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Open-source projects built with Rails

There are currently 96 open-source projects built with Rails, with a combined total of 368.1k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is Ruby.

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forem
foremforem/forem

Open source software for building online communities, powering platforms like dev.to.

22.7k4.2kRuby
1 day ago
Sidekiq
Sidekiqmperham/sidekiq

Simple, efficient background job processing for Ruby applications using Redis.

13.5k2.5kRuby
2 days ago
PgHero
PgHeroankane/pghero

A performance dashboard for Postgres that provides insights into query performance, index usage, and database health.

8.8k475Ruby
8 days ago
Octicons
Octiconsprimer/octicons

A scalable set of SVG icons handcrafted by GitHub for GitHub and other applications.

8.7k841JavaScript
1 day 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
Pundit
Punditelabs/pundit

A minimal authorization library for Ruby on Rails using plain Ruby classes and object-oriented design.

8.5k643Ruby
1 month ago
simple_form
simple_formheartcombo/simple_form

A Rails form builder with a simple DSL that generates forms without imposing markup opinions.

8.2k1.3kRuby
22 days ago
Simple Form
Simple Formplataformatec/simple_form

A Rails form builder with a simple DSL that generates forms without imposing markup opinions.

8.2k1.3kRuby
22 days 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
react-rails
react-railsreactjs/react-rails

Integrate React.js with Rails views, controllers, and asset pipelines for server-side and client-side rendering.

6.8k746JavaScript
5 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
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
Rack Attack
Rack Attackkickstarter/rack-attack

Rack middleware for blocking and throttling abusive requests in Ruby web applications.

5.7k343Ruby
19 days ago
ActiveModel::Serializers
ActiveModel::Serializersrails-api/active_model_serializers

A Rails library for serializing Active Model objects into JSON, with built-in hooks and flexible adapter support.

5.3k1.4kRuby
4 months ago
webpacker
webpackerrails/webpacker

A retired Rails gem that integrated Webpack to manage JavaScript modules in Rails applications.

5.3k1.5kRuby
1 year 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
rspec-rails
rspec-railsrspec/rspec-rails

RSpec integration for Ruby on Rails, providing a behavior-driven testing framework as an alternative to Minitest.

5.3k1.0kRuby
1 month ago
formtastic
formtasticformtastic/formtastic

A Rails form builder DSL that generates semantically rich, accessible HTML forms with clean markup.

5.2k624Ruby
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
Active Merchant
Active Merchantactivemerchant/active_merchant

A Ruby payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify, providing a unified interface to dozens of payment gateways.

4.6k2.5kRuby
5 months ago
annotate
annotatectran/annotate_models

Automatically adds schema and routes information as comments to Rails ActiveRecord models, fixtures, tests, factories, and routes files.

4.5k678Ruby
1 year ago
Jbuilder
Jbuilderrails/jbuilder

A simple DSL for declaring JSON structures in Ruby, particularly helpful when generation involves conditionals and loops.

4.4k449Ruby
2 months ago
Strong Migrations
Strong Migrationsankane/strong_migrations

A Ruby gem that catches unsafe database migrations in development for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB.

4.4k195Ruby
1 day ago
Errbit
Errbiterrbit/errbit

An open-source, self-hosted error catcher that's Airbrake API compliant for collecting and managing application errors.

4.3k990Ruby
2 days ago
Stringer
Stringerswanson/stringer

A self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader with no external dependencies, keyboard shortcuts, and Fever API support.

4.1k391Ruby
3 days ago
Stringer
Stringerstringer-rss/stringer

A self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader with no external dependencies, keyboard shortcuts, and a clean interface.

4.1k391Ruby
3 days ago
rails-i18n
rails-i18nsvenfuchs/rails-i18n

A centralized collection of locale data and internationalization (I18n) resources for Ruby on Rails applications.

4.0k2.7kRuby
18 days 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
Figaro
Figarolaserlemon/figaro

Simple, Heroku-friendly Rails app configuration using ENV and a single YAML file.

3.7k282Ruby
9 months ago
rabl
rablnesquena/rabl

A Ruby templating system for generating JSON, XML, MessagePack, PList, and BSON API responses in Rails and Padrino.

3.6k334Ruby
1 month ago
scenic
scenicscenic-views/scenic

Adds methods to ActiveRecord::Migration for creating and managing versioned database views in Rails applications.

3.6k241Ruby
5 months ago
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