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teamcapybara/capybara

Acceptance test framework for web applications

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-04
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

10,170

stars

Forks: 1,472
Commits: 4,422 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Freika/dawarich

Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#google-maps #gpslogger #hacktoberfest #homelab #maps #memory

Updated: 2026-08-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-04-06
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 171 open

10,164

stars

Forks: 360
Commits: 4,424 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

we-promise/sure

The personal finance app for everyone (by everyone)

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Android Flutter Ruby on Rails Tauri Bundler Cargo CocoaPods

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-02-02
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 490 open

9,712

stars

Forks: 443
Commits: 3,364 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

activeadmin/activeadmin

The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Vite Vue Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#activeadmin #admin-ui #arbre #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-04-15
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 31 open

9,703

stars

Forks: 3,323
Commits: 8,976 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

antiwork/gumroad

See what sticks

AI dev

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Vite Bundler npm

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-04-03
History: 64 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

9,548

stars

Forks: 2,010
Commits: 3,759 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

resque/resque

Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later.

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#asynchronous-tasks #asynctask #background-jobs #background-service #background-worker #job-management

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-08-12
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 90 open

9,481

stars

Forks: 1,659
Commits: 1,832 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ankane/pghero

A performance dashboard for Postgres

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-07-21
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

8,907

stars

Forks: 477
Commits: 1,621 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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javan/whenever

Cron jobs in Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-02-16
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 84 open

8,862

stars

Forks: 715
Commits: 596 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave

Classier solution for file uploads for Rails, Sinatra and other Ruby web frameworks

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-08-28
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 69 open

8,781

stars

Forks: 1,650
Commits: 2,740 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kaminari/kaminari

⚡ A Scope & Engine based, clean, powerful, customizable and sophisticated paginator for Ruby webapps

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#kaminari #pagination #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-02-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-02-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 74 open

8,673

stars

Forks: 1,074
Commits: 1,714 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

varvet/pundit

Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#ruby

Updated: 2026-08-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-11-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

8,522

stars

Forks: 642
Commits: 760 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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heartcombo/simple_form

Forms made easy for Rails! It's tied to a simple DSL, with no opinion on markup.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#dsl #form-builder #rails #rails-helper #ruby

Updated: 2026-04-01
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-18
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 37 open

8,227

stars

Forks: 1,295
Commits: 2,118 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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chef/chef

Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#automation #cfgmgt #chef #deployment #devops #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-03-06
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 380 open

8,225

stars

Forks: 2,521
Commits: 34,360 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

basecamp/fizzy

Kanban as it should be. Not as it has been.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#hotwire #kanban #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2024-06-21
History: 106 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 70 open

8,199

stars

Forks: 1,191
Commits: 10,193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +10 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +14 +0.1%

Website GitHub

thoughtbot/factory_bot

A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#factories #factory-bot #factory-girl #fixtures #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-05-28
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 81 open

8,169

stars

Forks: 2,554
Commits: 1,317 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

omniauth/omniauth

OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#authentication #hacktoberfest #omniauth #ruby

Updated: 2026-02-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-03-25
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 105 open

8,101

stars

Forks: 977
Commits: 1,481 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

railsadminteam/rails_admin

RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Vite Bundler npm

Updated: 2026-08-08
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-01
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 202 open

7,957

stars

Forks: 2,233
Commits: 5,103 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

puppetlabs/puppet

Server automation framework and application

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-04-13
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 98 open

7,921

stars

Forks: 2,210
Commits: 35,429 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

puma/puma

A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#multithreading #rack #ruby #server

Updated: 2026-07-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-01-28
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 100 open

7,915

stars

Forks: 1,489
Commits: 4,387 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

github/scientist

:microscope: A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#refactoring #ruby #rubygem #scientist

Updated: 2025-11-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-17
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

7,752

stars

Forks: 503
Commits: 254 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

github-changelog-generator/github-changelog-generator

Automatically generate change log from your tags, issues, labels and pull requests on GitHub.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#changelog #changelog-generator #generator #github-api #github-extension #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-03-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-31
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 129 open

7,536

stars

Forks: 844
Commits: 1,837 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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flyerhzm/bullet

help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-08-13
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

7,335

stars

Forks: 456
Commits: 1,527 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

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
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 112 open

7,262

stars

Forks: 776
Commits: 4,229 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

paper-trail-gem/paper_trail

Track changes to your rails models

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #audit #log #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-05-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-05-27
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

7,029

stars

Forks: 909
Commits: 2,425 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

BetterErrors/better_errors

Better error page for Rack apps

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-07-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-12-08
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 68 open

6,863

stars

Forks: 432
Commits: 737 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

pry/pry

A runtime developer console and IRB alternative with powerful introspection capabilities.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#console #debugger #introspection #irb #pry #reflection

Updated: 2026-03-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-12-07
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 125 open

6,836

stars

Forks: 608
Commits: 4,557 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

instructure/canvas-lms

The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#canvas-lms #gerrit-mirror #instructure

Updated: 2026-04-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-02-01
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 467 open

6,780

stars

Forks: 3,019
Commits: 78,765 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sj26/mailcatcher

Catches mail and serves it through a dream.

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#development #devtools #mail #rails #ruby #rubygems

Updated: 2024-05-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-25
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 46 open

6,774

stars

Forks: 606
Commits: 586 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bkeepers/dotenv

A Ruby gem to load environment variables from `.env`.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#dotenv #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

6,765

stars

Forks: 513
Commits: 815 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ankane/searchkick

Intelligent search made easy

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#elasticsearch #opensearch #rails

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-07-15
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

6,721

stars

Forks: 762
Commits: 3,218 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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