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pawurb/rails-pg-extras

Rails PostgreSQL database performance insights. Locks, index usage, buffer cache hit ratios, vacuum stats and more.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #postgresql #rails

Updated: 2026-06-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-12-25
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,248

stars

Forks: 39
Commits: 224 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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markets/invisible_captcha

🍯 Unobtrusive and flexible spam protection for Rails apps

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#anti-spam #captcha #honeypot #honeypot-field #rails #security

Updated: 2026-06-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-06-06
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

1,247

stars

Forks: 67
Commits: 250 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

TracksApp/tracks

Tracks is a GTD™ web application, built with Ruby on Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#getting-things-done #gtd #productivity #rails #ruby #todo

Updated: 2026-05-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2005-01-09
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 253 open

1,237

stars

Forks: 530
Commits: 5,326 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

excid3/gorails-app-template

Easily jumpstart a new Rails application with a bunch of great features by default

Archived

Stack

HTML

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #rails #ruby #rubyonrails #template

Updated: 2025-02-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-25
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,201

stars

Forks: 315
Commits: 244 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cgriego/active_attr

What ActiveModel left out

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activemodel #models #rails

Updated: 2026-03-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-29
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 51 open

1,197

stars

Forks: 91
Commits: 378 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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djezzzl/database_consistency

The tool to avoid various issues due to inconsistencies and inefficiencies between a database schema and application models.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#activerecord #consistency #database #optimization #performance #rails

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-20
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

1,192

stars

Forks: 62
Commits: 411 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ankane/ahoy_email

First-party email analytics for Rails

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#analytics #first-party-analytics #rails

Updated: 2026-04-01
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-04-28
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

1,187

stars

Forks: 142
Commits: 538 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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amatsuda/active_decorator

ORM agnostic truly Object-Oriented view helper for Rails 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#decorators #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-27
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

1,129

stars

Forks: 110
Commits: 556 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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huacnlee/rails-settings-cached

Global settings for your Rails application.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#config #configuration #rails #setting

Updated: 2024-12-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-02-25
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 7 open

1,122

stars

Forks: 204
Commits: 372 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

1,102

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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nikolalsvk/render_async

render_async lets you include pages asynchronously with AJAX

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#ajax #async #gem #hacktoberfest #rails #rails5

Updated: 2024-11-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-23
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

1,073

stars

Forks: 72
Commits: 366 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mattbrictson/rails-template

My former app template for Rails 7. All recommendations you see here have been moved to https://github.com/mattbrictson/nextgen

Archived

Stack

Ruby npm

GitHub topics

#boilerplate #heroku #rails #rails-generators #vite

Updated: 2023-12-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-10-13
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,071

stars

Forks: 219
Commits: 422 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

DefactoSoftware/Hours

Time registration that doesn't suck

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: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 72 open

1,035

stars

Forks: 258
Commits: 917 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: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

985

stars

Forks: 387
Commits: 2,424 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 2026-07-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-09-29
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 22 open

982

stars

Forks: 556
Commits: 2,365 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-12-07
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 15 open

934

stars

Forks: 257
Commits: 857 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

929

stars

Forks: 40
Commits: 322 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: 2026-07-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-09-22
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 243 open

922

stars

Forks: 502
Commits: 5,364 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

palkan/anyway_config

Configuration library for Ruby gems and applications

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#configuration #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-20
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

912

stars

Forks: 62
Commits: 433 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: 2026-07-17
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-12-30
History: 47 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1 open

900

stars

Forks: 42
Commits: 240 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +26 +12.1%

Website 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: 2026-06-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-03-22
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

887

stars

Forks: 137
Commits: 805 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-07-02
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-06-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 186 open

875

stars

Forks: 305
Commits: 2,577 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

comfy/active_link_to

Rails view helper to manage "active" state of a link

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#navigation #rails

Updated: 2024-04-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-03-18
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

854

stars

Forks: 83
Commits: 124 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-06-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-08-07
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

854

stars

Forks: 143
Commits: 3,511 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

motor-admin/motor-admin-rails

Low-code Admin panel and Business intelligence Rails engine. No DSL - configurable from the UI. Rails Admin, Active Admin, Blazer modern alternative.

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Vue Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#admin #admin-dashboard #business-intelligence #charts #crud #low-code

Updated: 2026-02-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-03-04
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 31 open

840

stars

Forks: 88
Commits: 566 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

claudiob/bh

Bootstrap Helpers for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#bh-gem #bootstrap #bootstrap-helpers #bootstrap3 #gem #middleman

Updated: 2026-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-24
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

832

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 343 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

spohlenz/tinymce-rails

Integration of TinyMCE with the Rails asset pipeline

Stack

JavaScript Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#rails #ruby #tinymce

Updated: 2026-07-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-02
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 73 open

824

stars

Forks: 264
Commits: 505 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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autolab/Autolab

Course management service that enables auto-graded programming assignments.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#autograding #autolab #cmu #education #feedback #programming

Updated: 2026-06-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-10-25
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 190 open

811

stars

Forks: 235
Commits: 2,179 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

joemasilotti/railsdevs.com

The reverse job board for Ruby on Rails developers.

Archived

Stack

Ruby Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2025-07-28
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2021-10-21
History: 23 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

806

stars

Forks: 277
Commits: 737 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

chaps-io/access-granted

Multi-role and whitelist based authorization gem for Rails (and not only Rails!)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#access-control #authorization #cancan #permissions #rails #ruby

Updated: 2024-05-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-10-11
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

779

stars

Forks: 40
Commits: 198 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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