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minitest/minitest

minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, and benchmarking.

Stack

Ruby

GitHub topics

#minitest #ruby #seattlerb #test #testing

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-10-09
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 11 open

3,415

stars

Forks: 584
Commits: 1,095 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

weechat/weechat

The extensible chat client.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #chat #client #extensible #irc #javascript

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-09-27
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 439 open

3,391

stars

Forks: 364
Commits: 14,098 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

deivid-rodriguez/byebug

Debugging in Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#byebug #debugger #repl #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-03-14
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 101 open

3,350

stars

Forks: 329
Commits: 3,091 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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krisleech/wisper

A micro library providing Ruby objects with Publish-Subscribe capabilities

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#events #publish-subscribe #pubsub #ruby

Updated: 2024-08-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-03-29
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 2 open

3,331

stars

Forks: 154
Commits: 315 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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shrinerb/shrine

File Attachment toolkit for Ruby applications

Stack

Ruby React Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#attachment #background-jobs #direct-upload #file-upload #filesystem #metadata

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-03
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

3,285

stars

Forks: 277
Commits: 2,429 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

truffleruby/truffleruby

A high performance implementation of the Ruby programming language, built on GraalVM.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler PEP 517

GitHub topics

#graalvm #hacktoberfest #ruby #truffle

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-09-10
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 183 open

3,227

stars

Forks: 213
Commits: 70,210 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

alexrudall/ruby-openai

OpenAI API + Ruby! 🤖❤️ GPT-5 & Realtime WebRTC compatible!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#ai #api-client #chatgpt #dall-e #gpt-4 #gpt-4o

Updated: 2026-05-01
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2020-08-03
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 55 open

3,222

stars

Forks: 383
Commits: 1,327 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pglombardo/PasswordPusher

🔐 Securely share sensitive information with automatic expiration & deletion after a set number of views or duration. Track who, what and when with full audit logs.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler Yarn

GitHub topics

#communicate-passwords #docker-container #encryption #file-sharing #hacktoberfest #information-technology

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-12-28
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 103 open

3,205

stars

Forks: 459
Commits: 4,914 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

peek/peek

Take a peek into your Rails applications.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#elasticsearch #peek #redis #ruby

Updated: 2024-04-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-03-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

3,176

stars

Forks: 144
Commits: 320 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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layervault/psd.rb

Parse Photoshop files in Ruby with ease

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#document #file-format #parser #photoshop #psd #renderer

Updated: 2021-01-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-05-08
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 25 open

3,115

stars

Forks: 196
Commits: 657 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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httprb/http

HTTP (The Gem! a.k.a. http.rb) - a fast Ruby HTTP client with a chainable API, streaming support, and timeouts

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#client #http #http-client #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 31 open

3,082

stars

Forks: 328
Commits: 1,521 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hashie/hashie

Hashie is a collection of classes and mixins that make Ruby hashes more powerful.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #hash-extensions #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-09-03
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 43 open

3,037

stars

Forks: 313
Commits: 889 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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BayesWitnesses/m2cgen

Transform ML models into a native code (Java, C, Python, Go, JavaScript, Visual Basic, C#, R, PowerShell, PHP, Dart, Haskell, Ruby, F#, Rust) with zero dependencies

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#c #csharp #dartlang #go #haskell #java

Updated: 2024-08-03
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-13
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 62 open

3,001

stars

Forks: 264
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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bensheldon/good_job

Multithreaded, Postgres-based, Active Job backend for Ruby on Rails.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activejob #activejob-backend #hacktoberfest #multithreaded #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-02-24
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 141 open

2,996

stars

Forks: 256
Commits: 1,477 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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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theforeman/foreman

an application that automates the lifecycle of servers

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#cloud #config-management #foreman #hacktoberfest #hybrid-cloud #infrastructure

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-07-13
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

2,916

stars

Forks: 1,044
Commits: 11,415 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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

openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website

The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#openstreetmap #rails-application #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-07-28
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 665 open

2,837

stars

Forks: 1,091
Commits: 19,172 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

danbooru/danbooru

A taggable image board written in Rails.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#anime #booru #danbooru #imageboard #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-02-04
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 466 open

2,816

stars

Forks: 449
Commits: 14,876 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

GitHub

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

GitHub

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

GitHub

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

GitHub

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

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

GitHub

scambra/devise_invitable

An invitation strategy for devise

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#devise #invitation #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-12-08
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 73 open

2,674

stars

Forks: 543
Commits: 1,115 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

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

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