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public-activity/public_activity

Easy activity tracking for models - similar to Github's Public Activity

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #activity-stream #hackertoberfest #news-feed #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-02-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 22 open

2,990

stars

Forks: 329
Commits: 589 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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DatabaseCleaner/database_cleaner

Strategies for cleaning databases in Ruby. Can be used to ensure a clean state for testing.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#database-cleaner #ruby #testing #testing-tools

Updated: 2026-06-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-02-27
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

2,966

stars

Forks: 485
Commits: 1,221 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pdfkit/pdfkit

A Ruby gem to transform HTML + CSS into PDFs using the command-line utility wkhtmltopdf

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#html-to-pdf #middleware #pdfkit #ruby #wkhtmltopdf

Updated: 2023-08-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-05-21
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

2,940

stars

Forks: 418
Commits: 490 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rubysherpas/paranoia

acts_as_paranoid for Rails 5, 6 and 7

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2025-11-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-07
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 105 open

2,914

stars

Forks: 524
Commits: 537 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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postmodern/chruby

Changes the current Ruby

Stack

Shell

Updated: 2025-10-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-08-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 99 open

2,912

stars

Forks: 183
Commits: 938 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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fetlife/rollout

Feature flippers.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#feature-flags #percentage #redis #rollout #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-07-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

2,903

stars

Forks: 211
Commits: 417 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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RubyMoney/money

A Ruby Library for dealing with money and currency conversion.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#exchange-rate #money #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-10-31
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

2,883

stars

Forks: 646
Commits: 1,914 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

roo-rb/roo

Roo provides an interface to spreadsheets of several sorts.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 122 open

2,878

stars

Forks: 501
Commits: 1,182 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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minimagick/minimagick

mini replacement for RMagick

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-03-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

2,863

stars

Forks: 349
Commits: 832 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rails/spring

Rails application preloader

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-12-29
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 55 open

2,815

stars

Forks: 342
Commits: 984 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kpumuk/meta-tags

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Ruby on Rails applications.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#meta-tags #opengraph #opengraph-tags #rails #ruby #search-engine-optimization

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-09-17
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

2,801

stars

Forks: 280
Commits: 867 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rubysec/bundler-audit

Patch-level verification for Bundler

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#bundler-audit #dependency-checker #patch-management #ruby #ruby-advisory-db #security

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-10
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 48 open

2,762

stars

Forks: 247
Commits: 753 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rails/bootsnap

Boot large Ruby/Rails apps faster

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#computers #gem #performance #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-01-18
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

2,739

stars

Forks: 211
Commits: 850 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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comfy/comfortable-mexican-sofa

ComfortableMexicanSofa is a powerful Ruby on Rails 5.2+ CMS (Content Management System) Engine

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#cms #rails #rails-engine #ruby

Updated: 2024-05-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 52 open

2,708

stars

Forks: 616
Commits: 2,603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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excid3/noticed

Notifications for Ruby on Rails applications

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#email #notifications #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-07-27
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

2,705

stars

Forks: 202
Commits: 677 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kanwei/algorithms

Ruby algorithms and data structures. C extensions

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-02-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-06-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

2,696

stars

Forks: 340
Commits: 246 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

danmayer/coverband

Ruby production code coverage collection and reporting (line of code usage)

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#coverage-data #coverage-report #coverband #rack-middleware #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

2,690

stars

Forks: 170
Commits: 1,873 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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influitive/apartment

Database multi-tenancy for Rack (and Rails) applications

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2024-06-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-11-29
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 136 open

2,682

stars

Forks: 455
Commits: 760 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

prontolabs/pronto

Quick automated code review of your changes

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#automated-analysis #automated-review #bitbucket #formatter #gitlab #linters

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-02
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

2,672

stars

Forks: 250
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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randym/axlsx

xlsx generation with charts, images, automated column width, customizable styles and full schema validation. Axlsx excels at helping you generate beautiful Office Open XML Spreadsheet documents without having to understand the entire ECMA specification. Check out the README for some examples of how easy it is. Best of all, you can validate your xlsx file before serialization so you know for sure that anything generated is going to load on your client's machine.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-02-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-20
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 218 open

2,629

stars

Forks: 684
Commits: 1,301 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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brandonhilkert/sucker_punch

Sucker Punch is a Ruby asynchronous processing library using concurrent-ruby, heavily influenced by Sidekiq and girl_friday.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-12-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-01-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

2,628

stars

Forks: 108
Commits: 339 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pickhardt/betty

Friendly English-like interface for your command line. Don't remember a command? Ask Betty.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2021-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-04
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 49 open

2,601

stars

Forks: 210
Commits: 313 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rbspy/rbspy

Sampling CPU profiler for Ruby

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cpu #profilers #ruby #rust

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-21
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

2,573

stars

Forks: 106
Commits: 1,051 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

piotrmurach/tty

Toolkit for developing sleek command line apps.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#cli #cli-app #ruby-cli #ruby-gem #terminal #tty-components

Updated: 2022-12-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-09-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

2,529

stars

Forks: 82
Commits: 1,236 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lisamelton/video_transcoding

Tools to transcode, inspect and convert videos.

Stack

Ruby

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-05-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

2,517

stars

Forks: 167
Commits: 359 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

wardencommunity/warden

General Rack Authentication Framework

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-04-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 22 open

2,514

stars

Forks: 205
Commits: 406 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Apipie/apipie-rails

Ruby on Rails API documentation tool

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-30
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 232 open

2,506

stars

Forks: 454
Commits: 1,031 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kjvarga/sitemap_generator

SitemapGenerator is a framework-agnostic XML Sitemap generator written in Ruby with automatic Rails integration. It supports Video, News, Image, Mobile, PageMap and Alternate Links sitemap extensions and includes Rake tasks for managing your sitemaps, as well as many other great features.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#sitemaps

Updated: 2026-08-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-07-01
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

2,492

stars

Forks: 276
Commits: 867 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

trailblazer/reform

Form objects decoupled from models.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 41 open

2,487

stars

Forks: 180
Commits: 1,407 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ice-cube-ruby/ice_cube

Ruby Date Recurrence Library - Allows easy creation of recurrence rules and fast querying

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#ruby

Updated: 2026-01-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-03-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 58 open

2,469

stars

Forks: 355
Commits: 978 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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