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rails/rails

Ruby on Rails

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#activejob #activerecord #framework #html #mvc #rails

Updated: 2026-08-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2004-11-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,589 open

58,696

stars

Forks: 22,367
Commits: 99,397 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

discourse/discourse

A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#discourse #ember #forum #javascript #postgresql #rails

Updated: 2026-08-22
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-05
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

47,697

stars

Forks: 8,996
Commits: 67,592 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

chatwoot/chatwoot

Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬

AI dev

Stack

Ruby React Ruby on Rails Svelte Tailwind CSS Bundler npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#actioncable #chat-widget #conversation #customer-support #dashboard #design

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-14
History: 107 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,413 open

36,843

stars

Forks: 8,936
Commits: 6,794 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +201 +0.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +19 +0.3%

Website GitHub

gitlabhq/gitlabhq

GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com

Stack

Ruby

GitHub topics

#gitlab #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-08
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

24,531

stars

Forks: 5,982
Commits: 117,974 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

heartcombo/devise

Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#authentication #devise #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-09-16
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 230 open

24,354

stars

Forks: 5,478
Commits: 3,973 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

forem/forem

For empowering community 🌱

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#community #discussion #feedback #hacktoberfest #open-source #rails

Updated: 2026-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-02-28
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 126 open

22,769

stars

Forks: 4,180
Commits: 14,842 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

diaspora/diaspora

A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#decentralized #distributed #federated #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2010-06-11
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 425 open

13,648

stars

Forks: 2,861
Commits: 21,104 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

activeadmin/activeadmin

The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Vite Vue Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#activeadmin #admin-ui #arbre #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-04-15
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 31 open

9,703

stars

Forks: 3,323
Commits: 8,976 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kaminari/kaminari

⚡ A Scope & Engine based, clean, powerful, customizable and sophisticated paginator for Ruby webapps

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#kaminari #pagination #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-02-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-02-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 74 open

8,673

stars

Forks: 1,074
Commits: 1,714 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

heartcombo/simple_form

Forms made easy for Rails! It's tied to a simple DSL, with no opinion on markup.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#dsl #form-builder #rails #rails-helper #ruby

Updated: 2026-04-01
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-18
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 37 open

8,227

stars

Forks: 1,295
Commits: 2,118 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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basecamp/fizzy

Kanban as it should be. Not as it has been.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#hotwire #kanban #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2024-06-21
History: 106 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 70 open

8,199

stars

Forks: 1,191
Commits: 10,193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +10 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +14 +0.1%

Website GitHub

thoughtbot/factory_bot

A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#factories #factory-bot #factory-girl #fixtures #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-05-28
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 81 open

8,169

stars

Forks: 2,554
Commits: 1,317 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

presidentbeef/brakeman

A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#brakeman #rails #ruby #security #security-audit #security-tools

Updated: 2026-08-13
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-27
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 112 open

7,262

stars

Forks: 776
Commits: 4,229 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

paper-trail-gem/paper_trail

Track changes to your rails models

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#activerecord #audit #log #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-05-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-05-27
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

7,029

stars

Forks: 909
Commits: 2,425 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

reactjs/react-rails

Integrate React.js with Rails views and controllers, the asset pipeline, or webpacker.

Stack

JavaScript Express React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#jsx #rails #react #react-rails #ruby #sprockets

Updated: 2026-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-25
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 38 open

6,775

stars

Forks: 740
Commits: 1,536 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

sj26/mailcatcher

Catches mail and serves it through a dream.

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#development #devtools #mail #rails #ruby #rubygems

Updated: 2024-05-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-25
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 46 open

6,774

stars

Forks: 606
Commits: 586 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ankane/searchkick

Intelligent search made easy

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#elasticsearch #opensearch #rails

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-07-15
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

6,721

stars

Forks: 762
Commits: 3,218 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rubocop/rails-style-guide

A community-driven Ruby on Rails style guide

GitHub topics

#rails #rubocop #ruby #styleguide

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-09-25
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 43 open

6,506

stars

Forks: 1,049
Commits: 495 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

norman/friendly_id

FriendlyId is the “Swiss Army bulldozer” of slugging and permalink plugins for ActiveRecord. It allows you to create pretty URL’s and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids for ActiveRecord models.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#friendly-url #plugin #rails #ruby #slug

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-01-08
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

6,226

stars

Forks: 591
Commits: 1,631 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

activerecord-hackery/ransack

Object-based searching.

Stack

Ruby React Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#activerecord #rails #ruby #ruby-gem #ruby-library #ruby-on-rails

Updated: 2026-05-31
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-03-31
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 156 open

5,863

stars

Forks: 822
Commits: 1,919 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zammad/zammad

Zammad is a web based open source helpdesk/customer support system.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Vite Vue Bundler npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#coffeescript #customer-care #customer-support #graphql #helpdesk #javascript

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-04-10
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 446 open

5,834

stars

Forks: 1,028
Commits: 19,740 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

CanCanCommunity/cancancan

The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.

Stack

Ruby Vite Vue Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#authorization #cancancan #rails

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 93 open

5,688

stars

Forks: 633
Commits: 1,352 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

mislav/will_paginate

Pagination library for Rails and other Ruby applications

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#pagination #pagination-library #plugin #rails #ruby #sequel

Updated: 2025-11-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-02-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 46 open

5,685

stars

Forks: 857
Commits: 788 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rmosolgo/graphql-ruby

Ruby implementation of GraphQL

Stack

Ruby React Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#graphql #graphql-ruby #hacktoberfest #rails #relay #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-05
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 64 open

5,444

stars

Forks: 1,419
Commits: 11,570 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

solidusio/solidus

🛒 Solidus, the open-source eCommerce framework for industry trailblazers.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#ecommerce #ecommerce-framework #ecommerce-platform #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2008-02-25
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 109 open

5,318

stars

Forks: 1,399
Commits: 30,697 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rails/webpacker

Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#frontend #hacktoberfest #javascript #rails #webpack #yarn

Updated: 2024-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-07
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

5,273

stars

Forks: 1,447
Commits: 1,585 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

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

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

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

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

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