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fnando/browser

Do some browser detection with Ruby. Includes ActionController integration.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#browser-detection #rails #ruby #user-agent

Updated: 2025-06-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-07-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

2,497

stars

Forks: 364
Commits: 597 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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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ruby/rake

A make-like build utility for Ruby.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #rake #rakefile #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-02-28
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 70 open

2,462

stars

Forks: 650
Commits: 3,214 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jmettraux/rufus-scheduler

scheduler for Ruby (at, in, cron and every jobs)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#cron #ruby #scheduler #time

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-05-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

2,446

stars

Forks: 200
Commits: 1,259 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rubygems/rubygems.org

The Ruby community's gem hosting service.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#package-manager #ruby #rubygems

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-05-08
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 93 open

2,442

stars

Forks: 1,025
Commits: 12,684 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pedrozath/coltrane

🎹🎸A music theory library with a command-line interface

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#gem #music #ruby

Updated: 2025-01-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

2,402

stars

Forks: 69
Commits: 187 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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countries/countries

All sorts of useful information about every country packaged as convenient little country objects. It includes data from ISO 3166 (countries and states/subdivisions ), ISO 4217 (currency), and E.164 (phone numbers).

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#countries #iso3166 #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-12-18
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

2,364

stars

Forks: 679
Commits: 1,851 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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stimulusreflex/stimulus_reflex

Build reactive applications with the Rails tooling you already know and love.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Vite Vue Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#actioncable #cableready #hacktoberfest #hotwire #rails #reactive

Updated: 2026-09-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-14
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

2,335

stars

Forks: 172
Commits: 1,702 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jamesrwhite/minicron

🕰️ Monitor your cron jobs

Archived

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#automation #cron #devops #infrastructure #monitoring #ops

Updated: 2021-05-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-03
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 45 open

2,317

stars

Forks: 150
Commits: 1,250 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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libgit2/rugged

ruby bindings to libgit2

Stack

C Bundler

GitHub topics

#git #libgit2 #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-05-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 121 open

2,311

stars

Forks: 293
Commits: 2,734 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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macournoyer/thin

A very fast & simple Ruby web server

Archived

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#rack #rails #ruby #server #thin #web-server

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-11-12
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 21 open

2,275

stars

Forks: 344
Commits: 964 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

karafka/karafka

Ruby and Rails efficient Kafka processing framework

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#active-job #activejob-backend #apache-kafka #background-jobs #events #kafka

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-30
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 83 open

2,252

stars

Forks: 187
Commits: 2,897 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mbj/mutant

Mutation testing for Ruby. AI writes your code. AI writes your tests. But who tests the tests?

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler Cargo

GitHub topics

#code-quality-analyzer #code-review #coverage #dynamic-analysis #minitest #mutant

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-23
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 127 open

2,204

stars

Forks: 161
Commits: 4,305 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Komodo/KomodoEdit

Komodo Edit is a fast and free multi-language code editor. Written in JS, Python, C++ and based on the Mozilla platform.

Stack

Python .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#activestate #cross-platform #debugger #debugger-visualizer #editor #go

Updated: 2023-11-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-09-24
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,189 open

2,202

stars

Forks: 301
Commits: 14,756 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

rpush/rpush

The push notification service for Ruby.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#apns #apns2 #fcm #firebase-cloud-messaging #hacktoberfest #notification-service

Updated: 2025-07-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-08-23
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 39 open

2,201

stars

Forks: 382
Commits: 1,780 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rubyconfig/config

Easiest way to add multi-environment yaml settings to Rails, Sinatra, Padrino and other Ruby projects.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#config #configuration #configuration-management #environment-variables #environments #padrino

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-19
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 25 open

2,169

stars

Forks: 231
Commits: 591 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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glebm/i18n-tasks

Manage translation and localization with static analysis, for Ruby i18n

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#i18n #ruby #static-analysis #static-code-analysis #translation-management

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-23
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 66 open

2,159

stars

Forks: 283
Commits: 1,334 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

AaronLasseigne/active_interaction

:briefcase: Manage application specific business logic.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activemodel #command-pattern #method-object #ruby #service-object

Updated: 2025-11-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-06-26
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

2,148

stars

Forks: 146
Commits: 1,794 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ruby-shoryuken/shoryuken

A super efficient Amazon SQS thread based message processor for Ruby.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activejob #aws-sdk-ruby #aws-sqs #concurrent-ruby #message-processor #rails

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-02
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 19 open

2,125

stars

Forks: 286
Commits: 1,461 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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magnusvk/counter_culture

Turbo-charged counter caches for your Rails app.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #counter-cache #database #gem #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-05-24
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

2,118

stars

Forks: 224
Commits: 790 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hanakai-rb/rom

Data mapping and persistence toolkit for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#data-access-layer #data-mapping #databases #ddd #nosql #persistence-toolkit

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2012-02-01
History: 13 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

2,108

stars

Forks: 170
Commits: 5,245 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +1 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +2 0.0%

Website GitHub

rom-rb/rom

Data mapping and persistence toolkit for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#data-access-layer #data-mapping #databases #ddd #nosql #persistence-toolkit

Updated: 2026-01-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-02-01
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

2,108

stars

Forks: 170
Commits: 5,234 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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

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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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

GitHub

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

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

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

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

GitHub

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%

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