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excid3/prefixed_ids

Friendly Prefixed IDs for your Ruby on Rails models

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #rails #ruby #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2026-06-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

405

stars

Forks: 31
Commits: 144 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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piotrmurach/loaf

Manages and displays breadcrumb trails in Rails app - lean & mean.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#breadcrumb-trail #breadcrumbs #rails #ruby-gem #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2022-03-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

405

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 463 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hooopo/second_level_cache

Write Through and Read Through caching library inspired by CacheMoney and cache_fu, support ActiveRecord 4, 5 and 6.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #activerecord5 #cache #cache-money #rails #rails5

Updated: 2022-02-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

392

stars

Forks: 88
Commits: 350 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ackama/rails-template

Application template for Rails projects; preloaded with best practices for TDD, security, deployment, and developer productivity.

Stack

Ruby Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#ackama #rails #rails-template #ruby #template #tooling

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-10-13
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 36 open

385

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 997 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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NoBrainerORM/nobrainer

Ruby ORM for RethinkDB

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#orm #rails #rethinkdb

Updated: 2025-04-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-22
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 18 open

385

stars

Forks: 49
Commits: 745 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sudara/alonetone

A free, open source, non-commercial home for musicians and their music

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#mp3 #music #non-commercial #platform #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-03-11
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 111 open

381

stars

Forks: 94
Commits: 7,930 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dao42/rails-template

A best & newest & fastest rails 6.x template for senior rails developer.

Stack

Ruby npm

GitHub topics

#rails #template

Updated: 2025-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-27
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

378

stars

Forks: 87
Commits: 152 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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scaffeinate/socify

:rocket: Socify is an open source social networking platform written in Ruby on Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#heroku #rails #ruby #social-network #socify

Updated: 2019-01-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-01
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 18 open

375

stars

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

Website GitHub

bibendi/activerecord-postgres_enum

Integrate PostgreSQL's enum data type into ActiveRecord's schema and migrations.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #enum #postgres #postgresql #rails #ruby

Updated: 2024-06-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

365

stars

Forks: 27
Commits: 95 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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meilisearch/meilisearch-rails

Meilisearch integration for Ruby on Rails

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#meilisearch #rails #ruby #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 52 open

358

stars

Forks: 61
Commits: 931 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

davidesantangelo/api.rss

RSS as RESTful. This service allows you to transform RSS feed into an awesome API.

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#api #bigdata #dandelion-api #elasticsearch #feed #machine-learning

Updated: 2021-05-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

346

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 305 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jekuno/milia

Easy multi-tenanting for Rails5 (or Rails4) + Devise

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#devise #gem #milia #multi-tenanting #rails #ruby

Updated: 2017-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

339

stars

Forks: 66
Commits: 526 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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makandra/consul

Scope-based authorization for Ruby on Rails.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#authorization #rails

Updated: 2026-03-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

335

stars

Forks: 37
Commits: 233 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

eval/envied

Ensures presence and type of your app's ENV-variables (mirror)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#environment-variables #heroku #rails #ruby

Updated: 2025-02-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

330

stars

Forks: 41
Commits: 324 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

codemancers/rapidfire

Making dynamic surveys should be easy!

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#rails #ruby #ruby-on-rails #survey-app #survey-form #survey-solutions

Updated: 2024-12-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

328

stars

Forks: 140
Commits: 375 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ryanckulp/speedrail

Rails 8 app template: Devise auth, Stripe billing, Tailwind CSS, admin panel, SEO helpers, etc

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#mvp-template #rails #rails-template #rails8 #ruby-on-rails-template

Updated: 2025-05-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-01-31
History: 42 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

291

stars

Forks: 38
Commits: 433 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Retrospring/retrospring

Q/A based social network

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #justask #questions-and-answers #rails #retrospring #ruby

Updated: 2025-08-31
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-08-01
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 51 open

285

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 6,508 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fatkodima/sidekiq-iteration

Make your long-running sidekiq jobs interruptible and resumable.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #gem #rails #ruby #sidekiq

Updated: 2026-02-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-11-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

281

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 60 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fatkodima/fast_count

Quickly get a count estimation for large tables (>99% of accuracy for PostgreSQL).

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#gem #mysql #performance #postgresql #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-03-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-04-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

278

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 26 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Gokul595/api_guard

JWT authentication solution for Rails APIs

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#api #api-auth #api-authentication #api-guard #authentication #jwt

Updated: 2023-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-03-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

278

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 192 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

didww/credit_card_validations

:credit_card: ruby gem for validating credit cards, generating credit card numbers, Luhn checks

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#credit-card #e-commerce #rails #validation

Updated: 2026-06-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-03-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

270

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 330 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bigbinary/wheel

Don't reinvent the wheel for every new Rails project. Use sane Defaults.

Archived

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Vite Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#boilerplate #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-05-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

266

stars

Forks: 196
Commits: 1,269 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bugsnag/bugsnag-ruby

BugSnag error monitoring & reporting software for rails, sinatra, rack and ruby

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#bug-tracking-tool #bugs #bugsnag #crash #debug #debugging-tool

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

254

stars

Forks: 177
Commits: 2,294 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hot-glue-for-rails/hot-glue

Rapid scaffold builder for Turbo-Rails and Hotwire. Get the tutorial now at:

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#rails #rails6 #rails7 #turbo #turbo-rails

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-23
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

239

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 794 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

AlexB52/retest

A trusty CLI companion to monitor file changes and automatically run the corresponding Ruby specs. Ready to assist on any Ruby project, no setup needed!

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#bundler #cli #file-changes #hanami #rails #refactoring

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-08-29
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

220

stars

Forks: 7
Commits: 279 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

customink/secondbase

Seamless second database integration for Rails.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #database-management #database-tasks #migrations #rails #secondbase-database

Updated: 2026-01-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-12-03
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

218

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 225 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

jetthoughts/vuejs-rails-starterkit

Vue.js + Rails Starting Kit GitHub Template to develop Hybrid Mobile Application: https://vuejs-rails-starterkit.herokuapp.com

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Vue Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#boilerplate-template #hackathon #heroku #nodejs #rails #rails-boilerplate

Updated: 2023-01-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-04-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

212

stars

Forks: 32
Commits: 7 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

drecom/activerecord-turntable

ActiveRecord Sharding Plugin

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #rails #ruby #sharding

Updated: 2023-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

206

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 716 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

samvera/hyrax

Hyrax is a Ruby on Rails Engine built by the Samvera community. Hyrax provides a foundation for creating many different digital repository applications.

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#blacklight #fcrepo #hydra-community #hyrax #rails #repository

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-17
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 559 open

202

stars

Forks: 140
Commits: 17,180 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

expertiza/expertiza

Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#bower #docker #education #expertiza #expertiza-wiki #nsf

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-05-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 266 open

194

stars

Forks: 1,331
Commits: 12,988 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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