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Top 23 Ruby ActiveRecord Projects
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Project mention: Unlocking Opportunities: How to Thrive as a Ruby Engineer in Today's Tech Landscape | dev.to | 2025-05-07
Ruby on Rails open source projects. Contribute and learn at the same time.
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InfluxDB
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Project mention: Ask HN: How do you "replay" a costly user mistake in your internal software? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-09
With Ruby on Rails one can use https://github.com/paper-trail-gem/paper_trail which will keep a record of every database change. Similarly one could record every database query on the database server.
Looking at clicks sounds like recording the screen of the user. Too many privacy issues IMHO even for an internal tool.
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AASM
AASM - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, ActiveRecord, Mongoid, NoBrainer, Dynamoid)
When they get to what their implementation is, I’m not even sure what it is. Like how is the following different from a library, like acts-as_state_machine (https://github.com/aasm/aasm). Are they auto running the retries - in a background job which they handle (like “serverless” background job)?
“Implementing orchestration in a library connected to a database means you can eliminate the orchestration tier, pushing its functionality into the application tier (the library instruments your program) and the database tier (your workflow state is persisted to Postgres).“
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1) First, let's install the Scenic gem. It's not required, but it gives us nice ways to create and manage views.
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Stream
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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Audited
Audited (formerly acts_as_audited) is an ORM extension that logs all changes to your Rails models.
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IdentityCache
IdentityCache is a blob level caching solution to plug into Active Record. Don't #find, #fetch!
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validates_timeliness
Date and time validation plugin for ActiveModel and Rails. Supports multiple ORMs and allows custom date/time formats.
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pg_search
pg_search builds ActiveRecord named scopes that take advantage of PostgreSQL’s full text search
Facets are possible in Postgres but it looks complex:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200815141031/https://roamanaly...
pg_search [0] not to be confused with the ruby gem of the same name [1]:
[0] - https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb/tree/dev/pg_search#over...
[1] - https://github.com/Casecommons/pg_search
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SaaSHub
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source ActiveRecord projects in Ruby? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby on Rails | 57,125 |
| 2 | PaperTrail | 6,898 |
| 3 | ransack | 5,799 |
| 4 | AASM | 5,101 |
| 5 | Annotate | 4,480 |
| 6 | strong_migrations | 4,238 |
| 7 | Scenic | 3,554 |
| 8 | Audited | 3,449 |
| 9 | Elasticsearch Rails | 3,077 |
| 10 | PublicActivity | 2,986 |
| 11 | counter_culture | 2,063 |
| 12 | IdentityCache | 1,936 |
| 13 | Closure Tree | 1,891 |
| 14 | active_record_doctor | 1,865 |
| 15 | marginalia | 1,757 |
| 16 | Enumerize | 1,751 |
| 17 | Logidze | 1,647 |
| 18 | Goldiloader | 1,637 |
| 19 | validates_timeliness | 1,609 |
| 20 | lockbox | 1,521 |
| 21 | pg_search | 1,478 |
| 22 | kredis | 1,386 |
| 23 | ActiveRecordExtended | 1,381 |
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