ledermann/rails-settings

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1028 stars · 142 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Ruby gem for Rails that manages per-record settings for ActiveRecord models, storing them as serialized hashes in a dedicated database table. It supports namespaced settings, defaults, custom validation classes, and query scopes.

Use cases

• store per-user preferences like theme or dashboard layout in Rails
• add namespaced key-value settings to ActiveRecord models
• manage configurable defaults for model records
• persist user settings in a database table with Rails
• validate model settings with custom rules

When to choose

• you need per-record, namespaced settings with defaults in a Rails app
• you want settings stored in the database rather than YAML files
• you need custom validations on setting values

When to avoid

• you need global application-wide configuration only
• you are not using Rails or ActiveRecord
• you need high-volume key-value storage with fast lookups

Facets

library · maturity active

configuration-management serialization orm web-development developer-tools databases ruby jvm rails activerecord rubygems settings-management namespaced-settings

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