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Top 23 Ruby Jekyll Projects
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Project mention: I Tried 15 of the Best Documentation Tools — Here’s What Actually Works in 2025 | dev.to | 2025-07-01
Jekyll is one of the oldest and most established static site generators. It’s tightly integrated with GitHub Pages, making deployment super easy.
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choosealicense.com
A site to provide non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project
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pages-gem
A simple Ruby Gem to bootstrap dependencies for setting up and maintaining a local Jekyll environment in sync with GitHub Pages
Doesn't GitHub already support blogging/blogs out of the box? It also has a Web Editor / IDE (VSCode) built-in. Hit the `.` on any of your GitHub pages/code/files.
https://pages.github.com
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Git for Static Sites - Interestingly Kris Jenkins blogged about a similar approach back in 2016. I actually came to these ideas, independently of Kris' post, through a Ruby project called Octopress.
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jekyll-seo-tag
A Jekyll plugin to add metadata tags for search engines and social networks to better index and display your site's content.
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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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Jekyll is a simplistic framework for static websites that originally sparked the static website and JAMstack movements. While there are many similar frameworks with more features, Jekyll remains one of the simplest on the market. It has been somewhat forgotten and hasn't evolved much lately, to the point where some people decided to take matters into their own hands and fork this framework into something called Bridgetown.
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Project mention: When Trash-Talk Becomes Abuse: Examining Problematic Speech/Behavior in Wow | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-07
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jekyll-auth
A simple way to use GitHub OAuth to serve a protected Jekyll site to your GitHub organization
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jekyll-redirect-from
:twisted_rightwards_arrows: Seamlessly specify multiple redirections URLs for your pages and posts.
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Project mention: Show HN: I built PixSpeed to optimize website images for free | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-01
If you're using Jekyll, Jekyll Picture Tag (https://github.com/rbuchberger/jekyll_picture_tag) does the same thing. I use that in my pipeline for my blog, and I agree, it's very nice to just not have to worry about stuffing a 5MB image down someone's tiny cell phone connection.
Though I'm not sure many browsers actually use anything other than the largest image option...
I've debated encoding to AVIF as well, but that's such a painfully long process on a blog with somewhere around 8700 images.
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jekyll-paginate-v2
Pagination Generator for Jekyll 3 (enhanced replacement for the old built-in jekyll-paginate gem) ⛺
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github-metadata
Jekyll plugin to propagate the `site.github` namespace and set default values for use with GitHub Pages.
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jekyll-twitter-plugin
A Liquid tag plugin for the Jekyll blogging engine that embeds Tweets, Timelines and more from Twitter API
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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 Jekyll projects in Ruby? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jekyll | 50,333 |
| 2 | Middleman | 7,100 |
| 3 | choosealicense.com | 3,878 |
| 4 | remote-in-japan | 1,871 |
| 5 | pages-gem | 1,855 |
| 6 | Octopress | 1,753 |
| 7 | jekyll-seo-tag | 1,686 |
| 8 | Bridgetown | 1,245 |
| 9 | jekyll-assets | 1,123 |
| 10 | www.ruby-lang.org | 897 |
| 11 | jekyll-auth | 845 |
| 12 | jekyll-redirect-from | 800 |
| 13 | jekyll_picture_tag | 630 |
| 14 | jekyll-paginate-v2 | 531 |
| 15 | jekyll-toc | 358 |
| 16 | github-metadata | 296 |
| 17 | jekyll-gist | 270 |
| 18 | jekyll-minifier | 252 |
| 19 | jekyll-twitter-plugin | 235 |
| 20 | Photish | 149 |
| 21 | jekyll-org | 134 |
| 22 | webgen | 116 |
| 23 | jekyll-paginate | 112 |
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