ActiveRecord is great, but could be better. Here are some tweaks for it.

Provides encrypted string attributes to Active Record models

Adds a symbol attribute type to activerecord

UUID extension for ActiveRecord

Extends activerecord validations with helpers

SQL views with ActiveRecord

Simple DSL to control callback attribute changed in ActiveRecord model

A simple mixin to ActiveRecord::Base that allows use of OR arel relations.

Manage the states of records by commonly used attributes.

Hooks into ActiveRecord to automatically sends reads to read replicas and writes to primary database.

Export or import data from multiple input formats such as arrays, hashes, and active record or vice versa.

Flexible but opinionated framework for defining and running reports on Rails models backed by SQL databases.

This rubygem is used to build the connection between any ActiveResource model and ActiveRecord model.

gem to track the changes of active_resource object.

Define retention policies on ActiveRecord models to automatically destroy, delete, or archive expired records. Includes batch limiting, advisory locking, transactional archiving, and background job support.

Simple, dependable JSONRpc 2.0 Server library for Rails

Rails gem that allows a project to be distributed over multiple companies, without having to set specific credentials in a file, allowing to distribute only it's structure, fillable whitin the terminal with a single command.

ActiveSaga provides durable, idempotent workflow orchestration built on Rails Active Job. It supports sync and async steps, retries with backoff, signals, compensations, and pluggable persistence stores.

Active Santization provides any easy way to consistently sanitize data from a MySql DB. With the config you can specify how to sanitize each tables and column.

Utilty gem to provide scopes to models.