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A hand-curated, daily-updated gallery of open-source projects. Browse the ecosystem, ranked by GitHub stars.

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1217 projects

A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple. Maintained by discourse on GitHub, where it has earned 47,460 stars from the community.

@discourse3mo ago

Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc.. Maintained by chatwoot on GitHub, where it has earned 34,391 stars from the community.

@chatwoot3mo ago

GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com. Maintained by gitlabhq on GitHub, where it has earned 24,581 stars from the community.

@gitlabhq3mo ago

Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden. Maintained by heartcombo on GitHub, where it has earned 24,347 stars from the community.

@heartcombo3mo ago

For empowering community. Maintained by forem on GitHub, where it has earned 22,747 stars from the community.

Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents. Maintained by docusealco on GitHub, where it has earned 18,442 stars from the community.

@docusealco5w ago

OpenProject is the leading open source project management software for product, project and portfolio management. A powerful Jira alternative with agile planning, issue tracking, roadmaps, Gantt charts, time tracking, collaboration features, and more. Available on premises or in the cloud. ⭐ Star us on GitHub. Maintained by opf on GitHub, where it has earned 16,325 stars from the community.

A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network. Maintained by diaspora on GitHub, where it has earned 13,653 stars from the community.

@diaspora3mo ago

The open curriculum for learning web development. Maintained by TheOdinProject on GitHub, where it has earned 12,884 stars from the community.

@TheOdinProject2mo ago

The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications. Maintained by activeadmin on GitHub, where it has earned 9,705 stars from the community.

@activeadmin3mo ago

A scalable set of icons handcrafted with by GitHub. Maintained by primer on GitHub, where it has earned 8,717 stars from the community.

A Scope & Engine based, clean, powerful, customizable and sophisticated paginator for Ruby webapps. Maintained by kaminari on GitHub, where it has earned 8,679 stars from the community.

@kaminari8mo ago

Rapid Web Development w/ Go. Maintained by gobuffalo on GitHub, where it has earned 8,404 stars from the community.

@gobuffalo7mo ago

Forms made easy for Rails! It's tied to a simple DSL, with no opinion on markup. Maintained by heartcombo on GitHub, where it has earned 8,231 stars from the community.

@heartcombo6mo ago

A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data. Maintained by thoughtbot on GitHub, where it has earned 8,181 stars from the community.

@thoughtbot3mo ago

Kanban as it should be. Not as it has been. Maintained by basecamp on GitHub, where it has earned 7,946 stars from the community.

@basecamp3mo ago

A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications. Maintained by presidentbeef on GitHub, where it has earned 7,256 stars from the community.

@presidentbeef4mo ago

Rails Girls Guides. Maintained by railsgirls on GitHub, where it has earned 7,129 stars from the community.

@railsgirls3mo ago

Track changes to your rails models. Maintained by paper-trail-gem on GitHub, where it has earned 7,025 stars from the community.

@paper-trail-gem5mo ago

Integrate React.js with Rails views and controllers, the asset pipeline, or webpacker. Maintained by reactjs on GitHub, where it has earned 6,775 stars from the community.

@reactjs5mo ago

Catches mail and serves it through a dream. Maintained by sj26 on GitHub, where it has earned 6,769 stars from the community.

Intelligent search made easy. Maintained by ankane on GitHub, where it has earned 6,717 stars from the community.

A community-driven Ruby on Rails style guide. Maintained by rubocop on GitHub, where it has earned 6,508 stars from the community.

@rubocop3mo ago

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. Maintained by norman on GitHub, where it has earned 6,225 stars from the community.

A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard. Maintained by thoughtbot on GitHub, where it has earned 6,032 stars from the community.

@thoughtbot3mo ago

Object-based searching. Maintained by activerecord-hackery on GitHub, where it has earned 5,865 stars from the community.

@activerecord-hackery4mo ago

Zammad is a web based open source helpdesk/customer support system. Maintained by zammad on GitHub, where it has earned 5,753 stars from the community.

Pagination library for Rails and other Ruby applications. Maintained by mislav on GitHub, where it has earned 5,691 stars from the community.

@mislav10mo ago

The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails. Maintained by CanCanCommunity on GitHub, where it has earned 5,689 stars from the community.

@CanCanCommunity3mo ago

Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape. Maintained by doorkeeper-gem on GitHub, where it has earned 5,516 stars from the community.

@doorkeeper-gem2mo ago

Ruby implementation of GraphQL. Maintained by rmosolgo on GitHub, where it has earned 5,450 stars from the community.

@rmosolgo3mo ago

Solidus, the open-source eCommerce framework for industry trailblazers. Maintained by solidusio on GitHub, where it has earned 5,316 stars from the community.

@solidusio3mo ago

Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails. Maintained by rails on GitHub, where it has earned 5,274 stars from the community.

AASM - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, ActiveRecord, Mongoid, NoBrainer, Dynamoid). Maintained by aasm on GitHub, where it has earned 5,222 stars from the community.

Integration of React + Webpack + Rails including server-side rendering of React, enabling a better developer experience and faster client performance. Maintained by shakacode on GitHub, where it has earned 5,191 stars from the community.

@shakacode4w ago

Agnostic pagination in plain ruby. Maintained by ddnexus on GitHub, where it has earned 4,974 stars from the community.

@ddnexus3mo ago

Automatically generates beautiful and easy-to-read ER diagrams from your database. Maintained by liam-hq on GitHub, where it has earned 4,962 stars from the community.

@liam-hq2mo ago

Code coverage for Ruby with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites. Maintained by simplecov-ruby on GitHub, where it has earned 4,910 stars from the community.

@simplecov-ruby3mo ago

Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion. Maintained by lobsters on GitHub, where it has earned 4,742 stars from the community.

@lobsters3mo ago

Main website for The Odin Project. Maintained by TheOdinProject on GitHub, where it has earned 4,560 stars from the community.

@TheOdinProject2mo ago

Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info. Maintained by ctran on GitHub, where it has earned 4,491 stars from the community.

Untangle your GitHub Notifications. Maintained by octobox on GitHub, where it has earned 4,476 stars from the community.

@octobox3mo ago

Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails. Maintained by ankane on GitHub, where it has earned 4,466 stars from the community.

Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool. Maintained by mina-deploy on GitHub, where it has earned 4,355 stars from the community.

@mina-deploy2y ago

A self hosted music streaming server. Maintained by blackcandy-org on GitHub, where it has earned 4,316 stars from the community.

@blackcandy-org3mo ago

One delightful Ruby framework for every major AI provider. Build AI agents, chatbots, RAG apps, and multimodal workflows in beautiful, expressive code. Maintained by crmne on GitHub, where it has earned 4,280 stars from the community.

A Rails application template with our standard defaults, optimized for deployment on Heroku. Maintained by thoughtbot on GitHub, where it has earned 4,048 stars from the community.

@thoughtbot4mo ago

Beautiful, performant feature flags for Ruby. Maintained by flippercloud on GitHub, where it has earned 3,956 stars from the community.

@flippercloud3mo ago

The Official Ruby Object Mapper for MongoDB. Maintained by mongodb on GitHub, where it has earned 3,916 stars from the community.

@mongodb2mo ago

An extendable Ruby on Rails CMS that supports Rails 6.1 to 8.1+ and Ruby 3.x to 4.x. Maintained by refinery on GitHub, where it has earned 3,908 stars from the community.

@refinery5mo ago

Chrome extension for Rails development. Maintained by dejan on GitHub, where it has earned 3,869 stars from the community.

An open source forum/community system based on Rails, developed based on Ruby China. Maintained by ruby-china on GitHub, where it has earned 3,859 stars from the community.

@ruby-china3mo ago

Curriculum for RailsBridge workshops. Maintained by railsbridge on GitHub, where it has earned 3,821 stars from the community.

@railsbridge2y ago

Rails authentication with email & password. Maintained by thoughtbot on GitHub, where it has earned 3,735 stars from the community.

@thoughtbot4mo ago

Versioned database views for Rails. Maintained by scenic-views on GitHub, where it has earned 3,623 stars from the community.

@scenic-views3mo ago

Simple one-liner tests for common Rails functionality. Maintained by thoughtbot on GitHub, where it has earned 3,585 stars from the community.

@thoughtbot3mo ago

Token based authentication for Rails JSON APIs. Designed to work with jToker and ng-token-auth. Maintained by lynndylanhurley on GitHub, where it has earned 3,569 stars from the community.

@lynndylanhurley5mo ago

A lightweight Facebook library supporting the Graph, Marketing, and Atlas APIs, realtime updates, test users, and OAuth. Maintained by arsduo on GitHub, where it has earned 3,567 stars from the community.

@arsduo12mo ago

A full featured Live Chat, Support & Marketing platform, alternative to Intercom, Drift, Crisp. Maintained by chaskiq on GitHub, where it has earned 3,564 stars from the community.

@chaskiq3mo ago

Audited (formerly acts_as_audited) is an ORM extension that logs all changes to your Rails models. Maintained by collectiveidea on GitHub, where it has earned 3,494 stars from the community.

@collectiveidea11mo ago

What is Ruby on Rails?

Ruby on Rails is the convention-over-configuration framework behind countless production web apps. This gallery lists 1,217 open-source projects built with Ruby on Rails, most of them in DevTools, APIs and Dashboards, ranked by GitHub stars so the most-adopted repositories come first.

How projects are selected

Projects are public GitHub repositories found with the GitHub search query “topic:ruby-on-rails” and at least 30 stars. Each repository is checked against Ruby on Rails’s languages and ecosystem before it is categorized, and stars, forks and last-commit dates come straight from the GitHub API, refreshed daily (current snapshot: October 6, 2026). Nothing here is paid placement.

Ruby on Rails projects: FAQ

How many open-source Ruby on Rails projects are listed?: 1,217 open-source projects built with Ruby on Rails are listed, sourced from public GitHub repositories as of October 6, 2026.
What is the most-starred Ruby on Rails project on GitHub?: discourse leads with 47,460 GitHub stars (47.5k), followed by chatwoot with 34,391.
What kinds of projects are built with Ruby on Rails?: The largest category is DevTools, with 761 projects (63% of the gallery), followed by APIs with 74. Projects span 14 categories in total.
Which license do most Ruby on Rails projects use?: MIT is the most common license, used by 851 of 1,217 projects (70%); Apache-2.0 is next with 35. 252 projects declare no recognized license.

Video archive

Ruby on Rails talks, tutorials & deep-dives

The Untold Story of Ruby

The Untold Story of Ruby

CCodeSource · 42K views · Dec 5, 2025

Ruby vs Python: DHH on why Ruby is better | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips

Ruby vs Python: DHH on why Ruby is better | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips

LLex Clips · 27K views · Jul 18, 2025

Beginner's Guide to Installing Ruby on Rails - by Typecraft

Beginner's Guide to Installing Ruby on Rails - by Typecraft

RRuby on Rails · 29K views · Jul 15, 2025