Awesome

GitHub projects from awesome lists

Search awesome repositories

Search names, descriptions, topics, tags, and stacks, then tune results by ecosystem, freshness, health, and cross-list signal.

Continue with GitHub Browse awesome lists Request a list

Repos indexed: 18,423
Awesome lists tracked: 132
Current results: 415

Find repositories

Start broad, then narrow by ecosystem, freshness, health, and growth.

Clear 1 refinement

Search repositories

Search mode

Keyword Semantic

Tune results

The controls most people need first.

Awesome list

Language

Freshness

Sort

Direction

More filters Topics, generated tags, stack, files, age, archive status, and growth.

Ecosystem

GitHub topic

Generated tag

Framework or stack

Package manager

Files

Has file

Choose a suggestion or use commas to require multiple files.

Health

Minimum stars

Repository age

Uses known first-commit dates.

Archive status

AI development signals

Momentum

Unmaintained for

Commit velocity

Star growth

Reset filters

415 repos shown

Topic: ruby

Browse

Highlighted

Open highlighted repo slot

Put your repository first

Promote a GitHub repo at the top of Awesome repository list views for 7 days.

aasm/aasm

AASM - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, ActiveRecord, Mongoid, NoBrainer, Dynamoid)

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#aasm #activerecord #hacktoberfest #mongoid #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-01-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 165 open

5,231

stars

Forks: 644
Commits: 1,536 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Exafunction/windsurf.vim

Free, ultrafast Copilot alternative for Vim and Neovim

Stack

Vim Script

GitHub topics

#autocomplete #codeium #copilot #editor #extension #go

Updated: 2026-03-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-01-03
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 135 open

5,145

stars

Forks: 194
Commits: 205 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

athityakumar/colorls

A Ruby gem that beautifies the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons. :tada:

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#cli #color #eye-candy #gem #icons #ls

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-06-29
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 87 open

5,134

stars

Forks: 397
Commits: 830 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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

GitHub

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

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

kaitai-io/kaitai_struct

Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby / Rust

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp #csharp #declarative-language #file-format #go

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-20
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 528 open

4,664

stars

Forks: 209
Commits: 1,049 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

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

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

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

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

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

flippercloud/flipper

🐬 Beautiful, performant feature flags for Ruby.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#api #dalli #feature #feature-flag #feature-flagging #feature-flags

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 31 open

3,963

stars

Forks: 440
Commits: 3,390 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mongodb/mongoid

The Official Ruby Object Mapper for MongoDB

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#mongodb #mongodb-driver #orm #orm-framework #ruby #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-08-26
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

3,916

stars

Forks: 1,383
Commits: 8,329 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jruby/jruby

JRuby, an implementation of Ruby on the JVM

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler Cargo Maven

GitHub topics

#concurrency #invokedynamic #jruby #jvm #performance #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-09-10
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 959 open

3,913

stars

Forks: 946
Commits: 57,078 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

refinery/refinerycms

An extendable Ruby on Rails CMS that supports Rails 6.1 to 8.1+ and Ruby 3.x to 4.x

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#demo #hacktoberfest #inquiry #news #rails #refinery

Updated: 2026-05-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-05-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 35 open

3,906

stars

Forks: 1,228
Commits: 10,194 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

cesarferreira/dryrun

☁️ Try the demo project of any Android Library

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#android #dryrun #gradle #ruby #tool

Updated: 2025-10-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-19
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

3,788

stars

Forks: 276
Commits: 179 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jwt/ruby-jwt

A ruby implementation of the RFC 7519 OAuth JSON Web Token (JWT) standard.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#jwk #jwt #jwt-token #oauth-json-web #ruby #ruby-jwt

Updated: 2026-08-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-02-23
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

3,688

stars

Forks: 376
Commits: 1,017 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aws/aws-sdk-ruby

The official AWS SDK for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#aws #aws-sdk #cloud #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-14
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 26 open

3,656

stars

Forks: 1,238
Commits: 8,221 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

scenic-views/scenic

Versioned database views for Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #database #database-views #hacktoberfest #postgres #rails

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-21
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

3,623

stars

Forks: 241
Commits: 265 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

collectiveidea/audited

Audited (formerly acts_as_audited) is an ORM extension that logs all changes to your Rails models.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #audit #audit-log #audit-trail #auditing #rails

Updated: 2025-11-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-07-20
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 210 open

3,495

stars

Forks: 661
Commits: 994 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rouge-ruby/rouge

A pure Ruby code highlighter that is compatible with Pygments

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#minitest #rubocop #ruby #syntax-highlighting

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-08-31
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 220 open

3,451

stars

Forks: 816
Commits: 2,860 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

minitest/minitest

minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, and benchmarking.

Stack

Ruby

GitHub topics

#minitest #ruby #seattlerb #test #testing

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-10-09
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 10 open

3,413

stars

Forks: 582
Commits: 1,095 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

weechat/weechat

The extensible chat client.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #chat #client #extensible #irc #javascript

Updated: 2026-08-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-09-27
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 438 open

3,366

stars

Forks: 360
Commits: 13,971 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Search awesome repositories

Find repositories

Put your repository first

How it works

Pricing

How it works

Pricing