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Top 23 ruby-on-rails Open-Source Projects
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Project mention: Show HN: Maybe – The personal finance app for everyone | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-01
Seems like a reasonably standard Rails app, and they are kind enough to already have a Dockerfile, compose file, and instructions for it: https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe/blob/v0.5.0/docs/host...
Ironically, as documentation for humans these files are good; as a separate signal that Cursor wrote a finance tracking app is also helpful https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe/blob/v0.5.0/.cursor/r...
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Project mention: Navigating Beginner Frustrations in Software Development: A Roadmap to Resilience | dev.to | 2025-04-13
Follow Structured Paths: Use platforms like freeCodeCamp or The Odin Project for guided, project-based curricula.
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The home page doesn't seem to load on my mobile? Just a blank page.
Also an open source DocuSign alternative that we use is DocuSeal. Not affiliated, just a fan.
https://www.docuseal.com/
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You can use doorkeeper gem. Which can convert your Rails application into an identity provider. But this means that one of your applications will be the single source of truth for users management.
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Project mention: The Decorator Pattern: A Ruby On Rails approach for data presentation logic | dev.to | 2024-11-26
The ruby gems community already has an existing gem aimed at solving this same problem: Draper.
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react-on-rails
Integration of React + Webpack + Rails + rails/webpacker including server-side rendering of React, enabling a better developer experience and faster client performance.
Compared to gems like React on Rails or Intertia Rails, the current gem is just an installer and does virtually nothing to modify or add features to React Router. This is a great advantage and ensures that frontend developers will feel right at home.
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Koala
A lightweight Facebook library supporting the Graph, Marketing, and Atlas APIs, realtime updates, test users, and OAuth.
Project mention: Cách Tích Hợp Đăng Nhập Google, GitHub Và Facebook Trong Ứng Dụng Java (Spring Boot) | dev.to | 2025-05-13V. Cấu hình đăng nhập với Facebook 1. Tạo OAuth App trên GitHub Truy cập: https://developers.facebook.com Tạo App → Chọn Consumer Thêm sản phẩm "Facebook Login" → Cấu hình: Valid OAuth Redirect URIs: http://localhost:8080/login/oauth2/code/facebook
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view_component
A framework for building reusable, testable & encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails.
You might want to look at view components:
https://viewcomponent.org/
https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/viewcomponent-in-the-wil...
https://thoughtbot.com/blog/hotwire-turbo-streaming-viewcomp...
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Project mention: Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform Your PostgreSQL into a Powerful Job Queue | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-18
Good Job does the same for Rails
https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job
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Ruby on Rails: Supports SSR through tools like Stimulus Reflex or Hotwire.
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Do you mind explaining what you mean by not being able to find a "good Kafka client" for Ruby? There are pretty good bindings to librdkafka and frameworks like Karafka (https://github.com/karafka/karafka/) that provide many functionalities, including a Web UI.
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RailsConfig
Easiest way to add multi-environment yaml settings to Rails, Sinatra, Padrino and other Ruby projects. (by rubyconfig)
Project mention: Organizing YAML files by creating directories like `config/x` in Rails | dev.to | 2024-10-20These features were introduced in Rails 4.2 as an alternative to gems like the config gem (nostalgic) or the settings_logic gem (also nostalgic).
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Additional features compared to Fider: - Multiple boards to organize feedback - Roadmap - (Optional) anonymous feedback
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We have to start by adding the Solid Queue gem to our bundle, installing it, then running the installer to set up the initial config files for our application:
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real-world-rails
Real World Rails applications and their open source codebases for developers to learn from
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Avo is looking for a mid-level Ruby on Rails Developer and I could not recommend enough the experience of working with Adrian Marin - the creator of Avo.
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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 ruby-on-rails projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | maybe | 44,104 |
| 2 | curriculum | 10,880 |
| 3 | docuseal | 9,127 |
| 4 | ransack | 5,759 |
| 5 | Doorkeeper | 5,389 |
| 6 | Draper | 5,241 |
| 7 | react-on-rails | 5,149 |
| 8 | theodinproject | 3,982 |
| 9 | Mongoid | 3,915 |
| 10 | rails_panel | 3,866 |
| 11 | Koala | 3,558 |
| 12 | view_component | 3,404 |
| 13 | Elasticsearch Rails | 3,076 |
| 14 | good_job | 2,806 |
| 15 | stimulus_reflex | 2,303 |
| 16 | Karafka | 2,152 |
| 17 | RailsConfig | 2,146 |
| 18 | Astuto | 2,112 |
| 19 | solid_queue | 2,110 |
| 20 | Sidekiq-Cron | 1,896 |
| 21 | real-world-rails | 1,776 |
| 22 | Avo | 1,639 |
| 23 | Goldiloader | 1,631 |
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