Open-source ruby software
866 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged ruby, ranked by how closely ruby is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
866 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| rhomobile/rhodes Rhodes is an open-source cross-platform mobile application framework for building locally executing, device-optimized native apps using web… | 47 | 1058 | active |
| hpyhacking/peatio Peatio is an open-source cryptocurrency exchange platform built with Ruby on Rails, featuring a high-performance matching engine, WebSocket… | 60 | 3604 | maintenance |
| Oxidized Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool that periodically fetches running configs from network equipment and stores them, wi… | 91 | 3597 | maintenance |
| jaimeiniesta/metainspector MetaInspector is a Ruby gem for web scraping that fetches a given URL and exposes its title, meta description, keywords, links, images, cha… | 77 | 1049 | active |
| splitwise/super_diff SuperDiff is a Ruby gem that provides an intelligent diff engine for comparing complex data structures in RSpec tests. It replaces RSpec's … | 80 | 1048 | active |
| ViewComponent/view_component ViewComponent is a Ruby framework for building reusable, testable, and encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails, inspired by React and… | 95 | 3573 | maintenance |
| arsduo/koala Koala is a lightweight Ruby library for the Facebook Graph, Marketing, and Atlas APIs, including realtime updates, test users, batch reques… | 76 | 3572 | maintenance |
| rails/propshaft Propshaft is a modern asset pipeline library for Rails that serves and fingerprints assets with digest stamping. It offers a simpler, faste… | 82 | 1043 | stable |
| ruby/prism Prism is a portable, error-tolerant parser for the Ruby programming language written in dependency-free C99. It provides a shared library (… | 89 | 1039 | stable |
| jarrekk/Jalpc Jalpc is a flexible, lightweight Jekyll theme for building personal websites, portfolios, resumes, and blogs. It renders pages from YAML da… | 23 | 1039 | stable |
| yaoyao-liu/minimal-light Minimal Light is a simple, elegant Jekyll theme designed for academic personal homepages, deployable via GitHub Pages. It supports Markdown… | 61 | 1038 | active |
| rails/solid_cache Solid Cache is a database-backed ActiveSupport::Cache::Store for Rails that stores cache entries in SQL databases (SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQ… | 76 | 1036 | stable |
| RubyUI RubyUI is a Ruby gem providing a shadcn/ui-inspired library of beautifully designed, accessible, copy-and-paste UI components built on Phle… | 86 | 1035 | active |
| alphagov/whitehall Whitehall is a Ruby on Rails application used by UK government publishers to create and manage content published on GOV.UK. It provides an … | 94 | 1033 | active |
| ruby-i18n/i18n The standard internationalization and localization library for Ruby, providing translation lookup, locale switching, pluralization, and loc… | 86 | 1033 | stable |
| ledermann/rails-settings A Ruby gem for Rails that manages per-record settings for ActiveRecord models, storing them as serialized hashes in a dedicated database ta… | 40 | 1028 | active |
| net-ssh/net-ssh Net::SSH is a pure-Ruby implementation of the SSH2 client protocol, packaged as a Ruby gem. It lets Ruby programs open SSH connections to r… | 77 | 1024 | active |
| Public Lab Plots2 plots2 is the Ruby on Rails content management system powering PublicLab.org, combining a research blog, wiki, Q&A portal, and tagging-base… | 44 | 1023 | active |
| mattheworiordan/capybara-screenshot A Ruby gem that automatically captures screenshots and HTML snapshots of the page whenever a Capybara-driven test fails in Cucumber, RSpec,… | 50 | 1022 | active |
| Parallels/vagrant-parallels An official Vagrant provider plugin that lets Vagrant manage Parallels Desktop for Mac virtual machines on macOS hosts. It supports core Va… | 76 | 1011 | active |
| danielpclark/rutie Rutie is a Rust library providing safe, idiomatic bindings to the Ruby VM, allowing you to embed Ruby in Rust or write Ruby native extensio… | 77 | 1009 | active |
| brunofacca/active-record-query-trace A Rails plugin that logs a backtrace for every SQL query executed by Active Record in the development console and log. It helps developers … | 57 | 1009 | active |
| Padrino Padrino is a full-stack Ruby web framework built on top of Sinatra, adding generators, routing, an admin interface, mailer, caching, and au… | 77 | 3404 | maintenance |
| noraj/haiti Haiti is a CLI tool and Ruby library that identifies hash types, detecting 675+ hash formats including modern algorithms like SHA3, Keccak,… | 73 | 1003 | active |
| Loofah Loofah is a Ruby library built on Nokogiri for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, including a framework for wr… | 86 | 1000 | stable |
| RailsApps/rails-composer Rails Composer is a Ruby-based generator that extends the standard Rails generator to produce full starter applications with authentication… | 32 | 3360 | maintenance |
| burke/zeus Zeus is a CLI tool that preloads a Rails (or other Ruby) application so common development commands like console, server, generators, and t… | 87 | 3319 | maintenance |
| Smashing/smashing Smashing is a Sinatra-based Ruby framework for building attractive, widget-based dashboards, serving as the maintained successor to Shopify… | 23 | 3300 | maintenance |
| FontCustom/fontcustom Font Custom is a Ruby command-line tool that compiles a collection of SVG files into cross-browser icon webfonts, generating the font files… | 56 | 3295 | maintenance |
| mojombo/chronic Chronic is a pure Ruby natural language date and time parser that converts phrases like 'tomorrow at 6:45pm' or '3rd wednesday in november'… | 32 | 3251 | maintenance |
| thoughtbot/high_voltage High Voltage is a Rails engine that makes it easy to serve static pages like 'About us' or marketing pages from an app/views/pages director… | 59 | 3234 | maintenance |
| Peek Peek is a Rails profiling tool, originally built at GitHub, that overlays a performance bar on your application showing request metrics lik… | 23 | 3173 | maintenance |
| apigy/selfstarter Selfstarter is an open-source Ruby on Rails skeleton for rolling your own crowdfunding site, originally built by Lockitron after their Kick… | 32 | 3151 | maintenance |
| twitter/twitter-text A collection of official Twitter libraries and conformance tests for parsing and tokenizing Tweet text. It determines character counts and … | 23 | 3136 | maintenance |
| PSD.rb PSD.rb is a Ruby library for parsing Adobe Photoshop (PSD) files. It exposes the document as a manageable tree structure with access to lay… | 23 | 3115 | maintenance |
| gon Gon is a Ruby gem for Rails that lets you pass server-side variables from controllers directly into your JavaScript with a single layout ta… | 90 | 3105 | maintenance |
| nathanvda/cocoon A Ruby gem for Ruby on Rails that simplifies building dynamic nested forms, allowing users to add and remove nested model fields (e.g., tas… | 32 | 3071 | maintenance |
| SUSE/Portus Portus is an open-source authorization service and web UI for the Docker Registry v2 API, providing fine-grained push/pull permissions via … | 10 | 2981 | maintenance |
| pdfkit/pdfkit PDFKit is a Ruby gem that converts HTML and CSS into PDF documents by wrapping the wkhtmltopdf command-line utility, which renders HTML via… | 23 | 2940 | maintenance |
| curtis0x/fake-s3 Fake S3 is a lightweight Ruby server that mimics the Amazon S3 API, supporting commands like put, get, list, copy, and bucket creation. It … | 10 | 2922 | maintenance |
| rubysherpas/paranoia Paranoia is a Ruby gem that adds soft-delete functionality to Rails ActiveRecord models via acts_as_paranoid, hiding records by setting a d… | 53 | 2915 | maintenance |
| zmoazeni/csscss csscss is a Ruby command-line tool that parses CSS files and reports which rulesets share duplicated declarations. It also supports Sass/SC… | 10 | 2890 | maintenance |
| activeadmin/inherited_resources Inherited Resources is a Ruby gem for Rails that lets controllers inherit all standard RESTful actions, so developers only write the parts … | 66 | 2717 | maintenance |
| ComfortableMexicanSofa ComfortableMexicanSofa is a Ruby on Rails CMS engine that adds content management capabilities to Rails 5.2+ applications with minimal conf… | 23 | 2707 | maintenance |
| kanwei/algorithms A Ruby library providing common algorithms and data structures such as heaps, red-black trees, tries, suffix arrays, sorting, and searching… | 60 | 2695 | maintenance |
| Apartment Apartment is a Ruby gem providing database-level multi-tenancy for Rack and Rails applications, supporting tenant isolation via PostgreSQL … | 32 | 2682 | maintenance |
| xcpretty/xcode-install A Ruby gem providing the `xcversion` CLI to list, install, update, and select Xcode versions on macOS by automating Apple's Developer Downl… | 23 | 2602 | maintenance |
| mitchellh/vagrant-aws A Vagrant plugin that adds an AWS provider, letting Vagrant boot, SSH into, and provision EC2 and VPC instances. It supports multi-region c… | 10 | 2586 | maintenance |
| TTY TTY is a modular Ruby toolkit for building command-line applications, providing a `teletype` scaffolding executable and composable componen… | 32 | 2529 | maintenance |
| Serverspec Serverspec is a Ruby library for writing RSpec tests that verify servers are configured correctly, executing commands locally, via SSH, Win… | 64 | 2520 | maintenance |
| Chris911/iStats iStats is a Ruby gem providing a command-line tool for reading Mac hardware stats such as CPU temperature, fan speeds, and battery informat… | 32 | 2458 | maintenance |
| gravityblast/web-app-theme A Rails generator gem that scaffolds admin panel layouts and themes for web applications. It provides multiple prebuilt CSS themes and gene… | 32 | 2440 | maintenance |
| refile/refile Refile is a Ruby file upload library for web applications, offering configurable backends (file system, S3), ORM integration, on-the-fly im… | 32 | 2434 | maintenance |
| postrank-labs/goliath Goliath is an open-source non-blocking (asynchronous) Ruby web server framework built on EventMachine, offering Rack API and middleware sup… | 32 | 2424 | maintenance |
| remi/teamocil Teamocil is a Ruby CLI tool that automatically creates tmux windows and panes from declarative YAML layout files. It lets developers define… | 32 | 2410 | maintenance |
| NoamB/sorcery Sorcery is a Ruby authentication library for Rails 3 & 4 providing simple, modular authentication features. This original repository has mo… | 32 | 2300 | maintenance |
| apneadiving/Google-Maps-for-Rails Gmaps4rails is a Ruby library that makes it easy to create Google Maps with overlays such as markers, infowindows, and KML layers in Ruby (… | 32 | 2248 | maintenance |
| wvanbergen/request-log-analyzer A command-line tool written in Ruby that parses log files and generates performance and usage reports. It supports many formats out of the … | 10 | 2236 | maintenance |
| ckeditor A Ruby gem that integrates the CKEditor 4.x WYSIWYG rich text editor into Rails applications. It provides generators for file upload models… | 23 | 2223 | maintenance |
| mojombo/god God is an easy-to-configure, easy-to-extend process monitoring framework written in Ruby. It keeps server processes and tasks running using… | 23 | 2218 | maintenance |
| LionSec/xerosploit Xerosploit is a Ruby-based penetration testing toolkit that wraps bettercap and nmap to perform man-in-the-middle attacks, port scanning, a… | 23 | 2204 | maintenance |
| adamcooke/staytus Staytus is a self-hosted, open-source status page application built with Ruby on Rails for publishing the status of services, incidents, an… | 32 | 2172 | maintenance |
| Hologram Hologram is a Ruby gem that parses specially formatted /*doc */ comments in CSS (and other source files) and generates static HTML style gu… | 32 | 2165 | maintenance |
| Globalize Globalize is a Ruby gem that extends Rails' I18n API to provide translations for ActiveRecord model data, letting you store and query trans… | 86 | 2156 | maintenance |
| mmistakes/so-simple-theme So Simple is a minimal Jekyll theme for blogs and personal sites, distributed as a Ruby gem and compatible with GitHub Pages. It provides c… | 23 | 2125 | maintenance |
| Dragonfly Dragonfly is a Ruby gem for on-the-fly processing and management of images and other file attachments, with a Rack-based app that serves pr… | 70 | 2105 | maintenance |
| interagent/prmd Prmd is a Ruby command-line tool for working with JSON Schema descriptions of HTTP APIs. It scaffolds resource schemata, combines and verif… | 32 | 2087 | maintenance |
| remi/her Her is a Ruby ORM-like library that maps REST API resources to Ruby objects, providing an ActiveRecord-style interface for applications pow… | 23 | 2073 | maintenance |
| johno/pixyll Pixyll is a simple, beautiful Jekyll theme emphasizing content over aesthetic fluff, built mobile-first with SCSS. It is designed for light… | 23 | 2053 | maintenance |
| dblock/fui Fui is a Ruby command-line gem that finds unused Objective-C header (.h) files that are never imported anywhere in a project, indicating cl… | 63 | 2045 | maintenance |
| github/government.github.com The source for GitHub and Government, a Jekyll-based static website that curates stories of public servants and civic hackers using GitHub … | 76 | 2014 | maintenance |
| rtomayko/tilt Tilt is a generic Ruby interface to multiple template engines (ERB, Haml, Sass, Slim, and many others), providing a uniform API for compili… | 66 | 1944 | maintenance |
| karpathy/karpathy.github.io The source code for Andrej Karpathy's personal blog, built with the Jekyll static site generator. It was created as a lightweight alternati… | 63 | 1944 | maintenance |
| will/slacktyping A Ruby program that connects to Slack and keeps the 'typing...' indicator active whenever anyone else in the channel is typing. It is a nov… | 32 | 1927 | maintenance |
| hamstergem/hamster Hamster is a Ruby library providing efficient, immutable, thread-safe persistent data structures including Hash, Vector, Set, SortedSet, Li… | 32 | 1896 | maintenance |
| etsy/deployinator Deployinator is a deployment framework extracted from Etsy, packaged as a Ruby gem, used to orchestrate multi-stage code pushes across stac… | 10 | 1861 | maintenance |
| publify/publify Publify is a self-hosted, multi-user web publishing platform built on Ruby on Rails, formerly known as Typo and the oldest active Rails ope… | 66 | 1853 | maintenance |
| bokmann/font-awesome-rails A Rails engine that bundles the Font Awesome icon font and stylesheets for use with the Rails asset pipeline. It also provides view helpers… | 23 | 1850 | maintenance |
| trailblazer/roar Roar is a Ruby framework for parsing and rendering REST API documents using representers, supporting JSON, JSON-HAL, and XML formats. Its b… | 23 | 1836 | maintenance |
| DamirSvrtan/fasterer Fasterer is a Ruby command-line static analysis tool that scans your codebase and suggests performance improvements, such as replacing Arra… | 32 | 1824 | maintenance |
| Snibox Snibox is a self-hosted snippet manager for collecting and organizing code snippets, markdown, and plain text. It provides a label-oriented… | 32 | 1812 | maintenance |
| strongself/Generamba Generamba is a Ruby-based CLI code generator for Xcode projects, primarily designed to scaffold VIPER modules in Objective-C and Swift. It … | 23 | 1811 | maintenance |
| hashrocket/decent_exposure A Ruby gem providing declarative helpers (expose, expose!, exposure_config) for Rails controllers to lazily expose models and memoized attr… | 32 | 1798 | maintenance |
| twitter/twurl Twurl is a Ruby-based command-line tool that acts like curl but is tailored specifically for the Twitter API, handling OAuth authorization … | 23 | 1798 | maintenance |
| pivotal/LicenseFinder LicenseFinder is a Ruby CLI tool that scans a project's dependencies via its package manager, detects each package's license, and compares … | 23 | 1797 | maintenance |
| gimite/google-drive-ruby A Ruby library for reading and writing files and spreadsheets in Google Drive and Google Docs. It wraps the Google Drive API with a simple … | 32 | 1777 | maintenance |
| thbar/kiba Kiba is a Ruby ETL framework for defining and running data-processing pipelines with sources, transforms, and destinations via a Ruby DSL. … | 47 | 1775 | maintenance |
| basecamp/marginalia A Ruby gem that appends contextual comments (application, controller, action) to ActiveRecord SQL queries. It helps trace slow queries back… | 73 | 1769 | maintenance |
| htty/htty htty is an interactive console application for making HTTP requests to web servers, written in Ruby. It provides a tab-completed terminal s… | 32 | 1768 | maintenance |
| Octopress Octopress is a Ruby CLI toolkit that scaffolds and manages Jekyll blogs, adding commands for creating posts, pages, drafts, and deploying s… | 32 | 1747 | maintenance |
| tmm1/rbtrace rbtrace is a Ruby gem and CLI tool that lets you trace method calls inside another running Ruby process in real time, similar to strace but… | 72 | 1726 | maintenance |
| websocket-rails/websocket-rails A Ruby gem that adds plug-and-play WebSocket support to Ruby on Rails applications, with an event router that maps client events to control… | 32 | 1714 | maintenance |
| devopsgroup-io/vagrant-digitalocean A Vagrant provider plugin that manages DigitalOcean Droplets (virtual machines) directly from a Vagrantfile. It supports creating, destroyi… | 23 | 1708 | maintenance |
| 24pullrequests/24pullrequests 24 Pull Requests is a Rails web application that runs a yearly initiative encouraging developers to submit 24 pull requests to open source … | 76 | 1704 | maintenance |
| cldwalker/hirb Hirb is a Ruby mini view framework for console/irb that improves default inspect output with class-based views. It provides ascii tables, t… | 32 | 1690 | maintenance |
| igrigorik/em-websocket em-websocket is an async WebSocket server library for Ruby built on EventMachine. It supports all WebSocket protocol drafts in use (75, 76,… | 32 | 1689 | maintenance |
| streamio/streamio-ffmpeg A Ruby gem that wraps the ffmpeg command-line tool, providing a simple API for reading movie metadata and transcoding video/audio files. It… | 32 | 1685 | maintenance |
| radiant/radiant Radiant is an open source, general-purpose content management system built as a traditional Ruby on Rails application, aimed at small teams… | 61 | 1680 | maintenance |
| litaio/lita Lita is a Ruby-based chat bot framework for ChatOps, with persistent storage via Redis and a plugin system built on RubyGems and Bundler. I… | 10 | 1672 | maintenance |
| mdp/rotp A Ruby library for generating and validating one-time passwords (HOTP and TOTP) according to RFC 4226 and RFC 6238. It is compatible with G… | 43 | 1657 | maintenance |