Rails application boilerplate for fast MVP development

1. Capistrano

   1 12 12,775 5.4 Ruby

   A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.

   

   capistrano with plugins for deployment

2. Judoscale

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   Save 47% on cloud hosting with autoscaling that just works. Judoscale integrates with Rails, Sidekiq, Solid Queue, and more to make autoscaling easy and reliable. Save big, and say goodbye to request timeouts and backed-up job queues.

   

3. jstz

   2 1 176 0.0 JavaScript

   🌐Timezone detection for JavaScript

   

   timezone detection with jstz

4. view_component

   3 79 3,399 9.0 Ruby

   A framework for building reusable, testable & encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails.

   

   view_component as a replacement for partials

5. purgecss

   4 55 7,912 8.2 TypeScript

   Remove unused CSS

   

   purge.css to cleanup stylesheets

6. Sidekiq

   5 98 13,295 9.5 Ruby

   Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby

   

   Sidekiq for background jobs

7. Visual Studio Code

   6 3,122 170,491 10.0 TypeScript

   Visual Studio Code

   

   VSCode configuration files

8. Devise

   7 101 24,177 6.2 Ruby

   Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.

   

   authentication with devise and devise-pwned_password + google auth

9. CodeRabbit

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   CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

   

10. devise-pwned_password

    8 1 157 4.7 Ruby

    Devise extension that checks user passwords against the PwnedPasswords dataset

    

    authentication with devise and devise-pwned_password + google auth

11. pretender

    9 1 1,359 5.4 Ruby

    Log in as another user in Rails (by ankane)

    

    pretender

12. Pundit

    10 28 8,382 8.3 Ruby

    Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes

    

    authorization with pundit

13. rolify

    11 2 3,172 0.0 Ruby

    Role management library with resource scoping

    

    role management with rolify

14. MetaTags

    12 4 2,762 8.1 Ruby

    Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Ruby on Rails applications.

    

    SEO tools - meta-tags, sitemap_generator and friendly_id

15. FriendlyId

    13 7 6,187 6.3 Ruby

    FriendlyId is the “Swiss Army bulldozer” of slugging and permalink plugins for ActiveRecord. It allows you to create pretty URL’s and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids for ActiveRecord models.

    

    SEO tools - meta-tags, sitemap_generator and friendly_id

16. i18n-tasks

    14 6 2,103 7.1 Ruby

    Manage translation and localization with static analysis, for Ruby i18n

    

    I18n tools - rails-i18n and i18n-tasks

17. rubocop

    15 41 12,731 9.9 Ruby

    A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide.

    

18. better-html

    16 1 451 4.5 Ruby

    Better HTML for Rails

    

    better_html and erb-lint for erb linting

19. erb_lint

    17 6 710 7.2 Ruby

    Lint your ERB or HTML files

    

    better_html and erb-lint for erb linting

20. bullet

    18 30 7,184 8.0 Ruby

    help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading

    

    bullet to prevent N+1 problems

21. Brakeman

    19 19 7,104 8.4 Ruby

    A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications

    

    brakeman and bundler-audit as security scanners

22. bundler-audit

    20 1 2,347 8.3 Ruby

    Discontinued Patch-level verification for Bundler [Moved to: https://github.com/rubysec/bundler-audit] (by postmodern)

    

    brakeman and bundler-audit as security scanners

23. Fasterer

    21 1 1,813 4.1 Ruby

    :zap: Don't make your Rubies go fast. Make them go fasterer ™. :zap:

    

    fasterer for performance optimization

24. pry-rails

    22 3 1,354 4.6 Ruby

    Rails >= 3 pry initializer

    

    pry-rails and amazing_print for better rails console

25. Amazing Print

    23 5 793 7.5 Ruby

    Pretty print your Ruby objects with style -- in full color and with proper indentation

    

    pry-rails and amazing_print for better rails console

26. ActiveInteraction

    24 6 2,105 6.7 Ruby

    :briefcase: Manage application specific business logic.

    

    active_interaction to make controllers thin

27. flipper

    25 12 3,800 8.6 Ruby

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

    

    flipper with Flipper UI to enable flag management

28. Ahoy

    26 18 4,310 7.3 Ruby

    Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails

    

    ahoy, ahoy_email and blazer for business intelligence

29. Ahoy Email

    27 1 1,138 7.2 Ruby

    First-party email analytics for Rails

    

    ahoy, ahoy_email and blazer for business intelligence

30. Blazer

    28 17 4,650 8.9 Ruby

    Business intelligence made simple

    

    ahoy, ahoy_email and blazer for business intelligence

31. noticed

    29 9 2,521 8.5 Ruby

    Notifications for Ruby on Rails applications

    

    noticed for notifications

32. Annotate

    30 9 4,465 1.4 Ruby

    Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info

    

    annotate for annotations

33. Lol DBA

    31 2 1,584 0.0 Ruby

    lol_dba is a small package of rake tasks that scan your application models and displays a list of columns that probably should be indexed. Also, it can generate .sql migration scripts.

    

    lol_dba for indexing

34. lockbox

    32 13 1,494 7.9 Ruby

    Modern encryption for Ruby and Rails

    

    lockbox and blind_index for email fields encryption

35. blind_index

    33 7 675 7.3 Ruby

    Securely search encrypted database fields

    

    lockbox and blind_index for email fields encryption

36. Rack::Attack

    34 13 5,612 5.8 Ruby

    Rack middleware for blocking & throttling

    

    rack-attack to prevent bruteforce and DDoS attacks

37. authtrail

    35 3 553 5.9 Ruby

    Track Devise login activity

    

    authrail to track login attempts

38. production_rails

    36 2 2,253 0.0

    Best practices for running Rails in production

    

    update with rails production best practices, security best practices and rails-security-checklist

39. secure_rails

    37 4 1,034 0.0

    Rails security best practices

    

    update with rails production best practices, security best practices and rails-security-checklist

40. rails-security-checklist

    38 1 1,364 1.8 Ruby

    :key: Community-driven Rails Security Checklist (see our GitHub Issues for the newest checks that aren't yet in the README)

    

    update with rails production best practices, security best practices and rails-security-checklist

41. terraforming-rails

    39 1 734 2.4 Ruby

    Terraforming legacy Rails applications guides and tools

    

    add tools from evil martians tollbox

42. dawnscanner

    40 2 738 4.6 Ruby

    Dawn is a static analysis security scanner for ruby written web applications. It supports Sinatra, Padrino and Ruby on Rails frameworks.

    

    test and add dawnscanner

43. rails_best_practices

    41 1 4,171 0.0 Ruby

    a code metric tool for rails projects

    

    add rails_best_practices

44. SecureHeaders

    42 2 3,169 5.8 Ruby

    Manages application of security headers with many safe defaults

    

    add secure_headers

45. ssrf_filter

    43 1 87 4.7 Ruby

    A ruby gem for defending against Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks

    

    add ssrf_filter

46. devise-security

    44 4 614 7.4 Ruby

    A security extension for devise, meeting industry-standard security demands for web applications.

    

    add devise-security

47. mailkick

    45 1 937 5.9 Ruby

    Email subscriptions for Rails

    

    add mailkick

48. Discard

    46 5 2,236 5.2 Ruby

    🃏🗑 Soft deletes for ActiveRecord done right

    

    add discard

49. invisible_captcha

    47 2 1,198 3.9 Ruby

    🍯 Unobtrusive and flexible spam protection for Rails apps

    

    add invisible_captcha

50. Lograge

    48 7 3,499 3.5 Ruby

    An attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything.

    

    add lograge

51. hypershield

    49 2 308 5.9 Ruby

    Shield sensitive data in Postgres and MySQL

    

    add hypershield

52. hair_trigger

    50 2 785 5.9 Ruby

    Happy database triggers for ActiveRecord

    

    add hairtrigger

53. active_record_union

    51 2 467 3.9 Ruby

    UNIONs in ActiveRecord! Adds proper union and union_all methods to ActiveRecord::Relation.

    

    add active_record_union

54. Scenic

    52 10 3,501 5.8 Ruby

    Versioned database views for Rails

    

    add scenic

55. IdentityCache

    53 1 1,929 5.9 Ruby

    IdentityCache is a blob level caching solution to plug into Active Record. Don't #find, #fetch!

    

    add identity_cache

56. rails-settings-cached

    54 1 1,098 5.8 Ruby

    Global settings for your Rails application.

    

    move to rails-settings-cached

57. turnip

    55 1 976 3.9 Ruby

    Gherkin extension for RSpec (by jnicklas)

    

    move to turnip from cucumber

58. searchjoy

    56 1 647 7.1 Ruby

    Search analytics made easy

    

    add searchjoy

59. DatabaseConsistency

    57 8 1,110 7.5 Ruby

    The tool to avoid various issues due to inconsistencies and inefficiencies between a database schema and application models.

    

    add database_consistency

60. DatabaseValidations

    58 3 544 0.0 Ruby

    Database validations for ActiveRecord

    

    add database_validations

61. Traceroute

    59 1 901 0.0 Ruby

    A Rake task gem that helps you find the unused routes and controller actions for your Rails 3+ app

    

    add traceroute

62. isolator

    60 5 935 4.8 Ruby

    Detect non-atomic interactions within DB transactions

    

    add isolator

63. lefthook

    61 17 5,790 9.4 Go

    Fast and powerful Git hooks manager for any type of projects.

    

    add lefthook

64. Pronto

    62 4 2,642 6.0 Ruby

    Quick automated code review of your changes

    

    add pronto

65. kickstart

    63 1 71 0.0 Makefile

    Ruby on Rails application templates (by alec-c4)

    

    You can check it here - https://github.com/alec-c4/kickstart

66. InfluxDB

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    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

    

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