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jeremyevans/sequel

Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-02-27
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

5,092

stars

Forks: 1,075
Commits: 8,681 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on

A tagging plugin for Rails applications that allows for custom tagging along dynamic contexts.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-11-27
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 70 open

4,991

stars

Forks: 1,195
Commits: 1,156 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ddnexus/pagy

Agnostic pagination in plain ruby

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bun Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#bootstrap #bulma #elasticsearch-rails #hanami #jsonapi #meilisearch

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-12-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

4,986

stars

Forks: 445
Commits: 2,473 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

opal/opal

Ruby ♥︎ JavaScript

AI dev

Stack

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
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 149 open

4,927

stars

Forks: 335
Commits: 8,891 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

simplecov-ruby/simplecov

Code coverage for Ruby with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bun Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#code-quality #coverage #coverage-library #coverage-report #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-13
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

4,919

stars

Forks: 578
Commits: 2,075 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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backup/backup

Easy full stack backup operations on UNIX-like systems.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#backup #database #encryption #mongodb #mysql #postgresql

Updated: 2024-07-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-17
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

4,859

stars

Forks: 666
Commits: 1,309 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

collectiveidea/delayed_job

Database based asynchronous priority queue system -- Extracted from Shopify

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-02-17
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 143 open

4,825

stars

Forks: 944
Commits: 1,115 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

prawnpdf/prawn

Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#pdf #pdf-generator #prawn #ruby

Updated: 2026-04-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-04-04
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 92 open

4,821

stars

Forks: 696
Commits: 3,114 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lobsters/lobsters

Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#aggregator #forum #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-06-17
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 260 open

4,815

stars

Forks: 979
Commits: 4,709 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ankane/blazer

Business intelligence made simple

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#business-intelligence #charts #sql

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-01
History: 46 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

4,798

stars

Forks: 500
Commits: 1,662 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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activemerchant/active_merchant

Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-11-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-02-20
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

4,601

stars

Forks: 2,485
Commits: 6,498 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sferik/twitter-ruby

A Ruby interface to the Twitter API.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-12-15
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

4,576

stars

Forks: 1,275
Commits: 2,897 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

TheOdinProject/theodinproject

Main website for The Odin Project

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Bundler Yarn

GitHub topics

#curriculum #odin #ruby #ruby-on-rails #theodinproject

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-05-15
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 61 open

4,576

stars

Forks: 2,137
Commits: 6,581 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ctran/annotate_models

Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #rails #ruby

Updated: 2024-08-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-02-27
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 144 open

4,487

stars

Forks: 681
Commits: 1,027 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ankane/ahoy

Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#analytics #events #first-party-analytics #rails #visits

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-26
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

4,483

stars

Forks: 386
Commits: 1,026 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

octobox/octobox

📮 Untangle your GitHub Notifications

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#github #github-notifications #inbox #notifications #octobox #rails

Updated: 2026-08-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-12-16
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 57 open

4,478

stars

Forks: 348
Commits: 5,690 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ankane/strong_migrations

Catch unsafe migrations in development

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-11-23
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

4,436

stars

Forks: 199
Commits: 1,142 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rails/jbuilder

Jbuilder: generate JSON objects with a Builder-style DSL

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-27
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 46 open

4,421

stars

Forks: 454
Commits: 877 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

blackcandy-org/blackcandy

A self hosted music streaming server

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#audio #hotwire #music #music-player #music-streaming #musicplayer

Updated: 2026-08-13
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-02-07
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 37 open

4,399

stars

Forks: 221
Commits: 1,048 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

mina-deploy/mina

Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#deployment #mina #rails #ruby #ssh

Updated: 2024-08-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-06-01
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 35 open

4,356

stars

Forks: 479
Commits: 951 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

binarylogic/authlogic

A simple ruby authentication solution.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-02-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-10-24
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

4,346

stars

Forks: 633
Commits: 1,177 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

crmne/ruby_llm

One delightful Ruby framework for every major AI provider. Build AI agents, chatbots, RAG apps, and multimodal workflows in beautiful, expressive code.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#agents #ai #anthropic #chatgpt #claude #deepseek

Updated: 2026-08-13
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2025-01-30
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

4,299

stars

Forks: 481
Commits: 1,292 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fog/fog

The Ruby cloud services library.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-11-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-05-18
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

4,298

stars

Forks: 1,450
Commits: 12,440 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

eventmachine/eventmachine

EventMachine: fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-02-28
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 199 open

4,278

stars

Forks: 633
Commits: 1,387 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

errbit/errbit

The open source error catcher that's Airbrake API compliant :ukraine:

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#airbrake #crash-reporting #error-monitoring #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-03
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 127 open

4,271

stars

Forks: 989
Commits: 4,238 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

grosser/parallel

Ruby: parallel processing made simple and fast

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-05-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-05-17
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 37 open

4,265

stars

Forks: 266
Commits: 832 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

flyerhzm/rails_best_practices

a code metric tool for rails projects

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-04-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-03
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 61 open

4,163

stars

Forks: 271
Commits: 1,376 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zdennis/activerecord-import

A library for bulk insertion of data into your database using ActiveRecord.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-02-26
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 45 open

4,154

stars

Forks: 621
Commits: 1,298 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

stringer-rss/stringer

A self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Vite Bundler pnpm

GitHub topics

#feed-reader #feedjira #rss #rss-reader #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-04-06
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 25 open

4,131

stars

Forks: 391
Commits: 1,919 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

voormedia/rails-erd

Generate Entity-Relationship Diagrams for Rails applications

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-09-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

4,104

stars

Forks: 379
Commits: 652 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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