ActsAsList vs Atomically

ActsAsList

An ActiveRecord plugin for managing lists. (by brendon)

ORM/ODM Extensions Sorting

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Atomically

An ActiveRecord extension for writing commonly useful atomic SQL statements to avoid race condition. (by khiav223577)

ORM/ODM Extensions Rails ActiveRecord orm-extension Rubygems

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ActsAsList		Atomically
	Project
4	Mentions	-
2,014	Stars	26
-	Growth	-
4.6	Activity	5.9
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	8 months ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	MIT License

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ActsAsList

Posts with mentions or reviews of ActsAsList. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Adding position columns based on category
1 project | /r/rails | 2 Dec 2022

You can use acts_as_list gem.
Best way to represent a "sequence" column in a relational database.
1 project | /r/rails | 22 Nov 2022

You can take a look at one of the longest running ruby gems, that is still part of many people's default toolbox: acts_as_list. If you don't want to use the gem, you can take a look at how they implemented the resorting.
Using acts_as_list for easy ordering of items
1 project | dev.to | 3 Jan 2022

Sources: Github
Awesome Ruby and Rails Open Source applications
1 project | /r/rails | 7 Feb 2021

I saw your sort request in the TODO. Check out the acts_as_list gem. It makes sorting lists incredibly easy.

Atomically

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We haven't tracked posts mentioning Atomically yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ActsAsList and Atomically you can also consider the following projects:

ranked-model - An acts_as_sortable/acts_as_list replacement built for Rails 4+

Ruby JSON Schema Validator - Ruby JSON Schema Validator

FindWithOrder - Provides a simple way to find records in the same order of input array. Has better performance than manually sorting. (Support both PostgreSQL and MySQL)

rails_or - Cleaner syntax for writing OR Query in Rails 5, 6. And also add #or support to Rails 3 and 4.

ActiveRecord Reputation System - An Active Record Reputation System for Rails

Priora - An Object Prioritization Utility for Ruby

Awesome Nested Set - An awesome replacement for acts_as_nested_set and better_nested_set.

DbTextSearch - A unified interface on top of ActiveRecord for case-insensitive string-in-set and prefix querying, and full-text search on SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

Unread - Handle unread records and mark them as read with Ruby on Rails

Filtered - Filters ActiveRecord queries in a nice way

Closure Tree - Easily and efficiently make your ActiveRecord models support hierarchies