Top 23 ActiveRecord Open-Source Projects

• Ruby on Rails

  110 53,968 9.9 Ruby

  Ruby on Rails

  

  Project mention: Jets: The Ruby Serverless Framework | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-07

  I think that you're conflating correlation with causation. I think it's more plausible to assume it was the early numbers that are skewed and non-representative.

  The fact that GitHub itself was is a killer app of the Ruby on Rails, and that the Rails project itself changed to being hosted on GitHub somewhat very early on it's history [1] had a disproportionate effect on the early community that gathered there.

  Now GitHub attracts a much more diverse portfolio of projects, so the numbers you see there are less statistically biased towards early Ruby on Rails adopters.

  [1] Commit history on the main branch of rails/rails via github goes as far as Apr 10, 2008 https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/c67e985994362290308073...

• PaperTrail

  5 6,650 0.0 Ruby

  Track changes to your rails models

  

  Project mention: historical data and "point in time" data modeling techniques, advice. | /r/dataengineering | 2023-06-28

  if the source (web) application makes their own audit tables. ex: our ruby on rails application uses the paper-trail gem

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• ransack

  0 5,518 0.0 Ruby

  Object-based searching.

  

• AASM

  0 4,887 0.0 Ruby

  AASM - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, ActiveRecord, Mongoid, NoBrainer, Dynamoid)

  

• Annotate

  4 4,285 0.0 Ruby

  Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info

  Project mention: I spent the past 3 months working on a fork of the Annotate models gem | /r/rails | 2023-05-17

  I believe Ctran is aware of this based on his response in this issue https://github.com/ctran/annotate_models/issues/913

• strong_migrations

  2 3,725 0.0 Ruby

  Catch unsafe migrations in development

  Project mention: Migration Best Practice | /r/PostgreSQL | 2023-12-08

  Frameworks will have a preferred solution. We use Rails with the strong_migrations gem which is great: https://github.com/ankane/strong_migrations

• Scenic

  4 3,286 3.2 Ruby

  Versioned database views for Rails

  

  Project mention: Database Views & Rails Active Record: defining new Model classes out of views | dev.to | 2023-01-23

  To model our Deliverable class, we will need a view. We will use the popular scenic gem, which provides some useful generators for creating views with their respective migrations, and utilities to handle views versioning.

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• Audited

  3 3,253 0.0 Ruby

  Audited (formerly acts_as_audited) is an ORM extension that logs all changes to your Rails models.

  

  Project mention: Best rails tools to automatically handle logging of things like all a user's actions, or changes to a record in a module - primarily for audit purposes. | /r/ruby | 2023-03-09

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• Elasticsearch Rails

  0 3,030 0.0 Ruby

  Elasticsearch integrations for ActiveModel/Record and Ruby on Rails

  

• PublicActivity

  0 2,911 0.0 Ruby

  Easy activity tracking for models - similar to Github's Public Activity

  

• SqlKata Query Builder

  2 2,872 0.0 C#

  SQL query builder, written in c#, helps you build complex queries easily, supports SqlServer, MySql, PostgreSql, Oracle, Sqlite and Firebird

  

  Project mention: EF Core or Dapper | /r/dotnet | 2023-03-10

  SqlKata is your friend.

• IdentityCache

  0 1,885 0.0 Ruby

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

  

• counter_culture

  0 1,827 6.9 Ruby

  Turbo-charged counter caches for your Rails app.

• Closure Tree

  0 1,797 4.4 Ruby

  Easily and efficiently make your ActiveRecord models support hierarchies

  

• Enumerize

  0 1,704 0.0 Ruby

  Enumerated attributes with I18n and ActiveRecord/Mongoid support

  

• marginalia

  0 1,693 0.0 Ruby

  Attach comments to ActiveRecord's SQL queries

  

• validates_timeliness

  0 1,571 0.0 Ruby

  Date and time validation plugin for ActiveModel and Rails. Supports multiple ORMs and allows custom date/time formats.

• active_record_doctor

  1 1,542 0.0 Ruby

  Identify database issues before they hit production.

  Project mention: Many of us can face issues working with ActiveRecord due to its inconsistency with the database schema. That's why I have built database_consistency, which can help you avoid the most common issues and improve your application's performance. | /r/rails | 2022-12-28

  Thank you for your contribution! How would you compare this gem to https://github.com/gregnavis/active_record_doctor?

• Logidze

  4 1,503 0.0 Ruby

  Database changes log for Rails

  Project mention: Versioning data in Postgres? Testing a Git like approach | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-20

  There's an interesting approach to it that works with Rails and PostgreSQL using triggers.

  https://github.com/palkan/logidze

• Goldiloader

  1 1,484 0.0 Ruby

  Just the right amount of Rails eager loading

  

  Project mention: I received much feedback about resolving the N+1 problem without updating the code. So I have decided to give another writing round to elaborate on the implementation. Please have a look and let me know what you think. | /r/ruby | 2023-03-14

  Been using https://github.com/salsify/goldiloader in a large production application for many years.

• lockbox

  1 1,345 0.0 Ruby

  Modern encryption for Ruby and Rails

  Project mention: Advanced Usages of Devise for Rails | dev.to | 2023-08-09

  The first step is to install the gem with bundle add authtrail. Additionally, since you'll be storing user-identifiable information such as emails and IP addresses in your app database, it's highly recommended that you encrypt this data in production using a combination of Lockbox and Blindindex gems.

• kredis

  3 1,320 0.0 Ruby

  Higher-level data structures built on Redis

  

  Project mention: solder VS kredis - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/solder | 2023-05-09

• Spreadsheet Architect

  0 1,295 0.0 Ruby

  Spreadsheet Architect is a library that allows you to create XLSX, ODS, or CSV spreadsheets super easily from ActiveRecord relations, plain Ruby objects, or tabular data.

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