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eventmachine/eventmachine

EventMachine: fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-02-28
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 200 open

4,278

stars

Forks: 633
Commits: 1,387 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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errbit/errbit

The open source error catcher that's Airbrake API compliant :ukraine:

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#airbrake #crash-reporting #error-monitoring #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-03
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 144 open

4,268

stars

Forks: 989
Commits: 4,324 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

grosser/parallel

Ruby: parallel processing made simple and fast

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-05-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 37 open

4,265

stars

Forks: 267
Commits: 880 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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flyerhzm/rails_best_practices

a code metric tool for rails projects

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-04-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-03
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 61 open

4,157

stars

Forks: 271
Commits: 1,376 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zdennis/activerecord-import

A library for bulk insertion of data into your database using ActiveRecord.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-02-26
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 54 open

4,155

stars

Forks: 620
Commits: 1,302 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

stringer-rss/stringer

A self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Vite Bundler pnpm

GitHub topics

#feed-reader #feedjira #rss #rss-reader #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-04-06
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 25 open

4,128

stars

Forks: 388
Commits: 1,949 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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voormedia/rails-erd

Generate Entity-Relationship Diagrams for Rails applications

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-09-19
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

4,101

stars

Forks: 379
Commits: 662 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bblimke/webmock

Library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-11-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 179 open

4,049

stars

Forks: 580
Commits: 1,969 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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thoughtbot/suspenders

A Rails application template with our standard defaults, optimized for deployment on Heroku.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#rails #template

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-04-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

4,040

stars

Forks: 520
Commits: 1,201 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

svenfuchs/rails-i18n

Repository for collecting Locale data for Ruby on Rails I18n as well as other interesting, Rails related I18n stuff

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-07-31
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 40 open

4,034

stars

Forks: 2,680
Commits: 2,473 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sds/overcommit

A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 35 open

4,005

stars

Forks: 286
Commits: 1,698 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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redis/redis-rb

A Ruby client library for Redis

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-02-26
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 22 open

4,004

stars

Forks: 1,029
Commits: 2,296 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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flippercloud/flipper

🐬 Beautiful, performant feature flags for Ruby.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#api #dalli #feature #feature-flag #feature-flagging #feature-flags

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-22
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 34 open

3,972

stars

Forks: 444
Commits: 3,402 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jruby/jruby

JRuby, an implementation of Ruby on the JVM

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler Cargo Maven

GitHub topics

#concurrency #invokedynamic #jruby #jvm #performance #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-09-10
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 945 open

3,921

stars

Forks: 953
Commits: 57,428 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mongodb/mongoid

The Official Ruby Object Mapper for MongoDB

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#mongodb #mongodb-driver #orm #orm-framework #ruby #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-08-26
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

3,912

stars

Forks: 1,384
Commits: 8,332 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler

Profiler for your development and production Ruby rack apps.

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-02
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 39 open

3,904

stars

Forks: 423
Commits: 953 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ankane/groupdate

The simplest way to group temporal data

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-04-18
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

3,886

stars

Forks: 240
Commits: 854 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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stefankroes/ancestry

Organise ActiveRecord model into a tree structure

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-10-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

3,884

stars

Forks: 473
Commits: 966 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ryanb/letter_opener

Preview mail in the browser instead of sending.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-04-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-09-07
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

3,837

stars

Forks: 246
Commits: 336 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

haml/haml

HTML Abstraction Markup Language - A Markup Haiku

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-06-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

3,833

stars

Forks: 589
Commits: 6,829 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cesarferreira/dryrun

☁️ Try the demo project of any Android Library

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#android #dryrun #gradle #ruby #tool

Updated: 2025-10-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

3,787

stars

Forks: 276
Commits: 179 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

laserlemon/figaro

Simple Rails app configuration

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2025-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 60 open

3,743

stars

Forks: 278
Commits: 279 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

jwt/ruby-jwt

A ruby implementation of the RFC 7519 OAuth JSON Web Token (JWT) standard.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#jwk #jwt #jwt-token #oauth-json-web #ruby #ruby-jwt

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-02-23
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

3,684

stars

Forks: 379
Commits: 1,032 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mikel/mail

A Really Ruby Mail Library

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-11-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 217 open

3,670

stars

Forks: 937
Commits: 2,062 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

aws/aws-sdk-ruby

The official AWS SDK for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#aws #aws-sdk #cloud #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-14
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 27 open

3,657

stars

Forks: 1,235
Commits: 8,263 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fatfreecrm/fat_free_crm

Ruby on Rails CRM platform

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-11-25
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 72 open

3,633

stars

Forks: 1,316
Commits: 6,966 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nesquena/rabl

General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler npm

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-08
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 121 open

3,628

stars

Forks: 333
Commits: 1,146 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

scenic-views/scenic

Versioned database views for Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #database #database-views #hacktoberfest #postgres #rails

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-21
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 35 open

3,627

stars

Forks: 243
Commits: 265 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

roidrage/lograge

An attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-03-10
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 66 open

3,573

stars

Forks: 298
Commits: 513 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mileszs/wicked_pdf

PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-07-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-06-16
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 313 open

3,572

stars

Forks: 637
Commits: 985 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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