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Open-source projects built with Ruby

There are currently 1340 open-source projects built with Ruby, with a combined total of 2338.7k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is Ruby.

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VCR
VCRvcr/vcr

A Ruby library that records HTTP interactions and replays them for fast, deterministic tests.

6.1k510Ruby
1 month ago
TIC-80
TIC-80nesbox/TIC-80

A fantasy computer for making, playing, and sharing tiny retro games with built-in development tools.

6.1k619C
18 days ago
Synx
Synxvenmo/synx

A command-line tool that reorganizes your Xcode project folder structure to match your Xcode groups.

6.0k265Ruby
7 years ago
administrate
administratethoughtbot/administrate

A Rails engine for generating flexible, customizable admin dashboards with clean interfaces.

6.0k1.1kJavaScript
4 days ago
Faraday
Faradaylostisland/faraday

A flexible HTTP client library for Ruby with adapter abstraction and Rack middleware support.

5.9k1.0kRuby
1 month ago
httparty
httpartyjnunemaker/httparty

A Ruby library that simplifies HTTP requests with an intuitive API and built-in command-line interface.

5.9k969Ruby
4 months ago
ransack
ransackactiverecord-hackery/ransack

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

5.9k823Ruby
1 month ago
ransack
ransackactiverecord-hackery/ransack

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

5.9k823Ruby
1 month ago
Concurrent Ruby
Concurrent Rubyruby-concurrency/concurrent-ruby

A comprehensive suite of modern concurrency abstractions and thread-safe utilities for Ruby, inspired by Erlang, Clojure, and Java.

5.8k413Ruby
5 days ago
Rack Attack
Rack Attackkickstarter/rack-attack

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

5.8k344Ruby
22 days ago
fast-ruby
fast-rubyJuanitoFatas/fast-ruby

A collection of Ruby idioms with performance benchmarks to help developers write faster Ruby code.

5.7k374Ruby
26 days ago
will_paginate
will_paginatemislav/will_paginate

A pagination library for Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Hanami::View, and Sequel applications.

5.7k857Ruby
8 months ago
cancancan
cancancanCanCanCommunity/cancancan

An authorization library for Ruby and Ruby on Rails that centralizes permission logic and restricts resource access.

5.7k635Ruby
27 days ago
cancancan
cancancancancancommunity/cancancan

An authorization library for Ruby and Ruby on Rails that centralizes permission logic and restricts resource access.

5.7k635Ruby
27 days ago
Danger
Dangerdanger/danger

Automates common code review chores by running during CI to enforce team norms and highlight issues in pull requests.

5.7k488Ruby
1 month ago
MRuby
MRubymruby/mruby

A lightweight Ruby implementation designed for embedding and linking within applications, with ISO standard compliance.

5.6k845C
1 day ago
doorkeeper
doorkeeperdoorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper

A Ruby gem that provides OAuth 2 provider functionality for Ruby on Rails and Grape applications.

5.5k1.1kRuby
1 day ago
graphql-ruby
graphql-rubyrmosolgo/graphql-ruby

A Ruby implementation of the GraphQL specification for building type-safe APIs.

5.5k1.4kRuby
1 day ago
Slim
Slimslim-template/slim

A fast, lightweight Ruby template language that reduces HTML syntax to essential parts using indentation.

5.4k497Ruby
2 months 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
7 months ago
draper
draperdrapergem/draper

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

5.3k526Ruby
1 month ago
webpacker
webpackerrails/webpacker

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

5.3k1.4kRuby
2 years 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
AASM
AASMaasm/aasm

AASM is a Ruby library for adding finite state machines to plain Ruby classes and ORM models like ActiveRecord and Mongoid.

5.2k644Ruby
19 days ago
formtastic
formtasticformtastic/formtastic

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

5.2k625Ruby
4 months ago
formtastic
formtasticjustinfrench/formtastic

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

5.2k625Ruby
4 months ago
rest-client
rest-clientrest-client/rest-client

A simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby with a Sinatra-inspired DSL for specifying actions.

5.2k931Ruby
2 years ago
colorls
colorlsathityakumar/colorls

A Ruby gem that beautifies the terminal's ls command with color and Font Awesome icons.

5.1k397Ruby
4 months ago
colorls
colorlsathityakumar/colorls

A Ruby gem that beautifies the terminal's ls command with color and Font Awesome icons.

5.1k397Ruby
4 months ago
ActsAsTaggableOn
ActsAsTaggableOnmbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on

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

5.0k1.2kRuby
18 days ago
Pagy
Pagyddnexus/pagy

A fast, lightweight, and agnostic pagination gem for Ruby applications with multiple pagination techniques and frontend helpers.

5.0k445Ruby
1 day ago
Opal
Opalopal/opal

Opal is a Ruby to JavaScript source-to-source compiler with a complete Ruby corelib and stdlib implementation.

4.9k336Ruby
2 months ago
SimpleCov
SimpleCovcolszowka/simplecov

A code coverage analysis tool for Ruby with powerful configuration and automatic merging across test suites.

4.9k576Ruby
1 day ago
Backup
Backupbackup/backup

A RubyGem utility for modeling and performing full-stack backup operations on UNIX-like systems.

4.9k666Ruby
2 years ago
Delayed Job
Delayed Jobcollectiveidea/delayed_job

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

4.8k946Ruby
11 days ago
Prawn
Prawnprawnpdf/prawn

A pure Ruby library for generating PDF documents with extensive text, vector drawing, and internationalization support.

4.8k695Ruby
3 months ago
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