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cypriss/mutations

Compose your business logic into commands that sanitize and validate input.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-01-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-10-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

1,396

stars

Forks: 92
Commits: 272 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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

sdsykes/fastimage

FastImage finds the size or type of an image given its uri by fetching as little as needed

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-06-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

1,380

stars

Forks: 119
Commits: 387 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

louismullie/treat

Natural language processing framework for Ruby.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-05-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-01-18
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 35 open

1,367

stars

Forks: 122
Commits: 1,037 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bridgetownrb/bridgetown

A next-generation progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#blog-engine #bridgetown #documentation-tool #esbuild #jamstack #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-02
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 44 open

1,366

stars

Forks: 132
Commits: 1,331 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pry/pry-rails

Rails >= 3 pry initializer

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-06-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-27
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

1,361

stars

Forks: 91
Commits: 212 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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felipecsl/wombat

Lightweight Ruby web crawler/scraper with an elegant DSL which extracts structured data from pages.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#crawler #dsl #ruby #scraper

Updated: 2026-04-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-14
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

1,359

stars

Forks: 128
Commits: 300 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Mange/roadie

Making HTML emails comfortable for the Ruby rockstars

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-12-29
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

1,349

stars

Forks: 84
Commits: 671 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bokmann/business_time

Support for doing time math in business hours and days

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-04-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-04-13
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 31 open

1,330

stars

Forks: 217
Commits: 375 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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JoshCheek/seeing_is_believing

Displays the results of every line of code in your file

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-03-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-31
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 30 open

1,317

stars

Forks: 54
Commits: 1,360 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Shopify/job-iteration

Makes your background jobs interruptible and resumable by design.

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-06-13
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 53 open

1,316

stars

Forks: 61
Commits: 1,061 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

matthuhiggins/foreigner

Adds foreign key helpers to migrations and correctly dumps foreign keys to schema.rb

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2019-02-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-04-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

1,315

stars

Forks: 122
Commits: 285 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

procore-oss/blueprinter

Simple, Fast, and Declarative Serialization Library for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#json #presenter #rails #resource-serializer #ruby #serializer

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-07-21
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

1,313

stars

Forks: 117
Commits: 950 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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samg/diffy

Easy Diffing in Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-06-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-06-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 40 open

1,306

stars

Forks: 104
Commits: 232 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fazibear/colorize

Ruby string class extension. It add some methods to set color, background color and text effect on console easier using ANSI escape sequences.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#ansi-escape-sequences #gem #ruby

Updated: 2024-05-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-04-22
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 4 open

1,285

stars

Forks: 141
Commits: 242 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

diasks2/ruby-nlp

A collection of links to Ruby Natural Language Processing (NLP) libraries, tools and software

Updated: 2023-03-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-23
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 2 open

1,284

stars

Forks: 105
Commits: 114 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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freerange/mocha

A mocking and stubbing library for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#minitest #mock #ruby #stub #test-unit #testing

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-07-13
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 126 open

1,284

stars

Forks: 159
Commits: 2,050 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

davetron5000/gli

Make awesome command-line applications the easy way

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-03-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-25
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 10 open

1,274

stars

Forks: 103
Commits: 679 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jasonlong/geo_pattern

Create beautiful generative geometric background images from a string.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#generative #procedural #ruby #visualization

Updated: 2025-04-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-25
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

1,272

stars

Forks: 86
Commits: 352 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

markets/invisible_captcha

🍯 Unobtrusive and flexible spam protection for Rails apps

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#anti-spam #captcha #honeypot #honeypot-field #rails #security

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-06-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

1,254

stars

Forks: 67
Commits: 254 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mbleigh/seed-fu

Advanced seed data handling for Rails, combining the best practices of several methods together.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2022-08-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-04-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 58 open

1,232

stars

Forks: 155
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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brentd/xray-rails

☠️ A development tool that reveals your UI's bones

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2024-12-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-10-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 33 open

1,214

stars

Forks: 76
Commits: 239 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ai/autoprefixer-rails

Autoprefixer for Ruby and Ruby on Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2025-04-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-04-04
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

1,210

stars

Forks: 109
Commits: 1,038 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

drhenner/ror_ecommerce

Ruby on Rails Ecommerce platform, perfect for your small business solution.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Vite Bundler npm

Updated: 2026-03-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

1,209

stars

Forks: 402
Commits: 1,775 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent

New Relic RPM Ruby Agent

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#agent #apm-agent #hacktoberfest #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-07-30
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 85 open

1,208

stars

Forks: 609
Commits: 22,427 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

okuramasafumi/alba

Alba is a JSON serializer for Ruby, JRuby and TruffleRuby.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #json #json-serialization #json-serializer #performance #presenter

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-01-21
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

1,205

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 1,383 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ankane/ahoy_email

First-party email analytics for Rails

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#analytics #first-party-analytics #rails

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-04-28
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

1,195

stars

Forks: 144
Commits: 547 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

cgriego/active_attr

What ActiveModel left out

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activemodel #models #rails

Updated: 2026-03-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-29
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 51 open

1,194

stars

Forks: 91
Commits: 378 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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djezzzl/database_consistency

The tool to avoid various issues due to inconsistencies and inefficiencies between a database schema and application models.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#activerecord #consistency #database #optimization #performance #rails

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-20
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

1,193

stars

Forks: 67
Commits: 434 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

kostya/eye

Process monitoring tool. Inspired from Bluepill and God.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#daemonize #monitoring #process-monitor #tool

Updated: 2021-11-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-11-26
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

1,193

stars

Forks: 87
Commits: 1,340 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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