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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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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

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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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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

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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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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

7,262

stars

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

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

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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

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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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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rubocop/rails-style-guide

A community-driven Ruby on Rails style guide

GitHub topics

#rails #rubocop #ruby #styleguide

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-09-25
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 43 open

6,506

stars

Forks: 1,049
Commits: 495 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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

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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 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
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

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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

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: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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