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rom-rb/rom

Data mapping and persistence toolkit for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#data-access-layer #data-mapping #databases #ddd #nosql #persistence-toolkit

Updated: 2026-01-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-02-01
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

2,108

stars

Forks: 170
Commits: 5,234 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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markevans/dragonfly

A Ruby gem for on-the-fly processing - suitable for image uploading in Rails, Sinatra and much more!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-03-30
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 71 open

2,106

stars

Forks: 242
Commits: 2,351 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

feedjira/feedjira

A feed parsing library

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#feed-parsing #parser #rss #rss-parser

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-23
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 19 open

2,103

stars

Forks: 369
Commits: 790 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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nateware/redis-objects

Map Redis types directly to Ruby objects

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-01-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-11-10
History: 5 history points
License: Artistic-2.0
Issues: 17 open

2,095

stars

Forks: 231
Commits: 597 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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savonrb/savon

Heavy metal SOAP client

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#ruby #soap #soap-client

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-07-02
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

2,085

stars

Forks: 611
Commits: 1,708 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

brendon/acts_as_list

An ActiveRecord plugin for managing lists.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-09-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

2,084

stars

Forks: 357
Commits: 558 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cloudfoundry/bosh

Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler Go modules

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-19
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 30 open

2,076

stars

Forks: 661
Commits: 22,413 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

remi/her

Her is an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) that maps REST resources to Ruby objects. It is designed to build applications that are powered by a RESTful API instead of a database.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#json-data #orm #rails #ruby

Updated: 2024-05-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-07
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 115 open

2,075

stars

Forks: 324
Commits: 919 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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heartcombo/responders

A set of Rails responders to dry up your application

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#controllers #flash-messages #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-04-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-12-02
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

2,056

stars

Forks: 160
Commits: 462 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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test-prof/test-prof

Ruby Tests Profiling Toolbox

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #profiling #rails #rspec #ruby #testing

Updated: 2026-07-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-18
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

2,044

stars

Forks: 173
Commits: 819 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

rubycdp/ferrum

Headless Chrome Ruby API

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#automation #chrome #chromium #developer-tools #headless #headless-chrome

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-08-24
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

2,037

stars

Forks: 169
Commits: 731 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ruby-prof/ruby-prof

A ruby profiler. See https://ruby-prof.github.io for more information.

Stack

Ruby Bundler CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-11-12
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2 open

2,032

stars

Forks: 209
Commits: 1,454 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

deivid-rodriguez/pry-byebug

Step-by-step debugging and stack navigation in Pry

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#debugger #pry #pry-byebug #repl #ruby

Updated: 2026-05-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-06-07
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 48 open

2,030

stars

Forks: 144
Commits: 706 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ruboto/ruboto

A platform for developing apps using JRuby on Android.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-05-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-06-23
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 81 open

2,029

stars

Forks: 161
Commits: 2,337 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ambethia/recaptcha

ReCaptcha helpers for ruby apps

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#captcha #rails #recaptcha #ruby #sinatra

Updated: 2026-06-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-05-26
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 50 open

2,004

stars

Forks: 440
Commits: 786 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

basecamp/local_time

Rails engine for cache-friendly, client-side local time

Stack

JavaScript Express Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-17
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

2,003

stars

Forks: 125
Commits: 190 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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whomwah/rqrcode

A Ruby library that encodes QR Codes

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#qrcode #qrcode-generator #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-02-19
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,998

stars

Forks: 241
Commits: 376 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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bcrypt-ruby/bcrypt-ruby

bcrypt-ruby is a Ruby binding for the OpenBSD bcrypt() password hashing algorithm, allowing you to easily store a secure hash of your users' passwords.

Stack

C Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-02-27
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 19 open

1,996

stars

Forks: 289
Commits: 381 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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patterns-ai-core/langchainrb

Build LLM-powered applications in Ruby

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#agents #ai-agents #artificial-intelligence #machine-learning #ml #rubyml

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-04-18
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 78 open

1,990

stars

Forks: 264
Commits: 922 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

elastic/elasticsearch-ruby

Ruby integrations for Elasticsearch

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#client #elastic #elasticsearch #ruby #rubynlp #search

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-30
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 21 open

1,977

stars

Forks: 616
Commits: 3,510 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

cossacklabs/themis

Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.

Stack

C Android Express React React Native Bundler Cargo CMake

GitHub topics

#asymmetric-cryptography #authentication #cryptography #cryptography-library #encryption #golang

Updated: 2026-04-24
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-09-13
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 31 open

1,973

stars

Forks: 159
Commits: 1,832 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

postmodern/ruby-install

Installs Ruby, JRuby, TruffleRuby, or mruby

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#bash-script #bash-utility #installer #jruby #mruby #rubies

Updated: 2026-01-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-24
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 47 open

1,973

stars

Forks: 257
Commits: 1,340 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Shopify/identity_cache

IdentityCache is a blob level caching solution to plug into Active Record. Don't #find, #fetch!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #cache #webscale

Updated: 2026-04-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-28
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 42 open

1,968

stars

Forks: 174
Commits: 1,116 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

guard/listen

The Listen gem listens to file modifications and notifies you about the changes.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-01-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-11
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

1,963

stars

Forks: 251
Commits: 1,339 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

sidekiq-cron/sidekiq-cron

Scheduler / Cron for Sidekiq jobs

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#cron-jobs #ruby #ruby-gem #ruby-on-rails #scheduled-jobs #scheduler

Updated: 2026-05-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-25
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

1,945

stars

Forks: 302
Commits: 615 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ClosureTree/closure_tree

Easily and efficiently make your ActiveRecord models support hierarchies

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #ancestry #child #closure-tree #descendants #hierarchies

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-05-18
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 74 open

1,943

stars

Forks: 248
Commits: 1,024 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

rtomayko/tilt

Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-05-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-25
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

1,942

stars

Forks: 225
Commits: 848 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

jeremyevans/rodauth

Ruby's Most Advanced Authentication Framework

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,918

stars

Forks: 111
Commits: 1,450 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

gocardless/statesman

A statesmanlike state machine library.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-04
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

1,905

stars

Forks: 158
Commits: 939 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

hamstergem/hamster

Efficient, Immutable, Thread-Safe Collection classes for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2021-11-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-10-21
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 16 open

1,901

stars

Forks: 92
Commits: 1,865 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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