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aasm/aasm

AASM - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, ActiveRecord, Mongoid, NoBrainer, Dynamoid)

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#aasm #activerecord #hacktoberfest #mongoid #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-01-07
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 170 open

5,230

stars

Forks: 647
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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Exafunction/windsurf.vim

Free, ultrafast Copilot alternative for Vim and Neovim

Stack

Vim Script

GitHub topics

#autocomplete #codeium #copilot #editor #extension #go

Updated: 2026-03-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-01-03
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 135 open

5,145

stars

Forks: 194
Commits: 205 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

athityakumar/colorls

A Ruby gem that beautifies the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons. :tada:

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#cli #color #eye-candy #gem #icons #ls

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-06-29
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 87 open

5,138

stars

Forks: 395
Commits: 830 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ddnexus/pagy

Agnostic pagination in plain ruby

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bun Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#bootstrap #bulma #elasticsearch-rails #hanami #jsonapi #meilisearch

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-12-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

4,993

stars

Forks: 444
Commits: 2,483 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

simplecov-ruby/simplecov

Code coverage for Ruby with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bun Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#code-quality #coverage #coverage-library #coverage-report #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-13
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

4,927

stars

Forks: 579
Commits: 2,334 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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opal/opal

Ruby ♥︎ JavaScript

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#browser #compiler #javascript #js #nodejs #opal

Updated: 2026-09-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-09-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 152 open

4,926

stars

Forks: 336
Commits: 8,897 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

backup/backup

Easy full stack backup operations on UNIX-like systems.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#backup #database #encryption #mongodb #mysql #postgresql

Updated: 2024-07-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

4,856

stars

Forks: 663
Commits: 1,309 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lobsters/lobsters

Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#aggregator #forum #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-06-17
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 232 open

4,845

stars

Forks: 997
Commits: 4,777 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

prawnpdf/prawn

Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#pdf #pdf-generator #prawn #ruby

Updated: 2026-04-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-04-04
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 94 open

4,821

stars

Forks: 698
Commits: 3,114 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kaitai-io/kaitai_struct

Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby / Rust

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp #csharp #declarative-language #file-format #go

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-20
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 531 open

4,697

stars

Forks: 210
Commits: 1,049 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

TheOdinProject/theodinproject

Main website for The Odin Project

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Bundler Yarn

GitHub topics

#curriculum #odin #ruby #ruby-on-rails #theodinproject

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-05-15
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 44 open

4,647

stars

Forks: 2,146
Commits: 6,629 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

octobox/octobox

📮 Untangle your GitHub Notifications

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#github #github-notifications #inbox #notifications #octobox #rails

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-12-16
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 65 open

4,484

stars

Forks: 348
Commits: 5,760 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ctran/annotate_models

Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #rails #ruby

Updated: 2024-08-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-02-27
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 145 open

4,483

stars

Forks: 680
Commits: 1,027 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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crmne/ruby_llm

The Ruby-native AI framework. Chats, agents, tools, images, audio, and video through one consistent API, in plain Ruby or Rails.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#agent-framework #agentic-ai #agents #ai #ai-agents #ai-framework

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2025-01-30
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

4,423

stars

Forks: 509
Commits: 1,590 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

blackcandy-org/blackcandy

A self hosted music streaming server

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#audio #hotwire #music #music-player #music-streaming #musicplayer

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-02-07
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

4,421

stars

Forks: 225
Commits: 1,054 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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google/open-location-code

Open Location Code is a library to generate short codes, called "plus codes", that can be used as digital addresses where street addresses don't exist.

Stack

Java Android Bundler Cargo Dart Pub

GitHub topics

#c #cplusplus #dart #geo #golang #gps

Updated: 2026-03-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-10-27
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 62 open

4,364

stars

Forks: 532
Commits: 793 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mina-deploy/mina

Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#deployment #mina #rails #ruby #ssh

Updated: 2024-08-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-06-01
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 35 open

4,353

stars

Forks: 478
Commits: 951 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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

lando/lando

A development tool for all your projects that is fast, easy, powerful and liberating

GitHub topics

#development #docker #dotnet #drupal #environment #lando

Updated: 2026-08-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-01-10
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 178 open

4,245

stars

Forks: 517
Commits: 5,915 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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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

refinery/refinerycms

An extendable Ruby on Rails CMS that supports Rails 6.1 to 8.1+ and Ruby 3.x to 4.x

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#demo #hacktoberfest #inquiry #news #rails #refinery

Updated: 2026-05-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-05-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 35 open

3,905

stars

Forks: 1,223
Commits: 10,194 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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

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

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

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

collectiveidea/audited

Audited (formerly acts_as_audited) is an ORM extension that logs all changes to your Rails models.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #audit #audit-log #audit-trail #auditing #rails

Updated: 2025-11-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-07-20
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 208 open

3,498

stars

Forks: 658
Commits: 994 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rouge-ruby/rouge

A pure Ruby code highlighter that is compatible with Pygments

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#minitest #rubocop #ruby #syntax-highlighting

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-08-31
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 222 open

3,452

stars

Forks: 817
Commits: 2,866 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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