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ledermann/docker-rails

Dockerize Rails 7 with ActionCable, Webpacker, Stimulus, Elasticsearch, Sidekiq

Archived

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#actioncable #deployment #docker #file-upload #opensearch #rails

Updated: 2024-10-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-27
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

1,099

stars

Forks: 170
Commits: 6,612 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rgeo/rgeo

Geospatial data library for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#geolocation #proj4-library #rgeo #ruby

Updated: 2026-04-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-19
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 51 open

1,062

stars

Forks: 160
Commits: 720 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

DefactoSoftware/Hours

Time registration that doesn't suck

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#rails #ruby #time-tracker

Updated: 2023-01-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 71 open

1,033

stars

Forks: 257
Commits: 917 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

natalie-lang/natalie

a work-in-progress Ruby compiler, written in Ruby and C++

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#compiler #cpp #language #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

1,030

stars

Forks: 71
Commits: 12,492 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

getsentry/sentry-ruby

Sentry SDK for Ruby

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Svelte Vite Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#crash-reporting #crash-reports #error-handler #error-monitoring #hacktoberfest #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 90 open

989

stars

Forks: 545
Commits: 3,196 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

airbrake/airbrake

The official Airbrake library for Ruby applications

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#airbrake #apm #capistrano #crash-reporting #delayed-job #error-monitoring

Updated: 2024-12-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-12-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

985

stars

Forks: 388
Commits: 2,424 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

RubyCrypto/rbnacl

Ruby FFI binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library (a.k.a. libsodium)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#chacha20 #cryptography #ed25519 #libsodium #nacl #ruby

Updated: 2025-10-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

985

stars

Forks: 95
Commits: 660 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rails-sqlserver/activerecord-sqlserver-adapter

SQL Server Adapter For Rails

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #database #freetds #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-09-29
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 25 open

980

stars

Forks: 556
Commits: 2,382 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

boazsegev/iodine

iodine - HTTP / WebSockets Server for Ruby with Pub/Sub support

Stack

C Bundler

GitHub topics

#clustering #high-performance #http #message-bus #multithreading #pubsub

Updated: 2026-08-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

972

stars

Forks: 55
Commits: 2,083 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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cucumber/aruba

Test command-line applications with Cucumber-Ruby, RSpec or Minitest.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#bdd #cucumber #ruby #shell #tdd #tidelift

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-02-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

966

stars

Forks: 162
Commits: 3,185 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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janko/image_processing

Web-friendly image processing macros for libvips and ImageMagick

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#image-processing #imagemagick #minimagick #ruby #thumbnails #vips

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-10-03
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

961

stars

Forks: 91
Commits: 438 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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marckohlbrugge/sessy

Open-source email observability for AWS SES

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#amazon-ses #email #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-12-30
History: 137 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3 open

941

stars

Forks: 45
Commits: 393 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +6 +1.6%

Website GitHub

rgeo/activerecord-postgis-adapter

ActiveRecord connection adapter for PostGIS, based on postgresql and rgeo

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #postgis #postgresql #rails #rgeo #ruby

Updated: 2026-04-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-12-07
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 16 open

936

stars

Forks: 257
Commits: 857 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

ohler55/agoo

A High Performance HTTP Server for Ruby

Stack

C Bundler

GitHub topics

#benchmark #clustering #clusters #fast #graphql #graphql-server

Updated: 2026-05-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

934

stars

Forks: 40
Commits: 322 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ruby/rdoc

RDoc produces HTML and online documentation for Ruby projects.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#documentation-tool #hacktoberfest #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-02-28
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 168 open

927

stars

Forks: 468
Commits: 4,181 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

janlelis/irbtools

Improvements for Ruby's IRB console 💎︎

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#developer-tools #irb #ruby #ruby-console #terminal

Updated: 2025-12-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

925

stars

Forks: 25
Commits: 390 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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openSUSE/osem

Open Source Event Manager. An event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#conference #conferences #events #hacktoberfest #osem #rails

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-09-22
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 246 open

925

stars

Forks: 503
Commits: 5,392 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

SciRuby/iruby

Official gem repository: Ruby kernel for Jupyter/IPython Notebook

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#interactive #jupyter #repl #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 49 open

924

stars

Forks: 35
Commits: 776 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

palkan/anyway_config

Configuration library for Ruby gems and applications

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#configuration #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-20
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

915

stars

Forks: 62
Commits: 437 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

libvips/ruby-vips

Ruby extension for the libvips image processing library.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#image-processing #libvips #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

903

stars

Forks: 64
Commits: 744 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

balvig/spyke

Interact with REST services in an ActiveRecord-like manner

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #api #faraday #json #rest #rest-api

Updated: 2025-11-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-13
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

902

stars

Forks: 65
Commits: 334 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

codeplant/simple-navigation

A ruby gem for creating navigations (with multiple levels) for your Rails, Sinatra or Padrino applications. Render your navigation as html list, link list or breadcrumbs.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#menu #navigation #padrino #rails #ruby #sinatra

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-03-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

886

stars

Forks: 137
Commits: 807 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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adomokos/light-service

Series of Actions with an emphasis on simplicity.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#aop #ruby #workflow

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-10-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

882

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 763 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rubocop/rubocop-rails

A RuboCop extension focused on enforcing Rails best practices and coding conventions.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#code-formatter #hacktoberfest #linter #rails #rubocop #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-06-10
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 193 open

877

stars

Forks: 316
Commits: 2,603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ged/ruby-pg

A PostgreSQL client library for Ruby

Stack

C Bundler .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c #client #database #postgresql #rdbms #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-01-07
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 16 open

869

stars

Forks: 200
Commits: 2,428 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rubocop/rubocop-rspec

Code style checking for RSpec files.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#lint #rspec #rubocop #ruby #static-analysis #testing

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-26
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 94 open

859

stars

Forks: 299
Commits: 3,097 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rossta/montrose

Recurring events library for Ruby. Enumerable recurrence objects and convenient chainable interface.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#recurrence #recurring-events #ruby

Updated: 2025-01-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-31
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

852

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 553 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

wearefine/fae

CMS for Rails. For Reals.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#cms #content-management-system #hacktoberfest #rails #rails-engine #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-08-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

852

stars

Forks: 142
Commits: 3,513 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

AndyObtiva/glimmer

DSL Framework consisting of a DSL Engine and a Data-Binding Library used in Glimmer DSL for SWT (JRuby Desktop Development GUI Framework), Glimmer DSL for Opal (Pure Ruby Web GUI), Glimmer DSL for LibUI (Prerequisite-Free Ruby Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for Tk (Ruby Tk Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for GTK (Ruby-GNOME Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for XML (& HTML), and Glimmer DSL for CSS

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#desktop #desktop-application-sdk #dsl #dsl-engine #framework #glimmer

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-12-20
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

841

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 21,536 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

mrkamel/search_cop

Search engine like fulltext query support for ActiveRecord

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #fulltext-indices #fulltext-support #mysql #postgres #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

838

stars

Forks: 36
Commits: 229 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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