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eval/envied

Ensures presence and type of your app's ENV-variables (mirror)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#environment-variables #heroku #rails #ruby

Updated: 2025-02-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

330

stars

Forks: 41
Commits: 324 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

janlelis/whirly

Colorful Terminal Spinner for Ruby 😀︎

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#cli-spinners #hacktoberfest #ruby #spinner #spinner-frames #spinner-icon

Updated: 2025-12-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-09-23
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

330

stars

Forks: 14
Commits: 90 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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codemancers/rapidfire

Making dynamic surveys should be easy!

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#rails #ruby #ruby-on-rails #survey-app #survey-form #survey-solutions

Updated: 2024-12-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

328

stars

Forks: 140
Commits: 375 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rr/rr

RR is a test double framework that features a rich selection of double techniques and a terse syntax. ⛺

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-06-08
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 25 open

327

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 1,610 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

alekseyl/niceql

niceql gem repo. Nice, colorized SQL formatting in ruby.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-09-08
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

326

stars

Forks: 13
Commits: 97 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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cjheath/treetop

A Ruby-based parsing DSL based on parsing expression grammars.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-11-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-12-31
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

316

stars

Forks: 25
Commits: 863 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mongoid/mongoid_search

Simple full text search for Mongoid ORM

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-02-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-09-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

315

stars

Forks: 112
Commits: 237 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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maxim/skeptick

Better ImageMagick for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#image-processing #imagemagick #ruby

Updated: 2015-03-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-14
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

314

stars

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

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kenpratt/wikipedia-client

Ruby client for the Wikipedia API

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-02-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-02-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

309

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 243 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

honeybadger-io/incoming

Incoming! helps you receive email in your Rack apps.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-02-25
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

308

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 180 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

seamusabshere/data_miner

Download, unpack from a ZIP/TAR/GZ/BZ2 archive, parse, correct, convert units and import Google Spreadsheets, XLS, ODS, XML, CSV, HTML, etc. into your ActiveRecord models. Uses RemoteTable gem internally.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2014-02-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-08-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

305

stars

Forks: 18
Commits: 519 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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googleads/google-api-ads-ruby

Ad Manager SOAP API Client Libraries for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-11
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 8 open

303

stars

Forks: 221
Commits: 773 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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franckverrot/activevalidators

Collection of ActiveModel/ActiveRecord validators

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-10-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-11-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

302

stars

Forks: 48
Commits: 314 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

benedikt/mongoid-tree

A tree structure for Mongoid documents using the materialized path pattern

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-08-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-07-25
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

300

stars

Forks: 66
Commits: 303 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ryanckulp/speedrail

Rails 8 app template: Devise auth, Stripe billing, Tailwind CSS, admin panel, SEO helpers, etc

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#mvp-template #rails #rails-template #rails8 #ruby-on-rails-template

Updated: 2025-05-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-01-31
History: 42 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

291

stars

Forks: 38
Commits: 433 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Retrospring/retrospring

Q/A based social network

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #justask #questions-and-answers #rails #retrospring #ruby

Updated: 2025-08-31
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-08-01
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 51 open

285

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 6,508 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

railsware/global

"Global" provides accessor methods for your configuration data

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-12-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-14
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

283

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 132 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fatkodima/sidekiq-iteration

Make your long-running sidekiq jobs interruptible and resumable.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #gem #rails #ruby #sidekiq

Updated: 2026-02-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-11-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

281

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 60 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bensie/sshkey

SSH private and public key generator in pure Ruby (RSA & DSA)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-12-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

279

stars

Forks: 45
Commits: 246 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

febeling/rb-libsvm

Ruby language bindings for LIBSVM

Stack

C++ Bundler

GitHub topics

#libsvm #machine-learning #ml #ruby #ruby-bindings #ruby-language-bindings

Updated: 2023-12-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-11-19
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 2 open

279

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 246 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

fatkodima/fast_count

Quickly get a count estimation for large tables (>99% of accuracy for PostgreSQL).

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#gem #mysql #performance #postgresql #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-03-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-04-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

278

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 26 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Gokul595/api_guard

JWT authentication solution for Rails APIs

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#api #api-auth #api-authentication #api-guard #authentication #jwt

Updated: 2023-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-03-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

278

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 192 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

JackDanger/permanent_records

Rails Plugin - soft-delete your ActiveRecord records. It's like an explicit version of ActsAsParanoid

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-01-31
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

273

stars

Forks: 58
Commits: 320 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

patriciomacadden/hobbit

A minimalistic microframework built on top of Rack.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2020-12-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-11
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

271

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 138 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

didww/credit_card_validations

:credit_card: ruby gem for validating credit cards, generating credit card numbers, Luhn checks

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#credit-card #e-commerce #rails #validation

Updated: 2026-06-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-03-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

270

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 330 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

larskanis/fxruby

FXRuby is an extension module for Ruby that provides an interface to the FOX GUI toolkit.

Stack

C++ Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-02-02
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 15 open

269

stars

Forks: 18
Commits: 690 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bigbinary/wheel

Don't reinvent the wheel for every new Rails project. Use sane Defaults.

Archived

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Vite Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#boilerplate #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-05-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

266

stars

Forks: 196
Commits: 1,269 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rails/actionpack-action_caching

Action caching for Action Pack (removed from core in Rails 4.0)

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2022-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-10-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

266

stars

Forks: 96
Commits: 130 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

lostisland/sawyer

Secret User Agent of HTTP

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

265

stars

Forks: 66
Commits: 267 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

IFTTT/kashmir

Kashmir is a Ruby DSL that makes serializing and caching objects a snap.

Archived

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-04-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

264

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 85 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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