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elastic/elasticsearch-ruby

Ruby integrations for Elasticsearch

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#client #elastic #elasticsearch #ruby #rubynlp #search

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-30
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 29 open

1,976

stars

Forks: 616
Commits: 3,512 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

postmodern/ruby-install

Installs Ruby, JRuby, TruffleRuby, or mruby

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#bash-script #bash-utility #installer #jruby #mruby #rubies

Updated: 2026-01-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 48 open

1,975

stars

Forks: 258
Commits: 1,340 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ClosureTree/closure_tree

Easily and efficiently make your ActiveRecord models support hierarchies

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #ancestry #child #closure-tree #descendants #hierarchies

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-05-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 74 open

1,945

stars

Forks: 247
Commits: 1,024 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sidekiq-cron/sidekiq-cron

Scheduler / Cron for Sidekiq jobs

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#cron-jobs #ruby #ruby-gem #ruby-on-rails #scheduled-jobs #scheduler

Updated: 2026-05-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-25
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

1,945

stars

Forks: 303
Commits: 615 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lazaronixon/authentication-zero

An authentication system generator for Rails applications.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#api #auth #authentication #generator #rails #rails-authentication

Updated: 2024-12-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-02-14
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

1,874

stars

Forks: 66
Commits: 536 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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publify/publify

A self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails.

Stack

Less Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#blog-engine #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2005-01-20
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 84 open

1,853

stars

Forks: 3,624
Commits: 8,075 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

avo-hq/avo

The Essential Toolkit for building Internal Tools and admin panels with Ruby on Rails

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#admin #admin-dashboard #admin-panel #cms-framework #content-management-system #crm

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-03-28
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 156 open

1,806

stars

Forks: 317
Commits: 3,724 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

geekq/workflow

Ruby finite-state-machine-inspired API for modeling workflow

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#aasm #dsl #ruby #state-machine

Updated: 2025-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-11-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

1,802

stars

Forks: 205
Commits: 427 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gettalong/kramdown

kramdown is a fast, pure Ruby Markdown superset converter, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.

Stack

Ruby

GitHub topics

#html #kramdown #markdown #pdf #ruby

Updated: 2026-01-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-12-09
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 19 open

1,782

stars

Forks: 278
Commits: 1,147 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fphilipe/premailer-rails

CSS styled emails without the hassle.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#css #email #gem #inline-css #rails #ruby

Updated: 2024-06-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-04-03
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

1,766

stars

Forks: 257
Commits: 398 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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brainspec/enumerize

Enumerated attributes with I18n and ActiveRecord/Mongoid support

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #mongoid #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-25
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

1,762

stars

Forks: 202
Commits: 747 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sidekiq-scheduler/sidekiq-scheduler

Lightweight job scheduler extension for Sidekiq

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#cron #ruby #scheduler #sidekiq

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

1,754

stars

Forks: 241
Commits: 491 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Multiwoven/multiwoven

🔥🔥🔥 Open source Reverse ETL - alternative to hightouch and census.

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Vite Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#bigquery #cdp #customer-data-platform #data-activation #data-engineering #data-pipeline

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2023-10-20
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 199 open

1,680

stars

Forks: 96
Commits: 1,888 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

bootstrap-ruby/bootstrap_form

Official repository of the bootstrap_form gem, a Rails form builder that makes it super easy to create beautiful-looking forms using Bootstrap 5.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler Yarn

GitHub topics

#bootstrap #rails #rails-form-builder #ruby

Updated: 2026-05-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 51 open

1,639

stars

Forks: 350
Commits: 1,109 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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catarse/catarse

The first open source crowdfunding platform for creative projects in the world

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#crowdfunding #donations #payment-engines #payment-gateway #rails #ruby

Updated: 2023-03-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-11-11
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

1,639

stars

Forks: 812
Commits: 16,820 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pat/thinking-sphinx

Sphinx/Manticore plugin for ActiveRecord/Rails

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#rails #ruby #search #sphinx

Updated: 2026-01-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-13
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

1,620

stars

Forks: 464
Commits: 1,346 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

thredded/thredded

The best Rails forums engine ever.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#forums #message-board #rails #rails-engine #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-04-21
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 36 open

1,597

stars

Forks: 214
Commits: 1,814 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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plentz/lol_dba

lol_dba is a small package of rake tasks that scan your application models and displays a list of columns that probably should be indexed. Also, it can generate .sql migration scripts.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#database #database-migrations #gem #migrations #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-03-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-09-10
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 15 open

1,595

stars

Forks: 70
Commits: 422 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ElMassimo/vite_ruby

⚡️ Vite.js in Ruby, bringing joy to your JavaScript experience

Stack

Ruby Express React Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#frontend-tooling #hanami #integration #plugin #rack #rails

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 33 open

1,590

stars

Forks: 153
Commits: 770 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Casecommons/pg_search

pg_search builds ActiveRecord named scopes that take advantage of PostgreSQL’s full text search

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #metaphone #multi-search #pg-search #postgresql #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-11-09
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 157 open

1,586

stars

Forks: 380
Commits: 1,139 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

palkan/action_policy

Authorization framework for Ruby/Rails applications

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Astro Express React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#authorization #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-02-12
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

1,563

stars

Forks: 89
Commits: 583 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

RailsEventStore/rails_event_store

A Ruby implementation of an Event Store based on Active Record

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#aggregate-root #cqrs #cqrs-es #ddd #domain-driven-design #event-driven

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-03-31
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

1,555

stars

Forks: 130
Commits: 8,236 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

benbalter/word-to-markdown

A ruby gem to liberate content from Microsoft Word documents

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#converter #libreoffice #markdown #microsoft-word #ruby #word

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

1,552

stars

Forks: 157
Commits: 403 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

toy/image_optim

Optimize images using multiple utilities

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#image-optimisation #image-optimization #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 39 open

1,550

stars

Forks: 106
Commits: 1,333 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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geminabox/geminabox

Really simple rubygem hosting

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#gem #hacktoberfest #ruby #rubygems

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-01-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

1,548

stars

Forks: 323
Commits: 659 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

yippee-fun/phlex

Object-oriented views in Ruby.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#component-architecture #component-library #phlex #ruby #server-side-rendering #ssr

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-06-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

1,529

stars

Forks: 107
Commits: 1,308 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

charlotte-ruby/impressionist

Rails Plugin that tracks impressions and page views

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#counts-impressions #impression #impressions-table #logging-impressions #ruby #unique-impressions

Updated: 2026-02-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 81 open

1,527

stars

Forks: 306
Commits: 443 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

igrigorik/decisiontree

ID3-based implementation of the ML Decision Tree algorithm

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#decision-tree #machine-learning #ruby #rubyml

Updated: 2018-10-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-02-23
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 10 open

1,497

stars

Forks: 132
Commits: 71 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

reenhanced/gitreflow

Reflow automatically creates pull requests, ensures the code review is approved, and squash merges finished branches to master with a great commit message template.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#git #git-workflow #hacktoberfest #ruby #workflow

Updated: 2022-03-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

1,487

stars

Forks: 58
Commits: 219 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

prettier/plugin-ruby

Prettier Ruby Plugin

Stack

JavaScript Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#prettier #prettier-plugin #ruby

Updated: 2025-03-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-05-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

1,482

stars

Forks: 105
Commits: 2,748 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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