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Retrospring/retrospring

Q/A based social network

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #justask #questions-and-answers #rails #retrospring #ruby

Updated: 2025-08-31
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-08-01
History: 6 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 51 open

285

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 6,508 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rapidftr/RapidFTR

RapidFTR streamlines and speeds up the Family Tracing and Reunification process using small handheld devices to collect information. UNICEF no longer supports RapidFTR, but please check out www.primero.org to see what RapidFTR has grown into.

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2016-12-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-01-29
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

284

stars

Forks: 317
Commits: 4,805 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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zauberware/rails-devise-graphql

A Rails 6 boilerplate to create your next Saas product. Preloaded with graphQL, devise, JWT, CanCanCan, RailsAdmin, Rubocop, Rspec, i18n and more.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#api-only #authentication-backend #boilerplate #boilerplate-template #devise #devise-jwt

Updated: 2023-01-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-02-09
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

284

stars

Forks: 52
Commits: 140 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Gokul595/api_guard

JWT authentication solution for Rails APIs

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#api #api-auth #api-authentication #api-guard #authentication #jwt

Updated: 2023-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-03-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

279

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 192 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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codemancers/invoicing

Ruby invoicing framework gem

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2023-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-11-27
History: 116 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

266

stars

Forks: 38
Commits: 303 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

rails/actionpack-action_caching

Action caching for Action Pack (removed from core in Rails 4.0)

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2022-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-10-04
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

266

stars

Forks: 96
Commits: 130 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bigbinary/wheel

Don't reinvent the wheel for every new Rails project. Use sane Defaults.

Archived

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Vite Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#boilerplate #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-05-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-19
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

265

stars

Forks: 196
Commits: 1,269 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

natew/obtvse2

A clean and simple markdown blogging platform on Rails.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2018-05-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-13
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

255

stars

Forks: 65
Commits: 58 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bugsnag/bugsnag-ruby

BugSnag error monitoring & reporting software for rails, sinatra, rack and ruby

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#bug-tracking-tool #bugs #bugsnag #crash #debug #debugging-tool

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-09
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

254

stars

Forks: 177
Commits: 2,294 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

commudle/commudle

A Community Interaction & Management Tool, From The Community!

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler npm

Updated: 2025-01-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-02-26
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 47 open

246

stars

Forks: 59
Commits: 304 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hot-glue-for-rails/hot-glue

Rapid scaffold builder for Turbo-Rails and Hotwire. Get the tutorial now at:

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#rails #rails6 #rails7 #turbo #turbo-rails

Updated: 2026-06-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-23
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1 open

240

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 775 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

magma-labs/magma-chat

Ruby on Rails 7-based ChatGPT Bot Platform

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#ai #bot-framework #gpt #llm #openai #openai-api

Updated: 2023-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-04-11
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 23 open

223

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 249 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

filestack/filestack-rails

Official Ruby on Rails plugin for Filestack File Picker that makes it easy to add powerful file uploading and transformation capabilities to any web or mobile application.

Stack

JavaScript Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #ruby #ruby-gem #ruby-on-rails #transforming-files #upload

Updated: 2024-12-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-09-19
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 12 open

222

stars

Forks: 98
Commits: 493 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

AlexB52/retest

A trusty CLI companion to monitor file changes and automatically run the corresponding Ruby specs. Ready to assist on any Ruby project, no setup needed!

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#bundler #cli #file-changes #hanami #rails #refactoring

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-08-29
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

220

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 274 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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customink/secondbase

Seamless second database integration for Rails.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #database-management #database-tasks #migrations #rails #secondbase-database

Updated: 2026-01-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-12-03
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

219

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 225 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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adamcooke/documentation

A Rails engine to provide the ability to add documentation to a Rails application

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2023-01-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-07-11
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 22 open

213

stars

Forks: 36
Commits: 70 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jetthoughts/vuejs-rails-starterkit

Vue.js + Rails Starting Kit GitHub Template to develop Hybrid Mobile Application: https://vuejs-rails-starterkit.herokuapp.com

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Vue Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#boilerplate-template #hackathon #heroku #nodejs #rails #rails-boilerplate

Updated: 2023-01-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-04-12
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

213

stars

Forks: 32
Commits: 7 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

drecom/activerecord-turntable

ActiveRecord Sharding Plugin

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #rails #ruby #sharding

Updated: 2023-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

206

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 716 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

samvera/hyrax

Hyrax is a Ruby on Rails Engine built by the Samvera community. Hyrax provides a foundation for creating many different digital repository applications.

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#blacklight #fcrepo #hydra-community #hyrax #rails #repository

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-17
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 571 open

201

stars

Forks: 138
Commits: 17,082 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

coderwall/coderwall-next

No description.

Archived

Stack

Ruby Express React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

Updated: 2025-12-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-19
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

200

stars

Forks: 48
Commits: 622 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

expertiza/expertiza

Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#bower #docker #education #expertiza #expertiza-wiki #nsf

Updated: 2026-05-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-05-24
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 265 open

194

stars

Forks: 1,332
Commits: 12,988 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

elorest/petergate

Easy to use and read action and content based authorizations.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest2020

Updated: 2025-06-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

192

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 243 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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enjaku4/rabarber

Simple role-based authorization library for Ruby on Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#authorization #gem #multitenancy #rails #rbac #roles

Updated: 2026-08-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-12-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

189

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 675 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

benwbrum/fromthepage

FromThePage is a wiki-like application for crowdsourcing transcription of handwritten documents.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-01-29
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 474 open

185

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 10,816 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

amatsuda/motorhead

A Rails Engine framework that helps safe and rapid feature prototyping

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#ab-testing #engine #prototyping #rails

Updated: 2017-04-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-29
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

181

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 122 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

koedame/rails-mermaid_erd

Generate Mermaid ERD from your Ruby on Rails application.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#diagram #erd #gem #mermaid #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2026-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-10-08
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

180

stars

Forks: 29
Commits: 242 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

avmnu-sng/rspec-tracer

RSpec Tracer is a specs dependency analyzer, flaky tests detector, tests accelerator, and coverage reporter tool.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Vite Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#coverage #coverage-report #jruby #parallel-tests #rails #rspec

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-08-06
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

174

stars

Forks: 18
Commits: 200 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

OpenGems/redis_web_manager

Manage your Redis instance (see keys, memory used, connected client, etc...)

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#rails #rails-engine #rails-redis #redis #redis-client #redis-monitor

Updated: 2025-02-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-02-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

169

stars

Forks: 25
Commits: 134 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

liaoziyang/stackneveroverflow

A simple Q&A platform using Ruby on Rails, support markdown.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#qa #rails #ruby #user-sign

Updated: 2023-01-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-06-08
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 11 open

166

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 61 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lockstep/rails_new

A thoughtfully designed template for building modern Rails apps. Get started in minutes instead of hours 🔥🚀

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#figaro #heroku #pry #rails #rspec #ruby

Updated: 2023-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-18
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

164

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 461 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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