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Open-source projects built with Rails

There are currently 203 open-source projects built with Rails, with a combined total of 429.3k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is Ruby.

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ahoy_email
ahoy_emailankane/ahoy_email

First-party email analytics for Rails applications, providing message history, UTM tagging, and click tracking.

1.2k141Ruby
2 months ago
Phonelib
Phonelibdaddyz/phonelib

A Ruby gem for phone number validation, formatting, and parsing using Google's libphonenumber data.

1.2k138Ruby
2 days ago
ActiveScaffold
ActiveScaffoldactivescaffold/active_scaffold

A Rails gem that provides a quick and powerful user interface for CRUD operations, including search, pagination, and layout control.

1.1k332Ruby
5 days ago
active_decorator
active_decoratoramatsuda/active_decorator

An ORM-agnostic decorator pattern library for Rails that automatically enhances models with view-specific logic.

1.1k110Ruby
3 months ago
rails-settings-cached
rails-settings-cachedhuacnlee/rails-settings-cached

A Rails gem for managing global application settings with ActiveRecord-like syntax and built-in caching.

1.1k203Ruby
1 year ago
jquery-ui-rails
jquery-ui-railsjquery-ui-rails/jquery-ui-rails

Packages jQuery UI assets (JavaScript, CSS, images) for seamless integration with the Rails asset pipeline.

1.1k241Ruby
1 year ago
render_async
render_asyncrenderedtext/render_async

A Rails gem for asynchronously rendering partials via AJAX to improve page load speed.

1.1k72Ruby
1 year ago
LazyHighCharts
LazyHighChartsmichelson/lazy_high_charts

A Ruby gem that provides a simple and flexible way to generate Highcharts from Ruby code, compatible with Rails, Sinatra, and other web frameworks.

1.0k240Ruby
3 years ago
select2-rails
select2-railsargerim/select2-rails

Integrates the Select2 jQuery plugin with the Rails asset pipeline for enhanced dropdown functionality.

964366Ruby
3 years ago
breadcrumbs_on_rails
breadcrumbs_on_railsweppos/breadcrumbs_on_rails

A Ruby on Rails plugin for creating and managing breadcrumb navigation with a flexible interface.

954190Ruby
1 year ago
route_translator
route_translatorenriclluelles/route_translator

A Ruby gem for translating Rails application routes into multiple languages using a simple dictionary format.

945144Ruby
20 days ago
jquery-rails
jquery-railsrails/jquery-rails

A Ruby gem that provides jQuery and jQuery UJS for Rails applications via the asset pipeline.

944407Ruby
7 months ago
MailForm
MailFormheartcombo/mail_form

A Rails gem for sending emails directly from forms with built-in validations, I18n, attachments, and request information.

87164Ruby
2 months ago
active_link_to
active_link_tocomfy/active_link_to

A Rails view helper that automatically adds 'active' CSS classes to links based on the current page.

85483Ruby
2 years ago
acl9
acl9be9/acl9

A concise DSL for role-based authorization in Rails applications, focused on clarity and testability.

850111Ruby
1 year ago
acl9
acl9be9/acl9

A concise DSL for role-based authorization in Rails applications, focused on clarity and testability.

850111Ruby
1 year ago
Glimmer
Glimmerandyobtiva/glimmer

A DSL framework for building Ruby GUI applications and domain-specific languages with built-in data-binding.

83616Ruby
1 month ago
Bh
Bhfullscreen/bh

A Ruby gem providing view helpers to simplify Bootstrap 6 component usage in Rails applications.

83274Ruby
18 days ago
inaturalist
inaturalistinaturalist/inaturalist

Open-source Rails application powering iNaturalist.org, a platform for recording and sharing biodiversity observations.

828228JavaScript
4 hours ago
tinymce-rails
tinymce-railsspohlenz/tinymce-rails

A Ruby gem that integrates the TinyMCE rich text editor with the Rails asset pipeline for easy inclusion and configuration.

824264JavaScript
8 hours ago
CableReady
CableReadyhopsoft/cable_ready

Trigger client-side DOM changes from server-side Ruby via ActionCable for real-time user experiences.

77274Ruby
11 months ago
caxlsx_rails
caxlsx_railscaxlsx/caxlsx_rails

A Rails plugin that adds spreadsheet template rendering using the caxlsx gem, enabling Excel generation within views.

76085Ruby
1 month ago
Unread
Unreadledermann/unread

A Ruby on Rails gem to manage read/unread status of ActiveRecord objects with high performance.

742121Ruby
2 months ago
Shift
Shiftsquare/shift

An application for running safe, online schema migrations on MySQL databases with a web UI and shard support.

74050Ruby
1 year ago
Online Migrations
Online Migrationsfatkodima/online_migrations

A Ruby gem that catches unsafe PostgreSQL migrations in development and provides helpers to run them safely in production.

73827Ruby
5 days ago
stimulus-rails
stimulus-railshotwired/stimulus-rails

A Ruby gem that seamlessly integrates the Stimulus JavaScript framework into Rails applications with automatic setup for import maps or bundlers.

72592JavaScript
1 year ago
orats
oratsnickjj/orats

A CLI tool to generate opinionated Rails application templates with Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Sidekiq pre-configured.

65953Ruby
5 years ago
s3_direct_upload
s3_direct_uploadwaynehoover/s3_direct_upload

A Ruby gem for direct client-side file uploads to Amazon S3 with CORS support, integrated with Rails.

654327Ruby
2 years ago
Version Cake
Version Cakebwillis/versioncake

An unobtrusive Ruby gem for versioning APIs in Rails or Rack applications using versioned view templates.

65245Ruby
3 years ago
sorbet-rails
sorbet-railschanzuckerberg/sorbet-rails

A gem that generates RBI files and provides runtime helpers to integrate Sorbet static type checking with Ruby on Rails applications.

63183Ruby
2 years ago
aws-sdk-rails
aws-sdk-railsaws/aws-sdk-rails

A Ruby on Rails plugin that integrates AWS services with your application using the AWS SDK for Ruby.

61564Ruby
1 month ago
Tolk
Tolktolk/tolk

A Rails engine providing a web interface for managing i18n translations, syncing with YAML files.

609153HTML
1 year ago
ActsAsTree
ActsAsTreeamerine/acts_as_tree

A Ruby gem that extends ActiveRecord to easily model hierarchical parent-child relationships in Rails applications.

59787Ruby
4 years ago
Curly
Curlyzendesk/curly

A Ruby template language that separates HTML structure from Ruby logic using presenter classes.

59221Ruby
3 months ago
AngularJS Rails Templates
AngularJS Rails Templatespitr/angular-rails-templates

A Ruby gem that integrates AngularJS templates with Rails' asset pipeline, caching them for direct client-side use.

561171Ruby
6 months ago
anycable-rails
anycable-railsanycable/anycable-rails

A drop-in replacement for Action Cable that enables Ruby on Rails applications to use AnyCable for realtime WebSocket communication.

53337Ruby
2 months ago
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