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openfarmcc/OpenFarm

A free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge. You can grow anything!

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#farming #gardening #open-source #plants #rails

Updated: 2025-04-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-27
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 134 open

1,730

stars

Forks: 279
Commits: 2,945 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

heartcombo/has_scope

Map incoming controller parameters to named scopes in your resources

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-03-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-12-04
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

1,728

stars

Forks: 92
Commits: 248 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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iridakos/duckrails

Development tool to mock API endpoints quickly and easily - NOT MAINTAINED

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#api #api-server #apis #developer-tools #developers #docker

Updated: 2025-12-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-05
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 34 open

1,711

stars

Forks: 105
Commits: 291 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

preston/railroady

Ruby on Rails model and controller UML class diagram generator. (`brew/port/apt-get install graphviz` before use!)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-08-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-05-15
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 32 open

1,707

stars

Forks: 137
Commits: 298 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ErwinM/acts_as_tenant

Easy multi-tenancy for Rails in a shared database setup.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2025-04-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-08-08
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 45 open

1,700

stars

Forks: 267
Commits: 416 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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railsware/js-routes

Brings Rails named routes to javascript

Stack

Ruby Bundler Yarn

Updated: 2026-06-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-03
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

1,698

stars

Forks: 158
Commits: 1,034 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mperham/connection_pool

Generic connection pooling for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-05-14
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,694

stars

Forks: 144
Commits: 336 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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palkan/logidze

Database changes log for Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #hacktoberfest #postgresql #rails #versioning

Updated: 2026-07-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-13
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

1,685

stars

Forks: 84
Commits: 418 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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salsify/goldiloader

Just the right amount of Rails eager loading

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #eager-loading #gem #hacktoberfest #performance #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2026-03-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-16
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

1,672

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 205 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-08-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-10-20
History: 6 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 168 open

1,670

stars

Forks: 95
Commits: 1,880 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mdp/rotp

Ruby One Time Password library

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-11-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-12
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

1,657

stars

Forks: 481
Commits: 292 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: 5 history points
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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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: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

1,638

stars

Forks: 813
Commits: 16,820 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mailboxer/mailboxer

A Rails gem to send messages inside a web application

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2024-04-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-03
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 148 open

1,636

stars

Forks: 454
Commits: 513 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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geokit/geokit

Official Geokit Gem. Geokit gem provides geocoding and distance/heading calculations. Pair with the geokit-rails plugin for full-fledged location-based app functionality.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-07-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-12-01
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

1,628

stars

Forks: 359
Commits: 719 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 5 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

adzap/validates_timeliness

Date and time validation plugin for ActiveModel and Rails. Supports multiple ORMs and allows custom date/time formats.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activemodel #activerecord #rails #validation

Updated: 2025-12-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-01
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

1,618

stars

Forks: 233
Commits: 441 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ankane/lockbox

Modern encryption for Ruby and Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #activestorage #carrierwave #encryption #libsodium #mongoid

Updated: 2026-04-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-02
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

1,604

stars

Forks: 78
Commits: 918 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 36 open

1,599

stars

Forks: 213
Commits: 1,814 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

jfelchner/ruby-progressbar

Ruby/ProgressBar is a text progress bar library for Ruby.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#cli #progress #progress-bar #progressbar #progressbars #terminal

Updated: 2026-01-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-02-16
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

1,595

stars

Forks: 130
Commits: 837 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: 6 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: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 49 open

1,590

stars

Forks: 150
Commits: 749 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

geokit/geokit-rails

Official Geokit plugin for Rails/ActiveRecord. Provides location-based goodness for your Rails app. Requires the Geokit gem.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2024-02-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-12-19
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 39 open

1,586

stars

Forks: 244
Commits: 363 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-08-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-11-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 155 open

1,575

stars

Forks: 381
Commits: 1,123 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ffaker/ffaker

Faker refactored.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-04-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-01-15
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

1,574

stars

Forks: 557
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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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: 2026-07-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-02-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

1,560

stars

Forks: 89
Commits: 579 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: 2026-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-05
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 39 open

1,552

stars

Forks: 106
Commits: 1,318 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-07-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-22
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

1,550

stars

Forks: 154
Commits: 386 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: 2026-08-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-01-07
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,548

stars

Forks: 324
Commits: 632 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: 2026-08-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-03-31
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

1,548

stars

Forks: 129
Commits: 8,159 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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