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Top 23 Rails Open-Source Projects
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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chatwoot
Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬
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Kaminari
⚡ A Scope & Engine based, clean, powerful, customizable and sophisticated paginator for Ruby webapps
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FriendlyId
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.
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A 7.1 Ruby on Rails application hosted on a Hetzner VPS and deployed via Kamal.
Project mention: Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-01> Tell me another platform that is free, has realtime chat, voice and video, has stable service, allows sharing images and other media, with good ownership management... and is open source.
Mattermost: https://mattermost.com/
Rocket.Chat: https://www.rocket.chat/
Nextcloud Talk: https://nextcloud.com/talk/
Self hosting and some assembly required. I've run all of them on cheap VPSes to explore a Slack/Discord replacement, neither was mindblowing but all of them seemed okay (Nextcloud's offering was rather barebones, though).
Audio and video support varies because getting those right is challenging, at best you'd just integrate with something like Jitsi, that one's actually pretty good for meetings and such: https://jitsi.org/ and has a cloud version too: https://meet.jit.si/ (yet people still go for Zoom and it's odd UI/UX choices)
I actually rather liked forums back in the day, but I guess nobody will be setting up that many phpBB instances in the current year, though projects like Discourse also seem promising: https://www.discourse.org/
I don't think many people at all will be leaving Discord, due to how entrenched the platform is (network effect): if you want people to help you with what you're working on, you go where they are, not vice versa.
Users can signup and login via the Devise gem and create their organizations.
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Project mention: Diaspora is a decentralized, federated alternative to Facebook that anyone can join and contribute to | /r/InnerNet | 2023-12-07
Rails is absolutely fantastic for projects below 10,000 lines with 1 or 2 contributors, especially if you want a classic forms-based UI. And you can get a huge amount done under those constraints in Rails.
But as of couple of years ago, Rails came with a number of drawbacks:
1. There was no really viable system of static typing that a significant number of people were enthusiastic about. See https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/105sdax/whats_the_lat... for a discussion.
2. The lack of static typing meant far less IDE support. Fewer documentation tooltips, less autocompletion, etc.
3. I used to do a lot of Rails consulting. And whenever I had to drop into a codebase with more than 50,000 lines or 5 active developers, it was generally a painful slog. Too many weird Rails plugins that stopped being maintained, too much magic, too many nasty surprises while refactoring.
Basically, smaller Rails projects were an absolute delight. Larger Rails projects, though, tended to feel more like a swamp. Tools like https://activeadmin.info/ could tip the balance where applicable.
I still think that small Rails projects are fantastic, and I don't think anything since has remotely matched Rails' productivity within that niche. There's just too much mature tooling, and much of it works together seamlessly. But not too many projects want classic multi-page apps right now, and small projects often grow up to be big projects.
A 7.1 Ruby on Rails application hosted on a Hetzner VPS and deployed via Kamal.
With around 50 new gems released daily, it is common to use trending libraries for managing everyday tasks. You probably use Devise for authentication, Cancan for authorization, Kaminari for pagination, or run tests with Rspec.
I also tend to use gems like simple_form to generate my form HTML, and this saves me from having to maintain a lot of view code to outputting translated content onto forms. Also simple_form has it's own i18n convention that compliments the Rails default pretty well.
primer/octicons is the source for all icons used on GitHub.
Project mention: Show HN: Factory-JS – TypeScript dummy object generator for testing | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-29I made Factory-js inspired by factory-bot (https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot), supports Prisma and Drizzle ORM and more. TypeScript is now widely used in both backend and frontend, but there is no de facto standard factory library. I'm developing a web application using Prisma, trpc, and nextjs, but I was struggling with how to write more beautiful and readable back-end tests. That's why I made factory-js.
Brakeman - “Brakeman detects security vulnerabilities in Ruby on Rails applications via static analysis”
Project mention: historical data and "point in time" data modeling techniques, advice. | /r/dataengineering | 2023-06-28if the source (web) application makes their own audit tables. ex: our ruby on rails application uses the paper-trail gem
Project mention: Preview emails with letter_opener, MailCatcher and MailHog | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-13hey HN, I recently published an article going deep into email previewing (in Ruby on Rails, but I think it's relevant beyond Rails).
MailCatcher (https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher) and MailHog (https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog) are super handy and easy to run locally. Both spin up an SMTP server which you can direct mail to, and give you a nice web interface to browse mail and preview it.
Happy to answer any question! thanks, harrison
On a side note, "Sqids ... is an open-source library that lets you generate YouTube-looking IDs from numbers.", "The main use of Sqids is purely visual."
If the purpose of it is to give a friendlier url / id, who not use something like friendly_id instead? (http://norman.github.io/friendly_id).
The url is readable and searchable through the history.
I would much rather prefer people using "www.website.com/channel/video/a-dog-walking" instead of "www.website.com/channel/video/3cXv8c".
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 Rails projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby on Rails | 54,953 |
| 2 | Discourse | 40,604 |
| 3 | Devise | 23,735 |
| 4 | Gitlab CI | 23,609 |
| 5 | forem | 21,603 |
| 6 | chatwoot | 18,728 |
| 7 | diaspora* | 13,350 |
| 8 | Spree Commerce | 12,667 |
| 9 | ActiveAdmin | 9,448 |
| 10 | kamal | 9,062 |
| 11 | Kaminari | 8,514 |
| 12 | Simple Form | 8,193 |
| 13 | octicons | 8,144 |
| 14 | factory_bot | 7,880 |
| 15 | Brakeman | 6,915 |
| 16 | react-rails | 6,728 |
| 17 | PaperTrail | 6,700 |
| 18 | Rails style guide | 6,451 |
| 19 | Searchkick | 6,397 |
| 20 | MailCatcher | 6,190 |
| 21 | FriendlyId | 6,098 |
| 22 | Administrate | 5,814 |
| 23 | will_paginate | 5,703 |
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