Ruby Gems

Open-source Ruby projects categorized as Gems

Top 11 Ruby Gem Projects

  1. RubyGems

    The Ruby community's gem hosting service.

    Project mention: ⚙️ Building a better Ruby ORM for time series and analytics | dev.to | 2025-02-06

    The following code snippet highlights the real-life use case that inspired me to build a continuous aggregates macro for better time-series data aggregations. It’s part of a RubyGems contribution I made, and it’s still a work in progress. However, it’s worth validating how this idea can reduce the Ruby code you’ll have to maintain.

  2. 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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  3. Gem in a Box

    Really simple rubygem hosting

  4. gemstash

    A RubyGems.org cache and private gem server

  5. blockchain

    blockchain (crypto) tools, libraries & scripts in ruby (by rubycocos)

  6. sport.db

    sport.db - open sports database (e.g. football.db, formula1.db etc.) command line tool and libraries

  7. gemdiff

    Find source repositories for ruby gems. Open, compare, and update outdated gem versions

  8. cocos

    cocos (code commons) - auto-include quick-starter prelude & prolog

  9. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  10. dsu

    dsu is little gem that helps manage your Agile DSU (Daily Stand Up) participation. How? by providing a simple command line interface (CLI) which allows you to create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) noteworthy activities that you performed during your day. During your DSU, you can then easily recall and share these these activities with your team.

  11. git

    git (and github) & monorepo / mono source tree command line tools, libraries & scripts (by rubycocos)

  12. more

    more tools, libraries & scripts

  13. simple-icons-rails

    A gem to easily use SimpleIcons.org in your Rails application

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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    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2024
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    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Mar 2024
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  • Show HN: Try dsu gem as featured in RubyWeekly

    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 2024
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Gem projects in Ruby? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 RubyGems 2,376
2 Gem in a Box 1,513
3 gemstash 771
4 blockchain 230
5 sport.db 229
6 gemdiff 123
7 cocos 53
8 dsu 48
9 git 19
10 more 4
11 simple-icons-rails 3

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