58 open source projects written in Ruby
Every Ruby project in the registry, ranked by GitHub stars — license and last push on every entry, data pulled live from the GitHub API every night.
jekyll ★ 52K :globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby
Mastodon ★ 50K Decentralized social networking in your control
huginn ★ 50K Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!
Discourse ★ 48K Cultivate vibrant online communities with ease
devdocs ★ 40K API Documentation Browser
Chatwoot ★ 39K Omnichannel customer support with a built-in AI assistant
GitLab ★ 25K AI-powered DevSecOps for faster, secure software delivery
Docuseal ★ 19K Legally binding document signing for individuals and teams
OpenProject ★ 17K Classic, agile, or hybrid project management, self-hosted
Spree Commerce ★ 16K Open source headless commerce with REST API, no platform fees, built for B2B and marketplaces
gollum ★ 14K A simple, Git-powered wiki with a local frontend and support for many kinds of markup and content.
ubicloud ★ 12K Open source alternative to AWS. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, and IAM servic
Sure.am ★ 11K The personal finance app for everyone
Gumroad ★ 10K Your all-in-one marketplace for digital creators and products
Fizzy ★ 8.3K Modern kanban that's fast, fun, and refreshingly simple
chef ★ 8.3K Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any
WhatWeb ★ 7.0K Next generation web scanner
mailcatcher ★ 6.8K Catches mail and serves it through a dream.
Redmine ★ 6.1K Flexible project management you can host yourself
Zammad ★ 6.1K Powerful helpdesk solution for streamlined customer service
Solidus ★ 5.3K Flexible eCommerce platform for brands that stand out
opal ★ 4.9K Ruby ♥︎ JavaScript
Campfire ★ 4.8K Self-hosted group chat without recurring subscription fees
ruby_llm ★ 4.5K The Ruby-native AI framework. Chats, agents, tools, images, audio, and video through one consistent API, in plain Ruby or Rails.
flipper ★ 4.0K 🐬 Beautiful, performant feature flags for Ruby.
homeland ★ 3.9K :circus_tent: An open source forum/community system based on Rails, developed based on Ruby China.
koala ★ 3.6K A lightweight Facebook library supporting the Graph, Marketing, and Atlas APIs, realtime updates, test users, and OAuth.
PasswordPusher ★ 3.2K 🔐 Securely share sensitive information with automatic expiration & deletion after a set number of views or duration. Track who, what and when with full audi
ruby-openai ★ 3.2K OpenAI API + Ruby! 🤖❤️ GPT-5 & Realtime WebRTC compatible!
bundler-audit ★ 2.8K Patch-level verification for Bundler
comfortable-mexican-sofa ★ 2.7K ComfortableMexicanSofa is a powerful Ruby on Rails 5.2+ CMS (Content Management System) Engine
manyfold ★ 2.2K A self-hosted digital asset manager for 3d print files.
api-umbrella ★ 2.2K Open source API management platform
rswag ★ 2.2K Seamlessly adds a Swagger to Rails-based API's
nanoc ★ 2.2K A powerful web publishing system
yard ★ 2.0K YARD is a Ruby Documentation tool. The Y stands for "Yay!"
resque-scheduler ★ 1.7K A light-weight job scheduling system built on top of Resque
multiwoven ★ 1.7K 🔥🔥🔥 Open source Reverse ETL - alternative to hightouch and census.
activegraph ★ 1.4K An active model wrapper for the Neo4j Graph Database for Ruby.
bridgetown ★ 1.4K A next-generation progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby
itamae ★ 1.1K Configuration management tool inspired by Chef, but simpler and lightweight. Formerly known as Lightchef.
plots2 ★ 1.0K a collaborative knowledge-exchange platform in Rails; we welcome first-time contributors! :balloon:
semantic_logger ★ 956 Semantic Logger is a high-performance, asynchronous structured logging framework for Ruby and Rails.
Sessy ★ 944 Own your SES email analytics, from send to inbox
licensee ★ 919 Ruby gem & CLI to detect a project's open source license (SPDX) from LICENSE files, package manifests, and READMEs
alchemy_cms ★ 905 Alchemy is the Open Source Rails CMS framework for the component based web that can be used as classic server side rendered or headless CMS.
nesta ★ 899 File Based CMS and Static Site Generator
Ceedling ★ 861 Unit testing and build system for C projects
dradis-ce ★ 845 Dradis Framework: Collaboration and reporting for IT Security teams
haven ★ 812 Self-hostable private blogging
Autolab ★ 808 Course management service that enables auto-graded programming assignments.
webauthn-ruby ★ 777 WebAuthn ruby server library ― Make your Ruby/Rails web server become a conformant WebAuthn Relying Party
cuber-gem ★ 711 An open-source automation tool that simplifies the deployment of your apps on Kubernetes.
opentelemetry-ruby ★ 613 OpenTelemetry Ruby API & SDK, and related gems
bolt ★ 558 Bolt is an open source orchestration tool that automates the manual work it takes to maintain your infrastructure on an as-needed basis or as part of a greater
cenit ★ 509 :rocket: Cenit IO - 100% open source integration Platform (iPaaS)
Hackatime ★ 216 Track coding time across 70+ editors, completely free
Pagecord ★ 194 Personal blogging platform that meets you where you write
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Frequently asked questions
How many open source projects are written in Ruby?
This registry tracks 58 Ruby projects, with 518,651 GitHub stars between them and a median of 2,764 stars. The most-adopted is jekyll at 51,743 stars.
Which Ruby projects are most actively maintained?
52 of the 58 projects were pushed in the last 90 days. Each entry above shows its exact last-push date, so you can filter out dormant projects before committing to one.
What licence are Ruby projects usually under?
52 of the 58 carry an explicit open-source licence across 8 distinct licences, and the licence is shown on every card. Permissive licences (MIT, Apache-2.0) are the safest default for commercial use; check the copyleft ones individually.
Should I use Ruby or Python for my project?
Both are viable. Ruby is the better default if your team already knows it or the libraries you need are written in it; Python may suit you better if you need the ecosystem, tooling or performance profile it is known for. The registry lists 58 Ruby projects to work from.