ActsAsList vs Filtered

ActsAsList

An ActiveRecord plugin for managing lists. (by brendon)

ORM/ODM Extensions Sorting

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Filtered

Filters ActiveRecord queries in a nice way (by dubadub)

ORM/ODM Extensions ActiveRecord Rails Filtering Gem ruby-gem ruby-on-rails

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ActsAsList		Filtered
	Project
4	Mentions	-
2,013	Stars	29
-	Growth	-
4.6	Activity	0.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	about 4 years 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.

Filtered

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

ActiveRecord Import - A library for bulk insertion of data into your database using ActiveRecord.

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)

Enumerize - Enumerated attributes with I18n and ActiveRecord/Mongoid support

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

Goldiloader - Just the right amount of Rails eager loading

Priora - An Object Prioritization Utility for Ruby

ActiveValidators - Collection of ActiveModel/ActiveRecord validators

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.

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

ActiveRecordExtended - Adds additional postgres functionality to an ActiveRecord / Rails application

Apartment - Database multi-tenancy for Rack (and Rails) applications