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52 projects228.7k total stars40.5k total forks1 language

Open-source projects built with ActiveRecord

There are currently 52 open-source projects built with ActiveRecord, with a combined total of 228.7k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is Ruby.

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Devise
Deviseplataformatec/devise

A flexible authentication solution for Ruby on Rails applications based on the Warden Rack framework.

24.3k5.5kRuby
14 days ago
devise
deviseheartcombo/devise

Flexible authentication solution for Ruby on Rails based on Warden, offering modular authentication modules.

24.3k5.5kRuby
14 days ago
Paperclip
Paperclipthoughtbot/paperclip

A deprecated Ruby gem for easy file attachment management in ActiveRecord with image processing capabilities.

9.0k2.4kRuby
2 years ago
Carrierwave
Carrierwavecarrierwaveuploader/carrierwave

A simple and flexible Ruby gem for handling file uploads in Rails, Sinatra, and other Rack-based web applications.

8.8k1.6kRuby
3 months ago
kaminari
kaminarikaminari/kaminari

A scope-based, customizable paginator for Ruby web apps supporting multiple ORMs and template engines.

8.7k1.1kRuby
2 months ago
RailsAdmin
RailsAdminsferik/rails_admin

A Rails engine providing an easy-to-use admin interface for managing application data.

8.0k2.3kRuby
7 months ago
rails_admin
rails_adminrailsadminteam/rails_admin

A Rails engine providing an easy-to-use admin interface for managing application data.

8.0k2.3kRuby
7 months ago
Bullet
Bulletflyerhzm/bullet

A Ruby gem that detects N+1 queries, unused eager loading, and missing counter caches to improve application performance.

7.3k454Ruby
2 days ago
PaperTrail
PaperTrailairblade/paper_trail

Track changes to your Rails models for auditing, versioning, and reverting to previous states.

7.0k909Ruby
6 months ago
Geocoder
Geocoderalexreisner/geocoder

A complete Ruby geocoding solution with forward/reverse geocoding, IP address lookup, and ActiveRecord/Mongoid integration.

6.4k1.2kRuby
27 days ago
FriendlyId
FriendlyIdnorman/friendly_id

A comprehensive slugging and permalink plugin for ActiveRecord that creates human-friendly URLs and works with strings as numeric IDs.

6.2k590Ruby
2 months ago
ransack
ransackactiverecord-hackery/ransack

A Ruby gem for adding object-based search and filtering to Rails applications without external dependencies.

5.9k824Ruby
1 month ago
draper
draperdrapergem/draper

A decorator/view-model library for Rails applications that adds an object-oriented layer of presentation logic.

5.3k523Ruby
1 month ago
formtastic
formtasticjustinfrench/formtastic

A Rails form builder DSL that generates semantically rich, accessible HTML forms with minimal code.

5.2k624Ruby
1 month ago
ActsAsTaggableOn
ActsAsTaggableOnmbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on

A Rails plugin for adding flexible, multi-context tagging to ActiveRecord models.

5.0k1.2kRuby
1 month ago
Delayed Job
Delayed Jobcollectiveidea/delayed_job

A database-backed asynchronous priority queue system for Ruby on Rails, extracted from Shopify.

4.8k951Ruby
3 months ago
Authlogic
Authlogicbinarylogic/authlogic

An unobtrusive Ruby authentication library for ActiveRecord-based Rails applications.

4.3k633Ruby
2 months ago
Rails ERD
Rails ERDvoormedia/rails-erd

Generate Entity-Relationship Diagrams for Rails applications using Active Record model reflection.

4.1k376Ruby
2 years ago
flipper
flipperjnunemaker/flipper

A Ruby gem for beautiful, performant feature flags with granular control and multiple storage adapters.

3.9k433Ruby
10 days ago
Ancestry
Ancestrystefankroes/ancestry

A Ruby gem for organizing ActiveRecord models into efficient tree structures using the materialized path pattern.

3.9k471Ruby
12 days ago
Audited
Auditedcollectiveidea/audited

An ActiveRecord extension for Rails that logs all changes to your models, including who made them and why.

3.5k663Ruby
5 months ago
rolify
rolifyRolifyCommunity/rolify

A simple Ruby role management library with resource scoping, designed to integrate with authentication and authorization gems.

3.2k398Ruby
2 months ago
elasticsearch-rails
elasticsearch-railselastic/elasticsearch-rails

A suite of Ruby gems providing seamless Elasticsearch integration for ActiveModel/Record, Rails applications, and Ruby objects.

3.1k802Ruby
6 months ago
public_activity
public_activitychaps-io/public_activity

A Ruby gem for tracking model changes and creating activity feeds in Rails applications, similar to GitHub's public activity.

3.0k331Ruby
3 months ago
paranoia
paranoiarubysherpas/paranoia

A Rails gem for soft-deleting records by setting a deleted_at timestamp instead of removing them from the database.

2.9k528Ruby
5 months ago
Paranoia
Paranoiaradar/paranoia

A Rails gem for soft-deleting records by setting a deleted_at timestamp instead of removing them from the database.

2.9k528Ruby
5 months ago
Apartment
Apartmentinfluitive/apartment

A Ruby gem for implementing database multi-tenancy in Rails applications using PostgreSQL schemas or separate databases.

2.7k460Ruby
1 year ago
Awesome Nested Set
Awesome Nested Setcollectiveidea/awesome_nested_set

A Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord implementation of the nested set pattern for efficient hierarchical data management.

2.4k492Ruby
4 months ago
Discard
Discardjhawthorn/discard

A simple ActiveRecord mixin for soft-deleting records by flagging them as discarded, without overriding ActiveRecord methods.

2.4k93Ruby
1 month ago
CKEditor
CKEditorgaletahub/ckeditor

A Ruby on Rails integration gem for CKEditor 4.x, providing WYSIWYG editor functionality with file upload support.

2.2k867Ruby
1 year ago
Rpush
Rpushrpush/rpush

A Ruby gem for sending push notifications to iOS, Android, Windows, and web platforms with reliability and advanced features.

2.2k381Ruby
9 months ago
globalize
globalizeglobalize/globalize

Rails I18n library for ActiveRecord model translations, enabling multilingual content storage in separate tables.

2.2k498Ruby
4 months ago
counter_culture
counter_culturemagnusvk/counter_culture

A Rails gem providing advanced, flexible counter caches that update on value changes and support multi-level relations.

2.1k224Ruby
3 days ago
ActsAsList
ActsAsListswanandp/acts_as_list

An ActiveRecord plugin for managing ordered lists of items with scoped positioning and reordering methods.

2.1k360Ruby
5 months ago
IdentityCache
IdentityCacheShopify/identity_cache

A blob-level read-through caching solution for ActiveRecord that adds fetch methods to cache model objects and associations using Memcached.

2.0k173Ruby
4 days ago
closure_tree
closure_treemceachen/closure_tree

A Ruby gem for efficiently modeling hierarchical data in ActiveRecord using closure tree tables.

1.9k248Ruby
17 days ago
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