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public-activity/public_activity

Easy activity tracking for models - similar to Github's Public Activity

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #activity-stream #hackertoberfest #news-feed #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-02-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

2,990

stars

Forks: 329
Commits: 589 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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DatabaseCleaner/database_cleaner

Strategies for cleaning databases in Ruby. Can be used to ensure a clean state for testing.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#database-cleaner #ruby #testing #testing-tools

Updated: 2026-06-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-02-27
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 31 open

2,964

stars

Forks: 485
Commits: 1,221 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pdfkit/pdfkit

A Ruby gem to transform HTML + CSS into PDFs using the command-line utility wkhtmltopdf

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#html-to-pdf #middleware #pdfkit #ruby #wkhtmltopdf

Updated: 2023-08-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-05-21
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

2,940

stars

Forks: 418
Commits: 490 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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rubysherpas/paranoia

acts_as_paranoid for Rails 5, 6 and 7

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2025-11-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-07
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 103 open

2,917

stars

Forks: 521
Commits: 537 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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postmodern/chruby

Changes the current Ruby

Stack

Shell

Updated: 2025-10-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-08-01
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 99 open

2,912

stars

Forks: 183
Commits: 938 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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fetlife/rollout

Feature flippers.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#feature-flags #percentage #redis #rollout #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-07-17
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

2,905

stars

Forks: 214
Commits: 352 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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RubyMoney/money

A Ruby Library for dealing with money and currency conversion.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#exchange-rate #money #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-31
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-10-31
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

2,881

stars

Forks: 642
Commits: 1,908 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

roo-rb/roo

Roo provides an interface to spreadsheets of several sorts.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-30
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 125 open

2,875

stars

Forks: 501
Commits: 1,181 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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minimagick/minimagick

mini replacement for RMagick

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-03-06
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

2,864

stars

Forks: 348
Commits: 830 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

rails/spring

Rails application preloader

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-12-29
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 55 open

2,814

stars

Forks: 342
Commits: 984 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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kpumuk/meta-tags

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Ruby on Rails applications.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#meta-tags #opengraph #opengraph-tags #rails #ruby #search-engine-optimization

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-09-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

2,800

stars

Forks: 279
Commits: 815 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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rubysec/bundler-audit

Patch-level verification for Bundler

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#bundler-audit #dependency-checker #patch-management #ruby #ruby-advisory-db #security

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-10
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 48 open

2,758

stars

Forks: 250
Commits: 742 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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rails/bootsnap

Boot large Ruby/Rails apps faster

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#computers #gem #performance #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-01-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

2,740

stars

Forks: 209
Commits: 838 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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comfy/comfortable-mexican-sofa

ComfortableMexicanSofa is a powerful Ruby on Rails 5.2+ CMS (Content Management System) Engine

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#cms #rails #rails-engine #ruby

Updated: 2024-05-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-18
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 52 open

2,710

stars

Forks: 617
Commits: 2,603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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excid3/noticed

Notifications for Ruby on Rails applications

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#email #notifications #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-04-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-07-27
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

2,701

stars

Forks: 202
Commits: 658 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kanwei/algorithms

Ruby algorithms and data structures. C extensions

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-02-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-06-09
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

2,696

stars

Forks: 344
Commits: 246 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

danmayer/coverband

Ruby production code coverage collection and reporting (line of code usage)

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#coverage-data #coverage-report #coverband #rack-middleware #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-04
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

2,688

stars

Forks: 169
Commits: 1,815 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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influitive/apartment

Database multi-tenancy for Rack (and Rails) applications

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2024-06-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-11-29
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 136 open

2,684

stars

Forks: 457
Commits: 760 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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prontolabs/pronto

Quick automated code review of your changes

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#automated-analysis #automated-review #bitbucket #formatter #gitlab #linters

Updated: 2026-05-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-02
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

2,671

stars

Forks: 250
Commits: 806 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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brandonhilkert/sucker_punch

Sucker Punch is a Ruby asynchronous processing library using concurrent-ruby, heavily influenced by Sidekiq and girl_friday.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-12-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-01-19
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

2,631

stars

Forks: 109
Commits: 339 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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randym/axlsx

xlsx generation with charts, images, automated column width, customizable styles and full schema validation. Axlsx excels at helping you generate beautiful Office Open XML Spreadsheet documents without having to understand the entire ECMA specification. Check out the README for some examples of how easy it is. Best of all, you can validate your xlsx file before serialization so you know for sure that anything generated is going to load on your client's machine.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-02-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-20
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 218 open

2,627

stars

Forks: 685
Commits: 1,301 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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pickhardt/betty

Friendly English-like interface for your command line. Don't remember a command? Ask Betty.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2021-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-04
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 49 open

2,602

stars

Forks: 210
Commits: 313 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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rbspy/rbspy

Sampling CPU profiler for Ruby

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cpu #profilers #ruby #rust

Updated: 2026-08-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-21
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

2,570

stars

Forks: 105
Commits: 1,040 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

piotrmurach/tty

Toolkit for developing sleek command line apps.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#cli #cli-app #ruby-cli #ruby-gem #terminal #tty-components

Updated: 2022-12-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-09-30
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

2,530

stars

Forks: 82
Commits: 1,236 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

lisamelton/video_transcoding

Tools to transcode, inspect and convert videos.

Stack

Ruby

Updated: 2025-01-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-05-06
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

2,518

stars

Forks: 165
Commits: 358 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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wardencommunity/warden

General Rack Authentication Framework

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-04-06
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

2,514

stars

Forks: 205
Commits: 399 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Apipie/apipie-rails

Ruby on Rails API documentation tool

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-30
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 234 open

2,507

stars

Forks: 454
Commits: 1,028 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kjvarga/sitemap_generator

SitemapGenerator is a framework-agnostic XML Sitemap generator written in Ruby with automatic Rails integration. It supports Video, News, Image, Mobile, PageMap and Alternate Links sitemap extensions and includes Rake tasks for managing your sitemaps, as well as many other great features.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#sitemaps

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-07-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

2,495

stars

Forks: 277
Commits: 867 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

trailblazer/reform

Form objects decoupled from models.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-30
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 41 open

2,491

stars

Forks: 180
Commits: 1,407 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ice-cube-ruby/ice_cube

Ruby Date Recurrence Library - Allows easy creation of recurrence rules and fast querying

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#ruby

Updated: 2026-01-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-03-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 58 open

2,466

stars

Forks: 354
Commits: 978 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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