Ruby MySQL

Open-source Ruby projects categorized as MySQL

Top 18 Ruby MySQL Projects

  1. Backup

    Easy full stack backup operations on UNIX-like systems.

  2. 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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  3. flipper

    🐬 Beautiful, performant feature flags for Ruby. (by flippercloud)

    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

  4. Motor Admin

    Deploy a no-code admin panel for your application in less than a minute. Stop wasting time on custom internal tools and focus on the actual product. Motor Admin allows to launch a custom admin panel for any application.

  5. SearchCop

    Search engine like fulltext query support for ActiveRecord

  6. with_advisory_lock

    Advisory locking for ActiveRecord

  7. evil-seed

    A Gem for creating partial anonymized dumps of your database using your app model relations.

    Project mention: EvilSeed: A tool for creating partial dump of database based on app models | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-19
  8. fast_page

    Blazing fast pagination for ActiveRecord with deferred joins ⚡️

  9. 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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  10. fast_count

    Quickly get a count estimation for large tables (>99% of accuracy for PostgreSQL).

  11. rom-sql

    SQL support for rom-rb

  12. departure

    Percona's pt-online-schema-change runner for ActiveRecord migrations.

  13. wt_activerecord_index_spy

    A gem to spy queries running with Active Record and report missing indexes

  14. mysql-binuuid-rails

    Store UUIDs in binary MySQL database columns. Saves storage, and increases performance.

  15. activerecord-mysql2rgeo-adapter

    ActiveRecord connection adapter for gis, based on mysql and rgeo

  16. ThinkDB

    ThinkDB is an easy-to-use SQL client that makes working with your databases simpler and more efficient. Whether you're a database pro or just getting started, ThinkDB's intuitive interface helps you explore, query, and manage your data with ease.

    Project mention: Rails for Everything | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-01

    With sqlite and docker.. rails apps are easy to share.. my last project is easy to install and use because of rails https://github.com/ThinkThinkAI/ThinkDB

    # change directory_on_your_machine_for_think_db_storage

  17. activerecord-tidb-adapter

    TiDB adapter for ActiveRecord, allows the use of TiDB as a backend for ActiveRecord and Rails apps.

  18. ghost_adapter

    Run ActiveRecord migrations through gh-ost

  19. Feedka

    Get authentic, kindful, and constructive feedback from your friends, family, and co-workers.

  20. rails-chat

    Chat app built using Ruby on Rails that does the crud operations in background tasks using Redis and Sidekiq and supports a full-text search using elastic search.

  21. SaaSHub

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

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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 MySQL projects in Ruby? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 Backup 4,855
2 flipper 3,828
3 Motor Admin 2,116
4 SearchCop 831
5 with_advisory_lock 657
6 evil-seed 538
7 fast_page 316
8 fast_count 259
9 rom-sql 218
10 departure 148
11 wt_activerecord_index_spy 77
12 mysql-binuuid-rails 58
13 activerecord-mysql2rgeo-adapter 31
14 ThinkDB 27
15 activerecord-tidb-adapter 24
16 ghost_adapter 20
17 Feedka 18
18 rails-chat 4

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