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Top 23 Ruby API Projects
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Project mention: 15 Open-Source Projects to Replace Popular SaaS Tools & Apps 👨💻🔥 | dev.to | 2025-01-13
👩💻 GitHub link | ⭐ 12.9K stars | 💻 Website link
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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Project mention: Where to learn how to build an A/B testing tool? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-28
Read an open source one. Here’s a Ruby one called Flipper.
https://github.com/flippercloud/flipper
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Devise Token Auth
Token based authentication for Rails JSON APIs. Designed to work with jToker and ng-token-auth.
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tesla-api
🚘 A Ruby gem and unofficial documentation of Tesla's JSON API for the Model S, 3, X, and Y.
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Some simpler alternatives to consider:
Rails 8 comes with a basic auth generator: https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-8-introduces-a-basic-au...
There's also https://github.com/lazaronixon/authentication-zero that goes beyond that.
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Sevalla
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simple_token_authentication
Simple (and safe*) token authentication for Rails apps or API with Devise.
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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 API projects in Ruby? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spree Commerce | 14,853 |
| 2 | Grape | 9,959 |
| 3 | Hanami | 6,287 |
| 4 | flipper | 3,843 |
| 5 | Devise Token Auth | 3,573 |
| 6 | tesla-api | 2,044 |
| 7 | authentication-zero | 1,809 |
| 8 | DuckRails | 1,718 |
| 9 | simple_token_authentication | 1,511 |
| 10 | rspec_api_documentation | 1,458 |
| 11 | grape-swagger | 1,097 |
| 12 | Spyke | 906 |
| 13 | reality | 814 |
| 14 | grape-entity | 728 |
| 15 | Version Cake | 657 |
| 16 | rack-app | 411 |
| 17 | api_on_rails | 379 |
| 18 | diplomat | 371 |
| 19 | api | 357 |
| 20 | Flexirest | 333 |
| 21 | jsonapi.rb | 275 |
| 22 | api_guard | 274 |
| 23 | controller | 243 |
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