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RubyCrypto/rbnacl

Ruby FFI binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library (a.k.a. libsodium)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#chacha20 #cryptography #ed25519 #libsodium #nacl #ruby

Updated: 2025-10-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

985

stars

Forks: 95
Commits: 660 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rails-sqlserver/activerecord-sqlserver-adapter

SQL Server Adapter For Rails

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #database #freetds #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-09-29
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 25 open

980

stars

Forks: 556
Commits: 2,382 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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boazsegev/iodine

iodine - HTTP / WebSockets Server for Ruby with Pub/Sub support

Stack

C Bundler

GitHub topics

#clustering #high-performance #http #message-bus #multithreading #pubsub

Updated: 2026-08-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

972

stars

Forks: 55
Commits: 2,083 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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seattlerb/flog

Flog reports the most tortured code in an easy to read pain report. The higher the score, the more pain the code is in.

Stack

Ruby

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-08-01
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 3 open

968

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 233 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cucumber/aruba

Test command-line applications with Cucumber-Ruby, RSpec or Minitest.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#bdd #cucumber #ruby #shell #tdd #tidelift

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-02-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

966

stars

Forks: 162
Commits: 3,185 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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janko/image_processing

Web-friendly image processing macros for libvips and ImageMagick

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#image-processing #imagemagick #minimagick #ruby #thumbnails #vips

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-10-03
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

961

stars

Forks: 91
Commits: 438 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jeremyw/stamp

Date and time formatting for humans.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-06-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

959

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 103 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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weppos/breadcrumbs_on_rails

A simple Ruby on Rails plugin for creating and managing a breadcrumb navigation.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2024-12-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-05-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

949

stars

Forks: 187
Commits: 172 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ohler55/agoo

A High Performance HTTP Server for Ruby

Stack

C Bundler

GitHub topics

#benchmark #clustering #clusters #fast #graphql #graphql-server

Updated: 2026-05-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

934

stars

Forks: 40
Commits: 322 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ruby/rdoc

RDoc produces HTML and online documentation for Ruby projects.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#documentation-tool #hacktoberfest #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-02-28
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 168 open

927

stars

Forks: 468
Commits: 4,181 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

janlelis/irbtools

Improvements for Ruby's IRB console 💎︎

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#developer-tools #irb #ruby #ruby-console #terminal

Updated: 2025-12-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

925

stars

Forks: 25
Commits: 390 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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SciRuby/iruby

Official gem repository: Ruby kernel for Jupyter/IPython Notebook

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#interactive #jupyter #repl #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 49 open

924

stars

Forks: 35
Commits: 776 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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palkan/anyway_config

Configuration library for Ruby gems and applications

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#configuration #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-20
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

915

stars

Forks: 62
Commits: 437 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ohler55/ox

Ruby Optimized XML Parser

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

913

stars

Forks: 81
Commits: 856 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

igrigorik/http-2

Pure Ruby implementation of HTTP/2 protocol

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

909

stars

Forks: 70
Commits: 566 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

keepcosmos/terjira

Terjira is a very interactive and easy to use CLI tool for Jira.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#agile #cli #command-line #command-line-app #command-line-tool #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2023-03-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-27
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

909

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 154 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

amatsuda/traceroute

A Rake task gem that helps you find the unused routes and controller actions for your Rails 3+ app

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2025-04-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-05-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

904

stars

Forks: 37
Commits: 171 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

libvips/ruby-vips

Ruby extension for the libvips image processing library.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#image-processing #libvips #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

903

stars

Forks: 64
Commits: 744 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

arches/table_print

The best data slicer! Watch a 3 minute screencast at http://tableprintgem.com

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-03-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 31 open

902

stars

Forks: 42
Commits: 282 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

balvig/spyke

Interact with REST services in an ActiveRecord-like manner

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #api #faraday #json #rest #rest-api

Updated: 2025-11-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-13
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

902

stars

Forks: 65
Commits: 334 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

lassebunk/gretel

Flexible Ruby on Rails breadcrumbs plugin.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2024-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-26
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

890

stars

Forks: 115
Commits: 398 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

codeplant/simple-navigation

A ruby gem for creating navigations (with multiple levels) for your Rails, Sinatra or Padrino applications. Render your navigation as html list, link list or breadcrumbs.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#menu #navigation #padrino #rails #ruby #sinatra

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-03-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

886

stars

Forks: 137
Commits: 807 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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adomokos/light-service

Series of Actions with an emphasis on simplicity.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#aop #ruby #workflow

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-10-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

882

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 763 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

holidays/holidays

A collection of Ruby methods to deal with statutory and other holidays. You deserve a holiday!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-11-20
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 13 open

878

stars

Forks: 287
Commits: 1,158 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rubocop/rubocop-rails

A RuboCop extension focused on enforcing Rails best practices and coding conventions.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#code-formatter #hacktoberfest #linter #rails #rubocop #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-06-10
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 193 open

877

stars

Forks: 316
Commits: 2,603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

heartcombo/mail_form

Send e-mail straight from forms in Rails with I18n, validations, attachments and request information.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-03-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-04-03
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

871

stars

Forks: 64
Commits: 228 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ged/ruby-pg

A PostgreSQL client library for Ruby

Stack

C Bundler .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c #client #database #postgresql #rdbms #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-01-07
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 16 open

869

stars

Forks: 200
Commits: 2,428 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rubychan/coderay

Fast and easy syntax highlighting for selected languages, written in Ruby.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-09-26
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 127 open

866

stars

Forks: 112
Commits: 1,245 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

automaticmode/active_workflow

Polyglot workflows without leaving the comfort of your technology stack.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activeworkflow #agents #data-engineering #data-ops #event-driven #ifttt

Updated: 2023-04-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-03-29
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2 open

864

stars

Forks: 75
Commits: 201 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rubocop/rubocop-rspec

Code style checking for RSpec files.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#lint #rspec #rubocop #ruby #static-analysis #testing

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-26
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 94 open

859

stars

Forks: 299
Commits: 3,097 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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