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Awesome Ruby

💎 A collection of awesome Ruby libraries, tools, frameworks and software

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rails/rails

Ruby on Rails

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Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#activejob #activerecord #framework #html #mvc #rails

Updated: 2026-08-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2004-11-24
License: MIT
Issues: 1,589 open

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Forks: 22,367
Commits: 99,397 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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gollum/gollum

A simple, Git-powered wiki with a local frontend and support for many kinds of markup and content.

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#documentation #documentation-tool #gollum #jruby-support #markdown #ruby

Updated: 2025-11-24
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-03-29
License: MIT
Issues: 91 open

14,313

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Forks: 1,558
Commits: 2,576 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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diaspora/diaspora

A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#decentralized #distributed #federated #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2010-06-11
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 425 open

13,648

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Forks: 2,861
Commits: 21,104 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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presidentbeef/brakeman

A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#brakeman #rails #ruby #security #security-audit #security-tools

Updated: 2026-08-13
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-27
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 112 open

7,262

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Forks: 776
Commits: 4,229 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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activerecord-hackery/ransack

Object-based searching.

Stack

Ruby React Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#activerecord #rails #ruby #ruby-gem #ruby-library #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2026-05-31
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-03-31
License: MIT
Issues: 156 open

5,863

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Forks: 822
Commits: 1,919 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OctoLinker/OctoLinker

OctoLinker — Links together, what belongs together

Stack

HTML Actix Web ASP.NET Core Express Cargo .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#browser-extension #github #github-extension #octolinker #productivity

Updated: 2023-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-27
License: MIT
Issues: 62 open

5,384

stars

Forks: 284
Commits: 1,995 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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opal/opal

Ruby ♥︎ JavaScript

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Ruby Sinatra Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#browser #compiler #javascript #js #nodejs #opal

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-09-09
License: MIT
Issues: 149 open

4,927

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Forks: 335
Commits: 8,891 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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cyu/rack-cors

Rack Middleware for handling Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), which makes cross-origin AJAX possible.

Stack

JavaScript Express Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

Updated: 2025-05-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-06-02
License: MIT
Issues: 33 open

3,290

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Forks: 258
Commits: 305 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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stimulusreflex/stimulus_reflex

Build reactive applications with the Rails tooling you already know and love.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Vite Vue Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#actioncable #cableready #hacktoberfest #hotwire #rails #reactive

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-14
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

2,333

stars

Forks: 172
Commits: 1,702 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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basecamp/local_time

Rails engine for cache-friendly, client-side local time

Stack

JavaScript Express Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-17
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

2,003

stars

Forks: 125
Commits: 190 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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cossacklabs/themis

Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.

Stack

C Android Express React React Native Bundler Cargo CMake

GitHub topics

#asymmetric-cryptography #authentication #cryptography #cryptography-library #encryption #golang

Updated: 2026-04-24
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-09-13
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 31 open

1,973

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Forks: 159
Commits: 1,832 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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decidim/decidim

The participatory democracy framework. A generator and multiple gems made with Ruby on Rails

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Ruby React Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#citizen-participation #civic-tech #civictech #collective-intelligence #community #decidim

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-08-17
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 346 open

1,805

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Forks: 475
Commits: 8,086 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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
License: MIT
Issues: 50 open

1,643

stars

Forks: 351
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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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
License: MIT
Issues: 49 open

1,590

stars

Forks: 150
Commits: 749 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

1,482

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Forks: 102
Commits: 2,748 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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
License: MIT
Issues: 31 open

839

stars

Forks: 88
Commits: 566 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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stimulusreflex/cable_ready

Use simple commands on the server to control client browsers in real-time

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Vite Vue Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#action-cable #hacktoberfest #javascript #real-time #ruby #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2025-06-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-19
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

771

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 628 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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excid3/madmin

A robust Admin Interface for Ruby on Rails apps

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Bundler Yarn

GitHub topics

#admin #admin-dashboard #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-09-11
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

760

stars

Forks: 101
Commits: 521 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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shakacode/shakapacker

Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails

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Ruby Express React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-12-07
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

490

stars

Forks: 108
Commits: 2,352 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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hitobito/hitobito

A web application to manage complex group hierarchies with members, events and a lot more.

AI dev

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Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#club-management #community #complex-group-hierarchies #event-management #hacktoberfest #hitobito

Updated: 2026-08-20
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-24
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 386 open

476

stars

Forks: 134
Commits: 11,913 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 51 open

285

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 6,508 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

265

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

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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
License: MIT
Issues: 23 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

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jjb/ruby-clock

A ruby job scheduler which runs jobs each in their own thread in a persistent process.

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#cron #scheduler

Updated: 2025-12-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-12-29
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 2
Commits: 161 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Gargron/mastodon

A GNU Social-compatible microblogging server

Stack

Ruby Express React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

Updated: 2018-11-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-20
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 2,119 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Default branch: master
Last pushed: 2026-08-13
GitHub updated: 2026-08-23
Created: 2014-07-03
First commit: 2014-07-03
Last scanned: 2026-08-24 10:49
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Repo stars: 1,720,096
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