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apneadiving/waterfall

A slice of functional programming to chain ruby services and blocks, thus providing a new approach to flow control. Make them flow!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2020-03-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-10-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

618

stars

Forks: 15
Commits: 163 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/tiny_tds

TinyTDS - Simple and fast FreeTDS bindings for Ruby using DB-Library.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#database #freetds #ruby #sql #sql-server #tinytds

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-09-19
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 38 open

616

stars

Forks: 186
Commits: 1,039 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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glejeune/Ruby-Graphviz

[MIRROR] Ruby interface to the GraphViz graphing tool

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-03-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-08-02
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 40 open

614

stars

Forks: 114
Commits: 477 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

SamSaffron/fast_blank

No description.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-02-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-03-29
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

613

stars

Forks: 36
Commits: 85 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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adamcooke/procodile

🐊 Run processes in the background (and foreground) on Mac & Linux from a Procfile (for production and/or development environments)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#heroku #process-manager #ruby

Updated: 2021-02-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

612

stars

Forks: 28
Commits: 199 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

maxdemarzi/neography

A thin Ruby wrapper to the Neo4j Rest API

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#graph-database #graphs #neo4j #neo4j-driver #neography #ruby

Updated: 2017-02-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-11-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

602

stars

Forks: 133
Commits: 715 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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enkessler/childprocess

Cross-platform Ruby library for managing child processes.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-08-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-08
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

597

stars

Forks: 79
Commits: 572 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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amerine/acts_as_tree

ActsAsTree -- Extends ActiveRecord to add simple support for organizing items into parent–children relationships.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2022-04-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-09-11
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

596

stars

Forks: 85
Commits: 193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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diasks2/pragmatic_segmenter

Pragmatic Segmenter is a rule-based sentence boundary detection gem that works out-of-the-box across many languages.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

596

stars

Forks: 55
Commits: 383 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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markbates/configatron

A super cool, simple, and feature rich configuration system for Ruby apps.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-05-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-06-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

592

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 311 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aderyabin/sniffer

Log and Analyze Outgoing HTTP Requests

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#http #ruby #sniffer

Updated: 2023-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

584

stars

Forks: 39
Commits: 140 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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codegram/spinach

Spinach is a BDD framework on top of Gherkin.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-05-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-23
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

577

stars

Forks: 64
Commits: 704 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

barsoom/attr_extras

Takes some boilerplate out of Ruby with methods like attr_initialize.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-10-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

562

stars

Forks: 28
Commits: 280 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jekyll/classifier-reborn

A general classifier module to allow Bayesian and other types of classifications. A fork of cardmagic/classifier.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#bayesian-classifier #ruby #rubyml

Updated: 2024-05-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-02-02
History: 6 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 28 open

558

stars

Forks: 111
Commits: 371 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

KnapsackPro/knapsack

Knapsack splits tests evenly across parallel CI nodes to run fast CI build and save you time.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#auto-balancing #buildkite #ci-server #circle-ci #cucumber #minitest

Updated: 2025-12-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-07-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

549

stars

Forks: 97
Commits: 692 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

olbrich/ruby-units

A unit handling library for ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#conversions #ruby #ruby-units #rubygems #temperature-units #unit-math

Updated: 2026-01-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-04-15
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

545

stars

Forks: 112
Commits: 506 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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danini-the-panini/mittsu

3D Graphics Library for Ruby.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#3d #mittsu #ruby

Updated: 2025-03-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-13
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

536

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Intrepidd/working_hours

⏰ A modern ruby gem allowing to do time calculation with business / working hours.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#business-hours

Updated: 2026-01-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

535

stars

Forks: 29
Commits: 154 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rtomayko/posix-spawn

Ruby process spawning library

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-03-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-27
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 15 open

526

stars

Forks: 60
Commits: 270 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

NARKOZ/ginatra

A web frontend for Git repositories

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#git #sinatra #web-app #web-application

Updated: 2025-12-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-05-11
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 14 open

523

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 408 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rrrene/inch

A documentation analysis tool for the Ruby language

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-01-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-11
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

519

stars

Forks: 40
Commits: 680 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

glebm/order_query

Find next / previous Active Record(s) in one query

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #keyset-paging #pagination #rails #ruby

Updated: 2025-11-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

516

stars

Forks: 21
Commits: 170 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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BaseSecrete/active_analytics

First-party, privacy-focused traffic analytics for Ruby on Rails applications.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#analytics #privacy #rails #ruby #trafic-analytics

Updated: 2025-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-03-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

515

stars

Forks: 13
Commits: 137 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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r18n/r18n

I18n tool to translate your Ruby application.

Stack

Ruby Bundler npm

Updated: 2024-12-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-19
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 3 open

513

stars

Forks: 65
Commits: 1,052 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gottfrois/link_thumbnailer

Ruby gem that fetches images and metadata from a given URL. Much like popular social website with link preview.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-05-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-08-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

510

stars

Forks: 105
Commits: 308 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

richpeck/exception_handler

Ruby on Rails Custom Error Pages

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#email-notification #exception-handler #http #http-error-pages #http-errors #middleware

Updated: 2021-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-27
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 28 open

508

stars

Forks: 68
Commits: 1,165 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

bhollis/maruku

A pure-Ruby Markdown-superset interpreter (Official Repo).

Archived

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-01-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-12-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

504

stars

Forks: 79
Commits: 738 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

pawurb/termit

Translations with speech synthesis in your terminal as a ruby gem

Archived

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#google-translate #ruby #ruby-gem #speech-synthesis #terminal #translation

Updated: 2017-05-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

504

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 234 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

fabrik42/acts_as_api

makes creating API responses in Rails easy and fun

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#api #json #models #rails #resource-serializer #ruby

Updated: 2020-10-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-06-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

501

stars

Forks: 67
Commits: 318 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

shakacode/shakapacker

Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Express React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-12-07
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

488

stars

Forks: 110
Commits: 2,394 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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