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Discover dashboards, UI kits, e-commerce, blogs and dev tools. en Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:29:05 GMT MadeWithWhat catalog https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/humid/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/humid/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:09:06 GMT Javascript Server Side Rendering for Rails · 59 GitHub stars · by thoughtbot DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/test-track-rails-client/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/test-track-rails-client/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:09:06 GMT The Ruby on Rails client for TestTrack · 37 GitHub stars · by Betterment Testing https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/claude-ruby-marketplace/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/claude-ruby-marketplace/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:09:06 GMT Claude Code plugin marketplace for Ruby and Rails development · 34 GitHub stars · by hoblin DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/slugifiable/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/slugifiable/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:09:06 GMT Ruby gem to generate SEO-optimized URL slugs for your records · 30 GitHub stars · by rameerez DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/discourse/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/discourse/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple. · 47,460 GitHub stars · by discourse DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/chatwoot/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/chatwoot/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. · 34,391 GitHub stars · by chatwoot Dashboards https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/gitlabhq/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/gitlabhq/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com · 24,581 GitHub stars · by gitlabhq Dashboards https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/devise/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/devise/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden. · 24,347 GitHub stars · by heartcombo Authentication https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/forem/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/forem/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT For empowering community · 22,747 GitHub stars · by forem DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/docuseal/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/docuseal/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents · 17,518 GitHub stars · by docusealco DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/openproject/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/openproject/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT OpenProject is the leading open source project management software. · 15,558 GitHub stars · by opf Dashboards https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/diaspora/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/diaspora/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network. · 13,653 GitHub stars · by diaspora DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/activeadmin/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/activeadmin/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications. · 9,705 GitHub stars · by activeadmin Dashboards https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/octicons/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/octicons/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT A scalable set of icons handcrafted with by GitHub · 8,717 GitHub stars · by primer UI Kits https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/kaminari/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/kaminari/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT A Scope & Engine based, clean, powerful, customizable and sophisticated paginator for Ruby webapps · 8,679 GitHub stars · by kaminari DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/buffalo/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/buffalo/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Rapid Web Development w/ Go · 8,404 GitHub stars · by gobuffalo DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/simple-form/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/simple-form/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Forms made easy for Rails! It's tied to a simple DSL, with no opinion on markup. · 8,231 GitHub stars · by heartcombo DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/factory-bot/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/factory-bot/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data. · 8,181 GitHub stars · by thoughtbot Testing https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/fizzy/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/fizzy/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Kanban as it should be. Not as it has been. · 7,946 GitHub stars · by basecamp Dashboards https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/brakeman/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/brakeman/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications · 7,256 GitHub stars · by presidentbeef DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/guides-railsgirls-com/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/guides-railsgirls-com/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Rails Girls Guides · 7,129 GitHub stars · by railsgirls Docs https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/paper-trail/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/paper-trail/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Track changes to your rails models · 7,025 GitHub stars · by paper-trail-gem DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/react-rails/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/react-rails/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Integrate React.js with Rails views and controllers, the asset pipeline, or webpacker. · 6,771 GitHub stars · by reactjs DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/mailcatcher/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/mailcatcher/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Catches mail and serves it through a dream. · 6,769 GitHub stars · by sj26 DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/searchkick/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/searchkick/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Intelligent search made easy · 6,717 GitHub stars · by ankane DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/rails-style-guide/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/rails-style-guide/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT A community-driven Ruby on Rails style guide · 6,508 GitHub stars · by rubocop Docs https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/friendly-id/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/friendly-id/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT 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. · 6,225 GitHub stars · by norman DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/administrate/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/administrate/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard. · 6,032 GitHub stars · by thoughtbot Dashboards https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/ransack/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/ransack/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Object-based searching. · 5,866 GitHub stars · by activerecord-hackery DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/zammad/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/zammad/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Zammad is a web based open source helpdesk/customer support system. · 5,753 GitHub stars · by zammad APIs https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/will-paginate/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/will-paginate/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Pagination library for Rails and other Ruby applications · 5,691 GitHub stars · by mislav DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/cancancan/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/cancancan/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails. · 5,689 GitHub stars · by CanCanCommunity Authentication https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/graphql-ruby/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/graphql-ruby/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Ruby implementation of GraphQL · 5,450 GitHub stars · by rmosolgo APIs https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/solidus/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/solidus/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Solidus, the open-source eCommerce framework for industry trailblazers. · 5,316 GitHub stars · by solidusio E-commerce https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/webpacker/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/webpacker/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails · 5,274 GitHub stars · by rails DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/aasm/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/aasm/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT AASM - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, ActiveRecord, Mongoid, NoBrainer, Dynamoid) · 5,222 GitHub stars · by aasm DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/pagy/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/pagy/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Agnostic pagination in plain ruby · 4,974 GitHub stars · by ddnexus DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/simplecov/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/simplecov/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Code coverage for Ruby with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites · 4,910 GitHub stars · by simplecov-ruby Testing https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/lobsters/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/lobsters/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion · 4,742 GitHub stars · by lobsters DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/annotate-models/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/annotate-models/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info · 4,491 GitHub stars · by ctran DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/octobox/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/octobox/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Untangle your GitHub Notifications · 4,476 GitHub stars · by octobox DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/ahoy/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/ahoy/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails · 4,466 GitHub stars · by ankane Dashboards https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/mina/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/mina/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool · 4,355 GitHub stars · by mina-deploy DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/blackcandy/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/blackcandy/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT A self hosted music streaming server · 4,316 GitHub stars · by blackcandy-org DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/ruby-llm/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/ruby-llm/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT One delightful Ruby framework for every major AI provider. Build AI agents, chatbots, RAG apps, and multimodal workflows in beautiful, expressive code. · 4,241 GitHub stars · by crmne AI & ML https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/suspenders/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/suspenders/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT A Rails application template with our standard defaults, optimized for deployment on Heroku. · 4,048 GitHub stars · by thoughtbot Templates https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/flipper/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/flipper/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Beautiful, performant feature flags for Ruby. · 3,956 GitHub stars · by flippercloud DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/refinerycms/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/refinerycms/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT An extendable Ruby on Rails CMS that supports Rails 6.1 to 8.1+ and Ruby 3.x to 4.x · 3,908 GitHub stars · by refinery Blogs https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/homeland/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/homeland/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT An open source forum/community system based on Rails, developed based on Ruby China. · 3,859 GitHub stars · by ruby-china DevTools https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/docs/ https://madewithwhat.net/rails/project/docs/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:28:31 GMT Curriculum for RailsBridge workshops · 3,821 GitHub stars · by railsbridge Docs