Top 23 ORM/ODM Extension Open-Source Projects

• PaperTrail

  18 6,697 5.9 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

• ActsAsTaggableOn

  4 4,949 3.5 Ruby

  A tagging plugin for Rails applications that allows for custom tagging along dynamic contexts.

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• ActiveRecord Import

  5 3,979 7.8 Ruby

  A library for bulk insertion of data into your database using ActiveRecord.

• Ancestry

  6 3,673 5.8 Ruby

  Organise ActiveRecord model into a tree structure

• Audited

  6 3,312 6.8 Ruby

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

  

• PublicActivity

  1 2,919 7.7 Ruby

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

  

• Paranoia

  2 2,847 5.7 Ruby

  acts_as_paranoid for Rails 5, 6 and 7

  

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• Apartment

  5 2,643 0.0 Ruby

  Database multi-tenancy for Rack (and Rails) applications

  

Project mention: Figma's Databases team lived to tell the scale | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-14

I recall a popular rails gem[1] once upon a time that provided multi-tenancy via postgres schemas.

As it turns out, even the company the initially developed the gem ended up ditching the approach due to some of the issues you outlined above.

Managing separate schemas feels like one of those nefarious decisions that make things simple _initially_ but get you into a world of hurt when you need to scale. The company is since defunct but they have an article where they discuss why they ditched the approach [2], TL;DR it's too difficult to maintain and scale

[1] https://github.com/influitive/apartment#tenants-on-different...

• Awesome Nested Set

  2 2,375 5.5 Ruby

  An awesome replacement for acts_as_nested_set and better_nested_set.

  

• Discard

  5 2,020 6.0 Ruby

  🃏🗑 Soft deletes for ActiveRecord done right

Project mention: Don’t allow associations on discarded records | /r/rails | 2023-12-06

Hello there! I am using the Discard gem. I basically want new records associated to them to be invalid.

• ActsAsList

  4 2,013 4.6 Ruby

  An ActiveRecord plugin for managing lists.

• Closure Tree

  2 1,816 5.7 Ruby

  Easily and efficiently make your ActiveRecord models support hierarchies

  

• marginalia

  0 1,715 3.5 Ruby

  Attach comments to ActiveRecord's SQL queries

  

• Enumerize

  0 1,714 7.2 Ruby

  Enumerated attributes with I18n and ActiveRecord/Mongoid support

  

• Logidze

  6 1,555 5.5 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

  5 1,536 6.2 Ruby

  Just the right amount of Rails eager loading

  

• Acts As Votable

  2 1,533 0.0 Ruby

  Votable ActiveRecord for Rails

Project mention: Like button Ajax in Ruby on Rails | /r/codehunter | 2023-06-04

I have a Ruby on Rails project with a model User and a model Content, among others. I wanted to make possible for a user to "like" a content, and I've done that with the acts_as_votable gem.

• Merit

  0 1,519 0.0 Ruby

  Reputation engine for Rails apps

  

• Ruby JSON Schema Validator

  0 1,507 6.6 Ruby

  Ruby JSON Schema Validator (by voxpupuli)

  

• Acts As Tennant

  4 1,500 6.7 Ruby

  Easy multi-tenancy for Rails in a shared database setup.

• ActsAsParanoid

  0 1,431 6.7 Ruby

  ActiveRecord plugin allowing you to hide and restore records without actually deleting them.

  

• dry-validation

  4 1,314 6.0 Ruby

  Validation library with type-safe schemas and rules

  

Project mention: Payload and parameters validation in Rails | dev.to | 2024-03-09

Luckily, there is a large pool of community wisdom around and outside of Rails which may help us a lot here. Instead of inventing our own wheel for now we will use one invented before us by others. Pretty much sure you have seen this magic used outside of Hogwarts before: https://dry-rb.org/gems/dry-validation.

• ActiveRecordExtended

  2 1,244 4.7 Ruby

  Adds additional postgres functionality to an ActiveRecord / Rails application

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