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Top 23 Ruby API Projects
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Project mention: Spree: Open-source eCommerce platform Built using Ruby on Rails | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-27
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Hanami remains a bright spark as an alternative growing Ruby app framework to Rails. The project is under active development, I’ve met the core dev and they are lovely and much more humble than DHH and the project aims to stick much closer to the Ruby ways of doing things as opposed to the rails way.
Sure the project just can’t be as mature as Rails but it deserves a look and we need to get behind projects like this if we do indeed want to see Rails alternatives flourish and grow.
https://hanamirb.org/
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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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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 | 15,459 |
| 2 | Grape | 9,985 |
| 3 | Hanami | 6,371 |
| 4 | flipper | 3,950 |
| 5 | Devise Token Auth | 3,568 |
| 6 | tesla-api | 2,057 |
| 7 | authentication-zero | 1,872 |
| 8 | simple_token_authentication | 1,503 |
| 9 | rspec_api_documentation | 1,452 |
| 10 | grape-swagger | 1,099 |
| 11 | Spyke | 904 |
| 12 | reality | 818 |
| 13 | grape-entity | 731 |
| 14 | Version Cake | 652 |
| 15 | rack-app | 410 |
| 16 | api_on_rails | 384 |
| 17 | diplomat | 372 |
| 18 | hanami-api | 365 |
| 19 | Flexirest | 336 |
| 20 | api_guard | 279 |
| 21 | jsonapi.rb | 275 |
| 22 | hanami-action | 243 |
| 23 | api_struct | 235 |
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