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Top 23 Ruby Security Projects
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Project mention: GSoC 2026 Predictions: 30 NEW AI/ML/Security Organizations You Should Start Contributing to NOW! | dev.to | 2026-02-06
Framework: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework ⭐ 34k+
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wpscan
WPScan WordPress security scanner. Written for security professionals and blog maintainers to test the security of their WordPress websites. Contact us via contact@wpscan.com
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Project mention: How to integrate Brakeman Security Scanner with GitHub Code Scanning | dev.to | 2025-12-22
The Rails security scanner Brakeman supports the SARIF format, but I couldn't find any documentation about how to join all the pieces together and see Brakeman results in GitHub Code Scanning. This blog post is my answer to the question of how you do it.
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Ruby on Rails 7.2 introduces a powerful, built-in rate limiting mechanism directly into Action Controller. This eliminates the need for third-party gems like rack-attack for many common use cases, offering a first-party, integrated solution for protecting your application from abuse.
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WebHackersWeapons
⚔️ Web Hacker's Weapons / A collection of cool tools used by Web hackers. Happy hacking , Happy bug-hunting
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PasswordPusher
🔐 Securely share sensitive information with automatic expiration & deletion after a set number of views or duration. Track who, what and when with full audit logs.
Project mention: Password Pusher: Share secrets securely with self-deleting links and audit logs | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-07 -
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OAuth2
🔐 oauth2 - A Ruby wrapper for the OAuth 2.0, & 2.1 Authorization Frameworks, including OpenID Connect (OIDC) (by ruby-oauth)
oauth2 v2.0.18 was released... almost five months ago. And I never got around to posting about it. Being unemployed is a LOT of work...
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rails-security-checklist
:key: Community-driven Rails Security Checklist (see our GitHub Issues for the newest checks that aren't yet in the README)
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best-practices-badge
🏆Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Best Practices Badge (formerly Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) Best Practices Badge)
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MobileHackersWeapons
Mobile Hacker's Weapons / A collection of cool tools used by Mobile hackers. Happy hacking , Happy bug-hunting
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Hashids
A small Ruby gem to generate YouTube-like hashes from one or many numbers. Use hashids when you do not want to expose your database ids to the user.
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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).
Ruby Security discussion
Ruby Security related posts
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Ronin – A Security Toolkit
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WPScan: WordPress Security Scanner
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How to integrate Brakeman Security Scanner with GitHub Code Scanning
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安卓深度链接安全研究基于Metasploit的QR码攻击模块开发实践
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Password Pusher: Share secrets securely with self-deleting links and audit logs
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Rails Built-in Rate Limiting: A Deep Dive
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Built-in Rate Limiting in Rails 8
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Security projects in Ruby? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Metasploit | 38,332 |
| 2 | wpscan | 9,622 |
| 3 | Brakeman | 7,246 |
| 4 | WhatWeb | 6,634 |
| 5 | Rack::Attack | 5,742 |
| 6 | WebHackersWeapons | 4,626 |
| 7 | SecureHeaders | 3,226 |
| 8 | inspec | 3,072 |
| 9 | PasswordPusher | 3,043 |
| 10 | bundler-audit | 2,755 |
| 11 | OAuth2 | 2,181 |
| 12 | authentication-zero | 1,872 |
| 13 | cocoapods-keys | 1,550 |
| 14 | rails-security-checklist | 1,365 |
| 15 | best-practices-badge | 1,340 |
| 16 | username-anarchy | 1,339 |
| 17 | cfn_nag | 1,307 |
| 18 | invisible_captcha | 1,242 |
| 19 | MobileHackersWeapons | 1,239 |
| 20 | RbNaCl | 985 |
| 21 | Hashids | 985 |
| 22 | haiti | 983 |
| 23 | linux-baseline | 874 |
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