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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: 2026-05-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-05-18
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 76 open

1,932

stars

Forks: 247
Commits: 1,016 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

1,872

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: 2026-07-04
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2005-01-20
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 84 open

1,855

stars

Forks: 3,636
Commits: 8,037 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: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

1,798

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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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: 2026-07-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-03-28
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 247 open

1,786

stars

Forks: 309
Commits: 3,473 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 17 open

1,776

stars

Forks: 276
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: 4 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: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-25
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

1,762

stars

Forks: 202
Commits: 743 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: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-12
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

1,754

stars

Forks: 238
Commits: 477 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: 2026-07-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-10-20
History: 4 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 137 open

1,660

stars

Forks: 91
Commits: 1,870 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 48 open

1,643

stars

Forks: 353
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: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

1,637

stars

Forks: 815
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: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

1,620

stars

Forks: 466
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: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 36 open

1,602

stars

Forks: 212
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: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 15 open

1,594

stars

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

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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: 2026-07-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-19
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 41 open

1,586

stars

Forks: 145
Commits: 749 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: 2026-06-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-11-09
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 158 open

1,570

stars

Forks: 381
Commits: 1,113 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: 2026-03-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-02-12
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

1,560

stars

Forks: 89
Commits: 575 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: 2026-07-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-05
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 42 open

1,551

stars

Forks: 108
Commits: 1,302 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2025-10-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-22
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

1,550

stars

Forks: 154
Commits: 385 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: 2026-06-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-03-31
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

1,546

stars

Forks: 127
Commits: 8,034 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

geminabox/geminabox

Really simple rubygem hosting

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#gem #hacktoberfest #ruby #rubygems

Updated: 2026-07-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-01-07
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

1,545

stars

Forks: 324
Commits: 619 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: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 81 open

1,532

stars

Forks: 309
Commits: 443 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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yippee-fun/phlex

Object-oriented views in Ruby.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-06-01
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

1,514

stars

Forks: 105
Commits: 1,165 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website 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: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

1,490

stars

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

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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: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 10 open

1,486

stars

Forks: 130
Commits: 71 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

1,484

stars

Forks: 101
Commits: 2,748 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

codetriage/CodeTriage

Discover the best way to get started contributing to Open Source projects

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler Composer npm

GitHub topics

#open-source #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-05-18
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 112 open

1,460

stars

Forks: 379
Commits: 3,199 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mongodb/mongo-ruby-driver

The Official MongoDB Ruby Driver

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#mongodb #mongodb-driver #nosql #ruby #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2026-07-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-11-22
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

1,431

stars

Forks: 531
Commits: 7,224 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ruby-amqp/bunny

Bunny is a popular, easy to use, mature Ruby client for RabbitMQ

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#amqp #amqp0-9-1 #messaging #rabbitmq #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-04-20
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 5 open

1,425

stars

Forks: 315
Commits: 2,599 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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