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comfy/active_link_to

Rails view helper to manage "active" state of a link

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#navigation #rails

Updated: 2024-04-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-03-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

853

stars

Forks: 84
Commits: 124 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rossta/montrose

Recurring events library for Ruby. Enumerable recurrence objects and convenient chainable interface.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#recurrence #recurring-events #ruby

Updated: 2025-01-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-31
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

852

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 553 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

wearefine/fae

CMS for Rails. For Reals.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#cms #content-management-system #hacktoberfest #rails #rails-engine #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-08-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

852

stars

Forks: 142
Commits: 3,513 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

be9/acl9

Yet another role-based authorization system for Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2025-03-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-03
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

848

stars

Forks: 111
Commits: 200 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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AndyObtiva/glimmer

DSL Framework consisting of a DSL Engine and a Data-Binding Library used in Glimmer DSL for SWT (JRuby Desktop Development GUI Framework), Glimmer DSL for Opal (Pure Ruby Web GUI), Glimmer DSL for LibUI (Prerequisite-Free Ruby Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for Tk (Ruby Tk Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for GTK (Ruby-GNOME Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for XML (& HTML), and Glimmer DSL for CSS

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#desktop #desktop-application-sdk #dsl #dsl-engine #framework #glimmer

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-12-20
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

841

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 21,536 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ankane/torch.rb

Deep learning for Ruby, powered by LibTorch

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-26
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 5 open

839

stars

Forks: 38
Commits: 1,049 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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motor-admin/motor-admin-rails

Low-code Admin panel and Business intelligence Rails engine. No DSL - configurable from the UI. Rails Admin, Active Admin, Blazer modern alternative.

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Vue Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#admin #admin-dashboard #business-intelligence #charts #crud #low-code

Updated: 2026-02-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-03-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 33 open

839

stars

Forks: 90
Commits: 566 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mrkamel/search_cop

Search engine like fulltext query support for ActiveRecord

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #fulltext-indices #fulltext-support #mysql #postgres #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

838

stars

Forks: 36
Commits: 229 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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postmodern/spidr

A versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domains, certain links or infinitely. Spidr is designed to be fast and easy to use.

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#crawler #ruby #scraper #spider #spider-links #web

Updated: 2026-01-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

836

stars

Forks: 105
Commits: 898 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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claudiob/bh

Bootstrap Helpers for Ruby

Stack

CSS Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#bh-gem #bootstrap #bootstrap-6 #bootstrap-helpers #bootstrap6 #gem

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

832

stars

Forks: 76
Commits: 369 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

commander-rb/commander

The complete solution for Ruby command-line executables

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-10-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

823

stars

Forks: 69
Commits: 911 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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restforce/restforce

A Ruby client for the Salesforce REST API.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-08-27
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 174 open

822

stars

Forks: 362
Commits: 1,248 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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interagent/pliny

An opinionated toolkit for writing excellent APIs in Ruby.

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

Updated: 2026-04-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

809

stars

Forks: 75
Commits: 1,019 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jamis/bulk_insert

Efficient bulk inserts with ActiveRecord

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2022-01-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

809

stars

Forks: 81
Commits: 118 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ruby-opencv/ruby-opencv

Versioned fork of the OpenCV gem for Ruby

Stack

C++ Bundler

Updated: 2021-04-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-08-19
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 28 open

808

stars

Forks: 126
Commits: 729 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rubyworks/facets

Ruby Facets

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#facets #gem #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-10-29
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 28 open

807

stars

Forks: 104
Commits: 1,827 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

piotrmurach/finite_machine

A minimal finite state machine with a straightforward syntax.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#conditional-transitions #finite-machine #ruby-gem #state-machine #state-transitions

Updated: 2024-03-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

801

stars

Forks: 37
Commits: 842 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dejan/auto_html

Collection of filters that transform plain text into HTML code.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-12-26
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

798

stars

Forks: 182
Commits: 511 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rubygems/gemstash

A RubyGems.org cache and private gem server

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#rubygems

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 47 open

793

stars

Forks: 139
Commits: 1,056 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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IFTTT/polo

Polo travels through your database and creates sample snapshots so you can work with real world data in development.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #database #productivity #snapshot

Updated: 2025-08-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

789

stars

Forks: 50
Commits: 116 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

boazsegev/combine_pdf

A Pure ruby library to merge PDF files, number pages and maybe more...

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#pdf #pdf-files #pdf-generation #pdf-merge #ruby

Updated: 2025-04-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 62 open

786

stars

Forks: 180
Commits: 440 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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dcparker/ruby-gmail

A Rubyesque interface to Gmail. Connect to Gmail via IMAP and manipulate emails and labels. Send email with your Gmail account via SMTP. Includes full support for parsing and generating MIME messages.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2019-06-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-11-19
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 26 open

784

stars

Forks: 120
Commits: 93 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sevenwire/forgery

Easy and customizable generation of forged data.

Archived

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2020-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-02-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

782

stars

Forks: 101
Commits: 294 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/access-granted

Multi-role and whitelist based authorization gem for Rails (and not only Rails!)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#access-control #authorization #cancan #permissions #rails #ruby

Updated: 2024-05-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-10-11
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

778

stars

Forks: 40
Commits: 198 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

hexgnu/linkedin

Ruby wrapper for the LinkedIn API

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2022-02-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-11-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 33 open

771

stars

Forks: 399
Commits: 435 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

seattlerb/flay

Flay analyzes code for structural similarities. Differences in literal values, variable, class, method names, whitespace, programming style, braces vs do/end, etc are all ignored.

Stack

Ruby

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-17
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 5 open

770

stars

Forks: 57
Commits: 162 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

stimulusreflex/cable_ready

Use simple commands on the server to control client browsers in real-time

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Vite Vue Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#action-cable #hacktoberfest #javascript #real-time #ruby #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2025-06-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

770

stars

Forks: 75
Commits: 628 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

braintree/runbook

A framework for gradual system automation

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#automation #automation-framework #devops #devops-tools #operations #ops

Updated: 2023-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-14
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

768

stars

Forks: 40
Commits: 324 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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podigee/device_detector

DeviceDetector is a precise and fast user agent parser and device detector written in Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-12-18
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 6 open

765

stars

Forks: 119
Commits: 268 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

excid3/madmin

A robust Admin Interface for Ruby on Rails apps

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Bundler Yarn

GitHub topics

#admin #admin-dashboard #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-09-11
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

761

stars

Forks: 102
Commits: 525 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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