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busyloop/lolcat

Rainbows and unicorns!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#cli #essentials

Updated: 2024-03-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-10
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 33 open

6,562

stars

Forks: 232
Commits: 77 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ankane/chartkick

Create beautiful JavaScript charts with one line of Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#chartjs #charts #google-charts #highcharts #visualization

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-05-07
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

6,528

stars

Forks: 563
Commits: 584 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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alexreisner/geocoder

Complete Ruby geocoding solution.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#geocoding #geocoding-api #geocoding-objects #geocoding-requests

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-04-15
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 54 open

6,446

stars

Forks: 1,200
Commits: 2,492 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

guard/guard

Guard is a command line tool to easily handle events on file system modifications.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-03
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 67 open

6,441

stars

Forks: 493
Commits: 2,454 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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norman/friendly_id

FriendlyId is the “Swiss Army bulldozer” of slugging and permalink plugins for ActiveRecord. It allows you to create pretty URL’s and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids for ActiveRecord models.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#friendly-url #plugin #rails #ruby #slug

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-01-08
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

6,226

stars

Forks: 591
Commits: 1,631 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ddollar/foreman

Manage Procfile-based applications

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-07-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-05-17
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 72 open

6,156

stars

Forks: 628
Commits: 1,143 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

redmine/redmine

Mirror of redmine code source - Official Subversion repository is at https://svn.redmine.org/redmine - contact: @vividtone or maeda (at) farend (dot) jp

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

Updated: 2026-08-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-06-28
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

6,015

stars

Forks: 2,455
Commits: 19,622 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lostisland/faraday

Simple, but flexible HTTP client library, with support for multiple backends.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler npm

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-12-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 63 open

5,950

stars

Forks: 1,027
Commits: 2,022 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jnunemaker/httparty

:tada: Makes http fun again!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#http #httparty #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-07-27
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 47 open

5,896

stars

Forks: 972
Commits: 1,351 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 156 open

5,863

stars

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

Website GitHub

zammad/zammad

Zammad is a web based open source helpdesk/customer support system.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Vite Vue Bundler npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#coffeescript #customer-care #customer-support #graphql #helpdesk #javascript

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-04-10
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 446 open

5,834

stars

Forks: 1,028
Commits: 19,740 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ruby-concurrency/concurrent-ruby

Modern concurrency tools including agents, futures, promises, thread pools, supervisors, and more. Inspired by Erlang, Clojure, Scala, Go, Java, JavaScript, and classic concurrency patterns.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#concurrency #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-23
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 52 open

5,832

stars

Forks: 415
Commits: 3,199 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rack/rack-attack

Rack middleware for blocking & throttling

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#rack #rack-attack #rack-middleware #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-24
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

5,762

stars

Forks: 345
Commits: 884 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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fastruby/fast-ruby

:dash: Writing Fast Ruby :heart_eyes: -- Collect Common Ruby idioms.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#benchmark-ips #hacktoberfest #performance-optimization #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-10-13
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 46 open

5,737

stars

Forks: 372
Commits: 257 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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CanCanCommunity/cancancan

The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.

Stack

Ruby Vite Vue Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#authorization #cancancan #rails

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 93 open

5,688

stars

Forks: 633
Commits: 1,352 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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danger/danger

🚫 Stop saying "you forgot to …" in code review (in Ruby)

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#automation #bitbucket #ci #circle #code-review #danger

Updated: 2026-07-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-29
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 163 open

5,688

stars

Forks: 488
Commits: 3,158 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mislav/will_paginate

Pagination library for Rails and other Ruby applications

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#pagination #pagination-library #plugin #rails #ruby #sequel

Updated: 2025-11-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-02-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 46 open

5,685

stars

Forks: 857
Commits: 788 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sferik/x-cli

A command-line power tool for Twitter.

Stack

Ruby Bundler Cargo

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-23
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 59 open

5,582

stars

Forks: 403
Commits: 1,151 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper

Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#authentication #authorization #doorkeeper #grape #identity #oauth

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-15
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

5,519

stars

Forks: 1,078
Commits: 2,808 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rmosolgo/graphql-ruby

Ruby implementation of GraphQL

Stack

Ruby React Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#graphql #graphql-ruby #hacktoberfest #rails #relay #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-05
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 64 open

5,444

stars

Forks: 1,419
Commits: 11,570 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rails-api/active_model_serializers

ActiveModel::Serializer implementation and Rails hooks

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#json #resource-serializer #ruby

Updated: 2025-12-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-07-05
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 190 open

5,343

stars

Forks: 1,373
Commits: 1,487 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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solidusio/solidus

🛒 Solidus, the open-source eCommerce framework for industry trailblazers.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#ecommerce #ecommerce-framework #ecommerce-platform #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2008-02-25
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 109 open

5,318

stars

Forks: 1,399
Commits: 30,697 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

drapergem/draper

Decorators/View-Models for Rails Applications

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#decorators #ruby

Updated: 2026-05-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-06-30
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

5,276

stars

Forks: 524
Commits: 1,241 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rails/webpacker

Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#frontend #hacktoberfest #javascript #rails #webpack #yarn

Updated: 2024-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-07
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

5,273

stars

Forks: 1,447
Commits: 1,585 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rspec/rspec-rails

RSpec for Rails 7+

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-12-23
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 64 open

5,272

stars

Forks: 1,047
Commits: 3,884 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aasm/aasm

AASM - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, ActiveRecord, Mongoid, NoBrainer, Dynamoid)

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#aasm #activerecord #hacktoberfest #mongoid #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-01-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 165 open

5,231

stars

Forks: 644
Commits: 1,536 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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formtastic/formtastic

A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-02-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-04-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

5,216

stars

Forks: 625
Commits: 2,716 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rest-client/rest-client

Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework syntax for specifying actions.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-05-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-03-08
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 140 open

5,213

stars

Forks: 930
Commits: 985 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

shakacode/react_on_rails

Integration of React + Webpack + Rails including server-side rendering of React, enabling a better developer experience and faster client performance.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Fastify React Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Bundler npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#heroku-deployment #javascript-api #npm-module #rails-development #rails-views #react

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-20
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 133 open

5,191

stars

Forks: 629
Commits: 4,232 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

athityakumar/colorls

A Ruby gem that beautifies the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons. :tada:

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#cli #color #eye-candy #gem #icons #ls

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-06-29
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 87 open

5,134

stars

Forks: 397
Commits: 830 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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