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guard/guard-livereload

Guard::LiveReload automatically reload your browser when 'view' files are modified.

Stack

JavaScript Bundler

Updated: 2022-11-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 34 open

2,106

stars

Forks: 141
Commits: 250 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

markevans/dragonfly

A Ruby gem for on-the-fly processing - suitable for image uploading in Rails, Sinatra and much more!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-03-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 71 open

2,105

stars

Forks: 241
Commits: 2,351 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

feedjira/feedjira

A feed parsing library

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#feed-parsing #parser #rss #rss-parser

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-23
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 19 open

2,101

stars

Forks: 368
Commits: 793 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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nateware/redis-objects

Map Redis types directly to Ruby objects

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-11-10
History: 6 history points
License: Artistic-2.0
Issues: 17 open

2,092

stars

Forks: 232
Commits: 599 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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savonrb/savon

Heavy metal SOAP client

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#ruby #soap #soap-client

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-07-02
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

2,086

stars

Forks: 610
Commits: 1,724 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

brendon/acts_as_list

An ActiveRecord plugin for managing lists.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-09-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

2,079

stars

Forks: 357
Commits: 558 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cloudfoundry/bosh

Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler Go modules

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-19
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 34 open

2,079

stars

Forks: 663
Commits: 22,534 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

remi/her

Her is an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) that maps REST resources to Ruby objects. It is designed to build applications that are powered by a RESTful API instead of a database.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#json-data #orm #rails #ruby

Updated: 2024-05-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 115 open

2,070

stars

Forks: 323
Commits: 919 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rubycdp/ferrum

Headless Chrome Ruby API

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#automation #chrome #chromium #developer-tools #headless #headless-chrome

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-24
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

2,064

stars

Forks: 171
Commits: 767 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

heartcombo/responders

A set of Rails responders to dry up your application

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#controllers #flash-messages #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-12-02
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

2,058

stars

Forks: 162
Commits: 470 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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test-prof/test-prof

Ruby Tests Profiling Toolbox

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #profiling #rails #rspec #ruby #testing

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

2,050

stars

Forks: 175
Commits: 820 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ruby-prof/ruby-prof

A ruby profiler. See https://ruby-prof.github.io for more information.

Stack

Ruby Bundler CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-11-12
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 4 open

2,034

stars

Forks: 210
Commits: 1,454 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

deivid-rodriguez/pry-byebug

Step-by-step debugging and stack navigation in Pry

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#debugger #pry #pry-byebug #repl #ruby

Updated: 2026-05-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-06-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 50 open

2,030

stars

Forks: 146
Commits: 706 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ruboto/ruboto

A platform for developing apps using JRuby on Android.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-05-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-06-23
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 81 open

2,029

stars

Forks: 161
Commits: 2,337 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ambethia/recaptcha

ReCaptcha helpers for ruby apps

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#captcha #rails #recaptcha #ruby #sinatra

Updated: 2026-06-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-05-26
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 50 open

2,006

stars

Forks: 437
Commits: 786 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

basecamp/local_time

Rails engine for cache-friendly, client-side local time

Stack

JavaScript Express Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

2,002

stars

Forks: 124
Commits: 190 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

whomwah/rqrcode

A Ruby library that encodes QR Codes

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#qrcode #qrcode-generator #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-02-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

2,001

stars

Forks: 241
Commits: 376 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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patterns-ai-core/langchainrb

Build LLM-powered applications in Ruby

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#agents #ai-agents #artificial-intelligence #machine-learning #ml #rubyml

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-04-18
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 74 open

2,000

stars

Forks: 265
Commits: 931 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bcrypt-ruby/bcrypt-ruby

bcrypt-ruby is a Ruby binding for the OpenBSD bcrypt() password hashing algorithm, allowing you to easily store a secure hash of your users' passwords.

Stack

C Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-02-27
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 25 open

1,993

stars

Forks: 293
Commits: 381 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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cossacklabs/themis

Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.

Stack

C Android Express React React Native Bundler Cargo CMake

GitHub topics

#asymmetric-cryptography #authentication #cryptography #cryptography-library #encryption #golang

Updated: 2026-04-24
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2014-09-13
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 31 open

1,978

stars

Forks: 159
Commits: 1,832 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

elastic/elasticsearch-ruby

Ruby integrations for Elasticsearch

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#client #elastic #elasticsearch #ruby #rubynlp #search

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-30
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 29 open

1,976

stars

Forks: 616
Commits: 3,512 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

postmodern/ruby-install

Installs Ruby, JRuby, TruffleRuby, or mruby

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#bash-script #bash-utility #installer #jruby #mruby #rubies

Updated: 2026-01-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 48 open

1,975

stars

Forks: 258
Commits: 1,340 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Shopify/identity_cache

IdentityCache is a blob level caching solution to plug into Active Record. Don't #find, #fetch!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #cache #webscale

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 43 open

1,969

stars

Forks: 175
Commits: 1,124 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

guard/listen

The Listen gem listens to file modifications and notifies you about the changes.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-11
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

1,959

stars

Forks: 254
Commits: 1,361 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ClosureTree/closure_tree

Easily and efficiently make your ActiveRecord models support hierarchies

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #ancestry #child #closure-tree #descendants #hierarchies

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-05-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 74 open

1,945

stars

Forks: 247
Commits: 1,024 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sidekiq-cron/sidekiq-cron

Scheduler / Cron for Sidekiq jobs

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#cron-jobs #ruby #ruby-gem #ruby-on-rails #scheduled-jobs #scheduler

Updated: 2026-05-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-25
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

1,945

stars

Forks: 303
Commits: 615 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rtomayko/tilt

Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-05-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-25
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

1,943

stars

Forks: 225
Commits: 848 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jeremyevans/rodauth

Ruby's Most Advanced Authentication Framework

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,937

stars

Forks: 110
Commits: 1,501 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

gocardless/statesman

A statesmanlike state machine library.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

1,911

stars

Forks: 158
Commits: 940 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hamstergem/hamster

Efficient, Immutable, Thread-Safe Collection classes for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2021-11-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-10-21
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 16 open

1,897

stars

Forks: 93
Commits: 1,865 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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