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Top 20 Ruby Sinatra Projects
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Project mention: Show HN: Stirfry, a small Ruby webframe work mixing it up | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-09-07
Is it fun? To me it is!
Shout out to https://github.com/patbenatar/rbexy that I used as a starting point to write a RBX parser.
Shout out to https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra for being my fave and basically the template for this project.
Shout out to Rack as well because it's still a great/fun interface after all of these years!
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AppSignal
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RailsConfig
Easiest way to add multi-environment yaml settings to Rails, Sinatra, Padrino and other Ruby projects. (by rubyconfig)
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Project mention: 7 Game-Changing Free Error Tracking Tools That Will Save Your Sanity in 2026 | dev.to | 2026-03-19
Airbrake positions itself as a lightweight alternative that doesn't compromise on features. With 5,000 errors per month in their free tier, they offer competitive limits while maintaining fast performance and minimal impact on your application.
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Simple Navigation
A ruby gem for creating navigations (with multiple levels) for your Rails, Sinatra or Padrino applications. Render your navigation as html list, link list or breadcrumbs.
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SaaSHub
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dawnscanner
Dawn is a static analysis security scanner for ruby written web applications. It supports Sinatra, Padrino and Ruby on Rails frameworks.
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_low_type_ is early days still, but I think this approach is clearly the future of ruby typing. If this gets baked into the language for full “compile” time support and minimal performance impact, it will be amazing: https://github.com/low-rb/low_type
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mailanes
Smart E-mail Delivery System (helps me manage subscribers to my blog and send them monthly newsletters)
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ip21-ruby
IP21 Database connection for Ruby. With this gem you will be able to connect to IP21 and execute queries against the database using SQL statements.
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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 Sinatra projects in Ruby? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sinatra | 12,454 |
| 2 | will_paginate | 5,680 |
| 3 | Pagy | 4,993 |
| 4 | RailsConfig | 2,169 |
| 5 | recaptcha | 2,006 |
| 6 | Airbrake | 984 |
| 7 | Simple Navigation | 886 |
| 8 | dawnscanner | 748 |
| 9 | sinatra-activerecord | 734 |
| 10 | ginatra | 523 |
| 11 | lowtype | 348 |
| 12 | Lite Cable | 303 |
| 13 | Bugsnag | 254 |
| 14 | mailanes | 39 |
| 15 | semaphore-demo-ruby-kubernetes | 20 |
| 16 | shaf | 19 |
| 17 | sidekiq | 7 |
| 18 | more | 4 |
| 19 | multihaftetikettierapparat | 4 |
| 20 | ip21-ruby | 0 |
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