Ruby.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#component-architecture #component-library #phlex #ruby #server-side-rendering #ssr

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-06-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

1,529

stars

Forks: 107
Commits: 1,308 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

charlotte-ruby/impressionist

Rails Plugin that tracks impressions and page views

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#counts-impressions #impression #impressions-table #logging-impressions #ruby #unique-impressions

Updated: 2026-02-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 81 open

1,527

stars

Forks: 306
Commits: 443 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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assaf/vanity

Experiment Driven Development for Ruby

Archived

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-03-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-11-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 36 open

1,526

stars

Forks: 267
Commits: 877 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website 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

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igrigorik/decisiontree

ID3-based implementation of the ML Decision Tree algorithm

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#decision-tree #machine-learning #ruby #rubyml

Updated: 2018-10-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-02-23
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 10 open

1,497

stars

Forks: 132
Commits: 71 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

igorkasyanchuk/rails_db

Rails Database Viewer and SQL Query Runner

Stack

JavaScript Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

1,496

stars

Forks: 108
Commits: 468 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

brianmario/yajl-ruby

A streaming JSON parsing and encoding library for Ruby (C bindings to yajl)

Stack

C Bundler

Updated: 2025-12-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-04-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 74 open

1,489

stars

Forks: 178
Commits: 791 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

reenhanced/gitreflow

Reflow automatically creates pull requests, ensures the code review is approved, and squash merges finished branches to master with a great commit message template.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#git #git-workflow #hacktoberfest #ruby #workflow

Updated: 2022-03-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

1,487

stars

Forks: 58
Commits: 219 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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prettier/plugin-ruby

Prettier Ruby Plugin

Stack

JavaScript Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#prettier #prettier-plugin #ruby

Updated: 2025-03-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-05-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

1,482

stars

Forks: 105
Commits: 2,748 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rubber/rubber

A capistrano/rails plugin that makes it easy to deploy/manage/scale to various service providers, including EC2, DigitalOcean, vSphere, and bare metal servers.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2020-11-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-03-28
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 108 open

1,450

stars

Forks: 242
Commits: 2,491 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rharriso/bower-rails

Bundler-like DSL + rake tasks for Bower on Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2023-04-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-10-21
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 35 open

1,448

stars

Forks: 125
Commits: 367 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gottfrois/dashing-rails

The exceptionally handsome dashboard framework for Rails.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2020-01-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-03
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

1,447

stars

Forks: 144
Commits: 189 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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facebookarchive/instagram-ruby-gem

The official gem for the Instagram API

Archived

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2019-02-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-02
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

1,446

stars

Forks: 610
Commits: 221 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jsonapi-serializer/jsonapi-serializer

A fast JSON:API serializer for Ruby (fork of Netflix/fast_jsonapi)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-01-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-02-01
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 66 open

1,446

stars

Forks: 144
Commits: 416 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Shopify/graphql-batch

A query batching executor for the graphql gem

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#batch #graphql #promise

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-20
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

1,443

stars

Forks: 108
Commits: 281 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mongodb/mongo-ruby-driver

The Official MongoDB Ruby Driver

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#mongodb #mongodb-driver #nosql #ruby #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-11-22
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

1,429

stars

Forks: 536
Commits: 7,258 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ruby-amqp/bunny

Bunny is a popular, easy to use, mature Ruby client for RabbitMQ

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#amqp #amqp0-9-1 #messaging #rabbitmq #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-04-20
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 5 open

1,424

stars

Forks: 315
Commits: 2,624 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rroblak/seed_dump

Rails task to dump your data to db/seeds.rb

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-05-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-07-27
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,413

stars

Forks: 221
Commits: 308 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

kmuto/review

Re:VIEW is flexible document format/conversion system

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-01-16
History: 6 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 91 open

1,409

stars

Forks: 215
Commits: 4,340 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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