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deivid-rodriguez/byebug

Debugging in Ruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#byebug #debugger #repl #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-03-14
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 93 open

3,349

stars

Forks: 329
Commits: 3,091 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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krisleech/wisper

A micro library providing Ruby objects with Publish-Subscribe capabilities

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#events #publish-subscribe #pubsub #ruby

Updated: 2024-08-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-03-29
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 3 open

3,332

stars

Forks: 154
Commits: 315 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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shrinerb/shrine

File Attachment toolkit for Ruby applications

Stack

Ruby React Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#attachment #background-jobs #direct-upload #file-upload #filesystem #metadata

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-03
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

3,285

stars

Forks: 276
Commits: 2,424 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

alexrudall/ruby-openai

OpenAI API + Ruby! 🤖❤️ GPT-5 & Realtime WebRTC compatible!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#ai #api-client #chatgpt #dall-e #gpt-4 #gpt-4o

Updated: 2026-05-01
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2020-08-03
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 53 open

3,224

stars

Forks: 384
Commits: 1,327 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

truffleruby/truffleruby

A high performance implementation of the Ruby programming language, built on GraalVM.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler PEP 517

GitHub topics

#graalvm #hacktoberfest #ruby #truffle

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-09-10
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 166 open

3,219

stars

Forks: 211
Commits: 70,056 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

peek/peek

Take a peek into your Rails applications.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#elasticsearch #peek #redis #ruby

Updated: 2024-04-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-03-09
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

3,174

stars

Forks: 144
Commits: 320 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pglombardo/PasswordPusher

🔐 Securely share sensitive information with automatic expiration & deletion after a set number of views or duration. Track who, what and when with full audit logs.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler Yarn

GitHub topics

#communicate-passwords #docker-container #encryption #file-sharing #hacktoberfest #information-technology

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-12-28
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 135 open

3,154

stars

Forks: 459
Commits: 4,783 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

layervault/psd.rb

Parse Photoshop files in Ruby with ease

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#document #file-format #parser #photoshop #psd #renderer

Updated: 2021-01-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-05-08
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 25 open

3,116

stars

Forks: 197
Commits: 657 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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httprb/http

HTTP (The Gem! a.k.a. http.rb) - a fast Ruby HTTP client with a chainable API, streaming support, and timeouts

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#client #http #http-client #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-06
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

3,083

stars

Forks: 325
Commits: 1,519 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hashie/hashie

Hashie is a collection of classes and mixins that make Ruby hashes more powerful.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #hash-extensions #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-09-03
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 39 open

3,039

stars

Forks: 315
Commits: 885 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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BayesWitnesses/m2cgen

Transform ML models into a native code (Java, C, Python, Go, JavaScript, Visual Basic, C#, R, PowerShell, PHP, Dart, Haskell, Ruby, F#, Rust) with zero dependencies

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#c #csharp #dartlang #go #haskell #java

Updated: 2024-08-03
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-13
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 62 open

2,996

stars

Forks: 264
Commits: 376 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bensheldon/good_job

Multithreaded, Postgres-based, Active Job backend for Ruby on Rails.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activejob #activejob-backend #hacktoberfest #multithreaded #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-02-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 127 open

2,990

stars

Forks: 250
Commits: 1,470 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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

Website GitHub

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: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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theforeman/foreman

an application that automates the lifecycle of servers

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#cloud #config-management #foreman #hacktoberfest #hybrid-cloud #infrastructure

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-07-13
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

2,916

stars

Forks: 1,044
Commits: 11,415 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website

The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#openstreetmap #rails-application #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-07-28
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 653 open

2,814

stars

Forks: 1,075
Commits: 18,994 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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danbooru/danbooru

A taggable image board written in Rails.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#anime #booru #danbooru #imageboard #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-02-04
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 497 open

2,783

stars

Forks: 449
Commits: 14,666 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

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

GitHub

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

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

GitHub

scambra/devise_invitable

An invitation strategy for devise

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#devise #invitation #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-12-08
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 74 open

2,677

stars

Forks: 543
Commits: 1,109 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

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: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fnando/browser

Do some browser detection with Ruby. Includes ActionController integration.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#browser-detection #rails #ruby #user-agent

Updated: 2025-06-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-07-16
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

2,499

stars

Forks: 366
Commits: 597 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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