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kaminari/kaminari

⚡ A Scope & Engine based, clean, powerful, customizable and sophisticated paginator for Ruby webapps

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#kaminari #pagination #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-02-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-02-05
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 76 open

8,667

stars

Forks: 1,073
Commits: 1,714 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

xberg-io/kreuzberg

A polyglot document intelligence framework with a Rust core. Extract text, metadata, images, and structured information from PDFs, Office documents, images, and 97+ formats. Available for Rust, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, PHP, Elixir, C#, R, C, TypeScript (Node/Bun/Wasm/Deno)- or use via CLI, REST API, or MCP server.

Stack

Rust Android Axum pytest Shelf Bundler Cargo Composer

GitHub topics

#bun #csharp #document-intelligence #elixir #ffi #golang

Updated: 2026-06-24
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-01-31
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 13 open

8,545

stars

Forks: 503
Commits: 6,297 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg

Stack

Rust Android Axum pytest Shelf Bundler Cargo Composer

GitHub topics

#bun #csharp #document-intelligence #elixir #ffi #golang

Updated: 2026-06-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2025-01-31
History: 27 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 13 open

8,536

stars

Forks: 502
Commits: 6,280 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

varvet/pundit

Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#ruby

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-11-04
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

8,521

stars

Forks: 640
Commits: 768 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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basecamp/fizzy

Kanban as it should be. Not as it has been.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#hotwire #kanban #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2024-06-21
History: 137 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 89 open

8,251

stars

Forks: 1,204
Commits: 10,260 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +7 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +27 +0.3%

Website GitHub

heartcombo/simple_form

Forms made easy for Rails! It's tied to a simple DSL, with no opinion on markup.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#dsl #form-builder #rails #rails-helper #ruby

Updated: 2026-04-01
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-18
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 37 open

8,230

stars

Forks: 1,292
Commits: 2,118 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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thoughtbot/factory_bot

A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#factories #factory-bot #factory-girl #fixtures #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-05-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 83 open

8,169

stars

Forks: 2,553
Commits: 1,320 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

omniauth/omniauth

OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#authentication #hacktoberfest #omniauth #ruby

Updated: 2026-02-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-03-25
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 105 open

8,103

stars

Forks: 973
Commits: 1,481 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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puma/puma

A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#multithreading #rack #ruby #server

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-01-28
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 87 open

7,916

stars

Forks: 1,502
Commits: 4,414 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

github/scientist

:microscope: A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#refactoring #ruby #rubygem #scientist

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

7,759

stars

Forks: 505
Commits: 256 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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github-changelog-generator/github-changelog-generator

Automatically generate change log from your tags, issues, labels and pull requests on GitHub.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#changelog #changelog-generator #generator #github-api #github-extension #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-03-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-31
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 129 open

7,537

stars

Forks: 841
Commits: 1,837 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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presidentbeef/brakeman

A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#brakeman #rails #ruby #security #security-audit #security-tools

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-27
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 116 open

7,274

stars

Forks: 779
Commits: 4,241 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

paper-trail-gem/paper_trail

Track changes to your rails models

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #audit #log #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-05-27
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

7,029

stars

Forks: 908
Commits: 2,427 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pry/pry

A runtime developer console and IRB alternative with powerful introspection capabilities.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#console #debugger #introspection #irb #pry #reflection

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-12-07
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 125 open

6,839

stars

Forks: 609
Commits: 4,561 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sj26/mailcatcher

Catches mail and serves it through a dream.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#development #devtools #mail #rails #ruby #rubygems

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-25
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 43 open

6,779

stars

Forks: 605
Commits: 640 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

reactjs/react-rails

Integrate React.js with Rails views and controllers, the asset pipeline, or webpacker.

Stack

JavaScript Express React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#jsx #rails #react #react-rails #ruby #sprockets

Updated: 2026-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-25
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 38 open

6,774

stars

Forks: 739
Commits: 1,536 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bkeepers/dotenv

A Ruby gem to load environment variables from `.env`.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#dotenv #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-24
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

6,764

stars

Forks: 516
Commits: 815 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rubocop/rails-style-guide

A community-driven Ruby on Rails style guide

GitHub topics

#rails #rubocop #ruby #styleguide

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-09-25
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 46 open

6,505

stars

Forks: 1,047
Commits: 495 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

norman/friendly_id

FriendlyId is the “Swiss Army bulldozer” of slugging and permalink plugins for ActiveRecord. It allows you to create pretty URL’s and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids for ActiveRecord models.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#friendly-url #plugin #rails #ruby #slug

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-01-08
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 31 open

6,223

stars

Forks: 591
Commits: 1,631 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zammad/zammad

Zammad is a web based open source helpdesk/customer support system.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Vite Vue Bundler npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#coffeescript #customer-care #customer-support #graphql #helpdesk #javascript

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-04-10
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 456 open

5,929

stars

Forks: 1,057
Commits: 20,073 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jnunemaker/httparty

:tada: Makes http fun again!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#http #httparty #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-07-27
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 49 open

5,901

stars

Forks: 975
Commits: 1,376 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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activerecord-hackery/ransack

Search everywhere and in a hurry!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #rails #ruby #ruby-gem #ruby-library #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-03-31
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

5,859

stars

Forks: 817
Commits: 1,976 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ruby-concurrency/concurrent-ruby

Modern concurrency tools including agents, futures, promises, thread pools, supervisors, and more. Inspired by Erlang, Clojure, Scala, Go, Java, JavaScript, and classic concurrency patterns.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#concurrency #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-23
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 54 open

5,835

stars

Forks: 422
Commits: 3,203 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rack/rack-attack

Rack middleware for blocking & throttling

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#rack #rack-attack #rack-middleware #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

5,763

stars

Forks: 346
Commits: 884 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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fastruby/fast-ruby

:dash: Writing Fast Ruby :heart_eyes: -- Collect Common Ruby idioms.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#benchmark-ips #hacktoberfest #performance-optimization #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-10-13
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 22 open

5,734

stars

Forks: 369
Commits: 308 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

mislav/will_paginate

Pagination library for Rails and other Ruby applications

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#pagination #pagination-library #plugin #rails #ruby #sequel

Updated: 2025-11-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-02-05
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 46 open

5,680

stars

Forks: 854
Commits: 788 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rmosolgo/graphql-ruby

Ruby implementation of GraphQL

Stack

Ruby React Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#graphql #graphql-ruby #hacktoberfest #rails #relay #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 71 open

5,444

stars

Forks: 1,419
Commits: 11,690 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rails-api/active_model_serializers

ActiveModel::Serializer implementation and Rails hooks

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#json #resource-serializer #ruby

Updated: 2025-12-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-07-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 190 open

5,342

stars

Forks: 1,368
Commits: 1,487 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

solidusio/solidus

🛒 Solidus, the open-source eCommerce framework for industry trailblazers.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#ecommerce #ecommerce-framework #ecommerce-platform #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2008-02-25
History: 9 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 71 open

5,335

stars

Forks: 1,402
Commits: 30,961 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

drapergem/draper

Decorators/View-Models for Rails Applications

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#decorators #ruby

Updated: 2026-05-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-06-30
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

5,277

stars

Forks: 522
Commits: 1,241 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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