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AssetSync/asset_sync

Synchronises Assets between Rails and S3

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-07-30
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 62 open

1,893

stars

Forks: 332
Commits: 806 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lazaronixon/authentication-zero

An authentication system generator for Rails applications.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#api #auth #authentication #generator #rails #rails-authentication

Updated: 2024-12-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-02-14
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

1,873

stars

Forks: 67
Commits: 536 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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publify/publify

A self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails.

Stack

Less Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#blog-engine #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2005-01-20
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 84 open

1,856

stars

Forks: 3,631
Commits: 8,047 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

trailblazer/roar

Parse and render REST API documents using representers.

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

Updated: 2023-01-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-17
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

1,840

stars

Forks: 137
Commits: 854 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

DamirSvrtan/fasterer

:zap: Don't make your Rubies go fast. Make them go fasterer ™. :zap:

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-06-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-02-08
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

1,822

stars

Forks: 76
Commits: 251 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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decidim/decidim

The participatory democracy framework. A generator and multiple gems made with Ruby on Rails

AI dev

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#citizen-participation #civic-tech #civictech #collective-intelligence #community #decidim

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-08-17
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 346 open

1,805

stars

Forks: 475
Commits: 8,086 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hashrocket/decent_exposure

A helper for creating declarative interfaces in controllers

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-04-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-01-12
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

1,800

stars

Forks: 107
Commits: 418 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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geekq/workflow

Ruby finite-state-machine-inspired API for modeling workflow

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#aasm #dsl #ruby #state-machine

Updated: 2025-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-11-17
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

1,799

stars

Forks: 206
Commits: 427 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gettalong/kramdown

kramdown is a fast, pure Ruby Markdown superset converter, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.

Stack

Ruby

GitHub topics

#html #kramdown #markdown #pdf #ruby

Updated: 2026-01-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-12-09
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 18 open

1,780

stars

Forks: 279
Commits: 1,147 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

evanphx/benchmark-ips

Provides iteration per second benchmarking for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-24
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

1,774

stars

Forks: 104
Commits: 299 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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basecamp/marginalia

Attach comments to ActiveRecord's SQL queries

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-04-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-03-08
History: 43 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

1,769

stars

Forks: 148
Commits: 266 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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fphilipe/premailer-rails

CSS styled emails without the hassle.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#css #email #gem #inline-css #rails #ruby

Updated: 2024-06-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-04-03
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

1,765

stars

Forks: 257
Commits: 398 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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brainspec/enumerize

Enumerated attributes with I18n and ActiveRecord/Mongoid support

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #mongoid #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-25
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

1,762

stars

Forks: 203
Commits: 747 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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newrelic/centurion

A mass deployment tool for Docker fleets

Archived

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2025-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-04
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,756

stars

Forks: 112
Commits: 438 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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resque/resque-scheduler

A light-weight job scheduling system built on top of Resque

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#background-jobs #queue #scheduler

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-12-21
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 86 open

1,746

stars

Forks: 476
Commits: 1,154 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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heartcombo/has_scope

Map incoming controller parameters to named scopes in your resources

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-03-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-12-04
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

1,728

stars

Forks: 92
Commits: 248 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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iridakos/duckrails

Development tool to mock API endpoints quickly and easily - NOT MAINTAINED

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#api #api-server #apis #developer-tools #developers #docker

Updated: 2025-12-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-05
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 34 open

1,711

stars

Forks: 105
Commits: 291 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

preston/railroady

Ruby on Rails model and controller UML class diagram generator. (`brew/port/apt-get install graphviz` before use!)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2023-08-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-05-15
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 32 open

1,707

stars

Forks: 137
Commits: 298 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ErwinM/acts_as_tenant

Easy multi-tenancy for Rails in a shared database setup.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2025-04-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-08-08
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 45 open

1,700

stars

Forks: 267
Commits: 416 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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mperham/connection_pool

Generic connection pooling for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-05-14
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,694

stars

Forks: 144
Commits: 336 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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palkan/logidze

Database changes log for Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #hacktoberfest #postgresql #rails #versioning

Updated: 2026-07-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-13
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

1,685

stars

Forks: 84
Commits: 418 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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salsify/goldiloader

Just the right amount of Rails eager loading

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #eager-loading #gem #hacktoberfest #performance #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2026-03-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-16
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

1,672

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 205 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Multiwoven/multiwoven

🔥🔥🔥 Open source Reverse ETL - alternative to hightouch and census.

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Vite Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#bigquery #cdp #customer-data-platform #data-activation #data-engineering #data-pipeline

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-10-20
History: 6 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 168 open

1,670

stars

Forks: 95
Commits: 1,880 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

message-db/message-db

Microservice native message and event store for Postgres

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#event-driven #event-sourcing #event-store #event-stream #message-queue #postgres

Updated: 2024-04-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-06-08
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

1,652

stars

Forks: 64
Commits: 412 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

bootstrap-ruby/bootstrap_form

Official repository of the bootstrap_form gem, a Rails form builder that makes it super easy to create beautiful-looking forms using Bootstrap 5.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler Yarn

GitHub topics

#bootstrap #rails #rails-form-builder #ruby

Updated: 2026-05-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-06
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 50 open

1,643

stars

Forks: 351
Commits: 1,109 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mailboxer/mailboxer

A Rails gem to send messages inside a web application

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2024-04-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-03
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 148 open

1,636

stars

Forks: 454
Commits: 513 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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geokit/geokit

Official Geokit Gem. Geokit gem provides geocoding and distance/heading calculations. Pair with the geokit-rails plugin for full-fledged location-based app functionality.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-07-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-12-01
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

1,628

stars

Forks: 359
Commits: 719 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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pat/thinking-sphinx

Sphinx/Manticore plugin for ActiveRecord/Rails

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#rails #ruby #search #sphinx

Updated: 2026-01-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-13
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

1,620

stars

Forks: 464
Commits: 1,346 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

adzap/validates_timeliness

Date and time validation plugin for ActiveModel and Rails. Supports multiple ORMs and allows custom date/time formats.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activemodel #activerecord #rails #validation

Updated: 2025-12-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-01
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

1,618

stars

Forks: 233
Commits: 441 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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thredded/thredded

The best Rails forums engine ever.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#forums #message-board #rails #rails-engine #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-04-21
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 36 open

1,599

stars

Forks: 213
Commits: 1,814 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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