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excon/excon

Usable, fast, simple HTTP 1.1 for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#excon #http #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-10-25
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

1,174

stars

Forks: 288
Commits: 2,059 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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carmen-ruby/carmen

A repository of geographic regions for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#countries #geographic-data #iso3166 #ruby

Updated: 2022-01-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-03-17
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 19 open

1,167

stars

Forks: 270
Commits: 611 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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daddyz/phonelib

Ruby gem for phone validation and formatting using google libphonenumber library data

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#google-libphonenumber #parsing #phone-number #phone-parse #phone-validation #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-10-08
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

1,164

stars

Forks: 142
Commits: 763 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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james2m/seedbank

Seedbank gives your seed data a little structure. Create seeds for each environment, share seeds between environments and specify dependencies to load your seeds in order. All nicely integrated with simple rake tasks.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-12-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-20
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

1,146

stars

Forks: 89
Commits: 246 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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activescaffold/active_scaffold

Save time and headaches, and create a more easily maintainable set of pages, with ActiveScaffold. ActiveScaffold handles all your CRUD (create, read, update, delete) user interface needs, leaving you more time to focus on more challenging (and interesting!) problems.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-02-14
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

1,134

stars

Forks: 329
Commits: 6,876 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

itamae-kitchen/itamae

Configuration management tool inspired by Chef, but simpler and lightweight. Formerly known as Lightchef.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#chef #infrastructure #infrastructure-as-code #itamae #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 37 open

1,134

stars

Forks: 118
Commits: 1,339 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

benprew/pony

The express way to send mail from Ruby.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-04-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-23
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

1,131

stars

Forks: 50
Commits: 166 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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leejarvis/slop

Simple Lightweight Option Parsing - ✨ new contributors welcome ✨

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#beginner-friendly #command-line #easy-to-use #option-parser #ruby #simple

Updated: 2025-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-11-26
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

1,126

stars

Forks: 72
Commits: 1,242 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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exAspArk/batch-loader

:zap: Powerful tool for avoiding N+1 DB or HTTP queries

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#batching #dataloader #gem #graphql #graphql-ruby #n-plus-1

Updated: 2025-12-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-07-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

1,124

stars

Forks: 51
Commits: 136 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

red-data-tools/pycall.rb

Calling Python functions from the Ruby language

Stack

C Bundler

GitHub topics

#data-science #pycall #python #ruby #rubydatascience #rubyml

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 52 open

1,121

stars

Forks: 89
Commits: 593 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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chaps-io/gush

Fast and distributed workflow runner using ActiveJob and Redis

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activejob #graph #parallel #parallelization #queues #redis

Updated: 2025-11-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

1,101

stars

Forks: 111
Commits: 366 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ruby-grape/grape-swagger

Add OAPI/swagger v2.0 compliant documentation to your grape API

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#api #documentation #grape #oapi #ruby #swagger

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 133 open

1,101

stars

Forks: 478
Commits: 1,300 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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brendon/ranked-model

An acts_as_sortable/acts_as_list replacement built for Rails 4+

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-01-28
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

1,094

stars

Forks: 134
Commits: 209 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

floere/phony

E164 international phone number normalizing, splitting, formatting.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

1,094

stars

Forks: 237
Commits: 1,881 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

NARKOZ/gitlab

Ruby wrapper and CLI for the GitLab REST API

Stack

Ruby Vite Vue Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#gitlab #gitlab-api #gitlab-cli #ruby-gem

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-09-21
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 13 open

1,086

stars

Forks: 399
Commits: 1,024 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

berkshelf/berkshelf

A Chef Cookbook manager

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-08-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-30
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 46 open

1,069

stars

Forks: 310
Commits: 3,818 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

nikolalsvk/render_async

render_async lets you include pages asynchronously with AJAX

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#ajax #async #gem #hacktoberfest #rails #rails5

Updated: 2024-11-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-23
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

1,069

stars

Forks: 71
Commits: 366 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

amro/gibbon

Gibbon is an API wrapper for MailChimp's API

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-07-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-11-13
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

1,065

stars

Forks: 162
Commits: 548 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rgeo/rgeo

Geospatial data library for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#geolocation #proj4-library #rgeo #ruby

Updated: 2026-04-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-19
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 51 open

1,062

stars

Forks: 160
Commits: 720 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

jaimeiniesta/metainspector

Ruby gem for web scraping purposes. It scrapes a given URL, and returns you its title, meta description, meta keywords, links, images...

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-06-25
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

1,048

stars

Forks: 165
Commits: 789 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

radar/by_star

Lets you find ActiveRecord + Mongoid objects by year, month, fortnight, week and more!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-01-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-11-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

1,046

stars

Forks: 72
Commits: 445 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

michelson/lazy_high_charts

Make highcharts a la ruby , works in rails 5.X / 4.X / 3.X, and other ruby web frameworks

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler

Updated: 2023-02-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-12-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 39 open

1,044

stars

Forks: 238
Commits: 452 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

natalie-lang/natalie

a work-in-progress Ruby compiler, written in Ruby and C++

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#compiler #cpp #language #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

1,030

stars

Forks: 71
Commits: 12,492 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

noraj/haiti

:key: Hash type identifier (CLI & lib)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#ctf #ctf-tools #cyber #cybersecurity #digest #hacking

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-10-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

1,004

stars

Forks: 61
Commits: 588 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

SciRuby/sciruby

Tools for scientific computation in Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2020-02-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-06
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

1,002

stars

Forks: 77
Commits: 264 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

camping/camping

the 5k pocket full-of-gags web microframework

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-01-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 48 open

990

stars

Forks: 107
Commits: 912 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

alexch/rerun

Restarts an app when the filesystem changes. Uses growl and FSEventStream if on OS X.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-04-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-06-08
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 34 open

989

stars

Forks: 86
Commits: 260 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

getsentry/sentry-ruby

Sentry SDK for Ruby

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Svelte Vite Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#crash-reporting #crash-reports #error-handler #error-monitoring #hacktoberfest #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 90 open

989

stars

Forks: 545
Commits: 3,196 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rails/sprockets

Rack-based asset packaging system

Stack

Ruby Bundler npm

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-05-29
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 93 open

986

stars

Forks: 795
Commits: 3,553 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

airbrake/airbrake

The official Airbrake library for Ruby applications

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#airbrake #apm #capistrano #crash-reporting #delayed-job #error-monitoring

Updated: 2024-12-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-12-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

985

stars

Forks: 388
Commits: 2,424 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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