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  1. railstart-niceadmin

    Discontinued Backend admin dashboard management system based on Bootstrap 5 and NiceAdmin and Rails 7

    ![License](http://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-green.svg?style=flat)

  2. SaaSHub

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  3. libvips

    A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

    libvips v8.6+ or ImageMagick for image analysis and transformations

  4. TinyMCE

    The world's #1 JavaScript library for rich text editing. Available for React, Vue and Angular

    Text Editor: trix and TinyMCE

  5. Rails Erd

    Generate Entity-Relationship Diagrams for Rails applications

    Graphviz

  6. ruby

    The Ruby Programming Language

    Ruby 3.0.0

  7. Pagy

    🏆 The Best Pagination Ruby Gem 🥇

    Pagination

  8. PostgreSQL

    Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch

    PostgreSQL

  9. trix

    A rich text editor for everyday writing

    Text Editor: trix and TinyMCE

  10. Chart.js

    Simple HTML5 Charts using the <canvas> tag

    Charts with chartjs and apexcharts and echarts

  11. loaf

    Manages and displays breadcrumb trails in Rails app - lean & mean. (by piotrmurach)

    Breadcrumbs

  12. simple-datatables

    DataTables but in TypeScript transpiled to Vanilla JS

    Integrate Simple-DataTables

  13. activestorage-aliyun

    Wraps the Aliyun OSS as an Active Storage service.

    aliyun, qiniu, tencent cloud storage

  14. letter_avatar

    Ruby gem for creating letter avatar from user's name (or any other string :-) ).

    letter_avatar

  15. Sidekiq

    Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby

    sidekiq

  16. turbo-rails

    Use Turbo in your Ruby on Rails app

    turbo-rails

  17. jsbundling-rails

    Bundle and transpile JavaScript in Rails with esbuild, rollup.js, bun, or Webpack.

    jsbundling-rails

  18. turbo

    The speed of a single-page web application without having to write any JavaScript (by hotwired)

    Based on Rails 7 and hotwired turbo and stimulus

  19. Browser

    Do some browser detection with Ruby. Includes ActionController integration.

    browser

  20. Tailwind CSS

    A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

    Integrate TailwindCSS for frontend

  21. rack-mini-profiler

    Profiler for your development and production Ruby rack apps.

    rack-mini-profiler

  22. bullet

    help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading

    bullet

  23. Stimulus

    A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have

    Based on Rails 7 and hotwired turbo and stimulus

  24. jsonb_accessor

    Adds typed jsonb backed fields to your ActiveRecord models.

    jsonb_accessor

  25. ActiveRecordExtended

    Adds additional postgres functionality to an ActiveRecord / Rails application

    active_record_extended

  26. RVM

    Ruby enVironment Manager (RVM)

    Or install rvm and then install Rails manually.

  27. Blazer

    Business intelligence made simple

    blazer

  28. HTTP

    HTTP (The Gem! a.k.a. http.rb) - a fast Ruby HTTP client with a chainable API, streaming support, and timeouts

    http

  29. Rails Performance

    Monitor performance of you Rails applications (self-hosted and free)

    rails_performance

  30. Ruby on Rails

    Ruby on Rails

    Backend admin dashboard management system based on Bootstrap 5 and NiceAdmin and Rails 7

  31. active_storage_validations

    Do it like => validates :photos, attached: true, content_type: ['image/png', 'image/jpg', 'image/jpeg'], size: { less_than: 500.kilobytes }, limit: { min: 1, max: 3 }, aspect_ratio: :landscape, dimension: { width: { in: 800..1600 }

    active_storage_validations

  32. RemixIcon

    Open source neutral style icon system

    Icons: Bootstrap Icons and RemixIcons and Boxicons and FontAwesome

  33. Sidekiq-Cron

    Scheduler / Cron for Sidekiq jobs

    sidekiq-cron

  34. Redis

    Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.

    Redis

  35. china_sms

    中国各个短信平台 Ruby 接口,现支持云片网、推立方、亿美软通、短信宝、畅友网络

    china_sms

  36. mupdf

    mirrored from git://git.ghostscript.com/mupdf.git (by ccxvii)

    poppler or muPDF for PDF previews

  37. Accept Language

    Ruby parser for Accept-Language request HTTP header 🌐

    accept_language

  38. icons

    Official open source SVG icon library for Bootstrap.

    Icons: Bootstrap Icons and RemixIcons and Boxicons and FontAwesome

  39. rails-i18n

    Repository for collecting Locale data for Ruby on Rails I18n as well as other interesting, Rails related I18n stuff

    rails-i18n

  40. cable_ready

    Use simple commands on the server to control client browsers in real-time

    cable_ready

  41. Bootstrap

    The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

    NiceAdmin is open source template based on Bootstrap 5, you can download it from network, I integrate it with Rails 7.

  42. stimulus_reflex

    Build reactive applications with the Rails tooling you already know and love.

    stimulus_reflex

  43. view_component

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

    view_component

  44. view_component_reflex

    Call component methods right from your markup

    view_component_reflex

  45. Font-Awesome

    The iconic SVG, font, and CSS toolkit

    Icons: Bootstrap Icons and RemixIcons and Boxicons and FontAwesome

  46. image_optim

    Optimize images using multiple utilities

    for image_optim:

  47. FFmpeg

    Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

    ffmpeg v3.4+ for video previews and ffprobe for video/audio analysis

  48. apexcharts.js

    📊 Interactive JavaScript Charts built on SVG

    Charts with chartjs and apexcharts and echarts

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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