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ActiveRecord without Rails

Projects that help in using ActiveRecord outside of a Rails project.

Rails Extensions

Extensions and Add-ons for the Ruby-on-Rails web-application framework

Rails Ratings

Add ratings feature for any rails app.

Rails Search Filters

Simplify Rails queries and filtering

Rails Tagging

Extend tags functionality for any rails app.

Rails Version Management

Tools for managing the Rails versions of new or existing apps

Calendars

A suite of libraries designed to seamlessly integrate calendar functionalities into Ruby on Rails applications.

Rails Activity Feeds

Rails Admin Interfaces

Rails App Templates

Web Authentication

Handle the authentication of users in web applications written in frameworks like Rails

Rails Captcha

Captchas help to establish that a user is human to protect websites from bots and spam by presenting challenges that are hard to solve for computers

Rails Class Diagrams

Rails Comments

Add comments functionality to any ruby website.

Rails Controller Abstractions

Rails DB Bootstrapping

Easily insert and maintain seed data in the database.

Rails Fixture Replacement

Rails In-Place Editing

Rails Menu Builders

Rails Money, Currencies, Exchange Rates

Rails Permalinks & Slugs

Rails Presenters

Rails Search Engines

Supports search engines and full-text search.

Rails Subdomains

Rails Wizards

Testing Rails Engines

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activesupport

51.54

Ruby Core Extensions

No release in over a year
activesupportrails/railsHomepage
A toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework. Rich support for multibyte strings, internationalization, time zones, and testing.
2021
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2026
Downloads
1,310,741,375
Stars
58,317
Current version
8.1.3
Total releases
502
First release
1980-01-02
Latest release
2025-03-12
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rails

42.67

Web App Frameworks

No release in over a year
railsrails/railsHomepage
Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web framework optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It encourages beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.
2021
2022
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2026
Downloads
726,600,168
Stars
58,317
Current version
8.1.3
Total releases
516
First release
1980-01-02
Latest release
2025-03-12
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activerecord

43.34

Object-relational mapping

No release in over a year
activerecordrails/railsHomepage
Databases on Rails. Build a persistent domain model by mapping database tables to Ruby classes. Strong conventions for associations, validations, aggregations, migrations, and testing come baked-in.
2021
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2026
Downloads
770,756,822
Stars
58,317
Current version
8.1.3
Total releases
514
First release
1980-01-02
Latest release
2025-03-12
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actionpack

43.17
No release in over a year
actionpackrails/railsHomepage
Web apps on Rails. Simple, battle-tested conventions for building and testing MVC web applications. Works with any Rack-compatible server.
2021
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2026
Downloads
759,669,156
Stars
58,317
Current version
8.1.3
Total releases
515
First release
1980-01-02
Latest release
2025-03-12
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railties

42.61
No release in over a year
railtiesrails/railsHomepage
Rails internals: application bootup, plugins, generators, and rake tasks.
2021
2022
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2026
Downloads
722,611,669
Stars
58,317
Current version
8.1.3
Total releases
452
First release
1980-01-02
Latest release
2025-03-12
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actionmailer

42.44

E-Mail Delivery

No release in over a year
actionmailerrails/railsHomepage
Email on Rails. Compose, deliver, and test emails using the familiar controller/view pattern. First-class support for multipart email and attachments.
2021
2022
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2026
Downloads
711,217,029
Stars
58,317
Current version
8.1.3
Total releases
511
First release
1980-01-02
Latest release
2025-03-12
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activestorage

38.94
No release in over a year
activestoragerails/railsHomepage
Attach cloud and local files in Rails applications.
2021
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Downloads
481,169,703
Stars
58,317
Current version
8.1.3
Total releases
181
First release
1980-01-02
Latest release
2025-03-12
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actiontext

37.54
No release in over a year
actiontextrails/railsHomepage
Edit and display rich text in Rails applications.
2021
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2026
Downloads
388,517,100
Stars
58,317
Current version
8.1.3
Total releases
150
First release
1980-01-02
Latest release
2025-03-12
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actionmailbox

37.53

E-Mail Processing

No release in over a year
actionmailboxrails/railsHomepage
Receive and process incoming emails in Rails applications.
2021
2022
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2026
Downloads
388,207,137
Stars
58,317
Current version
8.1.3
Total releases
151
First release
1980-01-02
Latest release
2025-03-12
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rails-html-sanitizer

9.92
No release in over a year
rails-html-sanitizerrails/rails-html-sanitizerHomepage
HTML sanitization for Rails applications
2021
2022
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2026
Downloads
643,836,432
Stars
329
Current version
1.7.0
Total releases
20
First release
1980-01-02
Latest release
2024-12-12
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blueimp-file-upload-rails

13.05
Repository is archived
No release in over 3 years
Low commit activity in last 3 years
blueimp-file-upload-railsblueimp/jquery-file-uploadHomepage
This gem wraps the blueimp jQuery File Upload plugin as a Rails asset gem. The plugin is by Sebastian Tschan, and the gem is packaged by Mike Virata-Stone.
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Downloads
18,872
Stars
30,795
Current version
8.6.1.1
Total releases
3
First release
2013-07-11
Latest release
2013-09-28
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rails-dom-testing

9.58
No release in over a year
rails-dom-testingrails/rails-dom-testingHomepage
This gem can compare doms and assert certain elements exists in doms using Nokogiri.
2021
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2026
Downloads
624,839,346
Stars
183
Current version
2.3.0
Total releases
17
First release
1980-01-02
Latest release
2023-08-03
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devise

13.84

Web Authentication

No release in over a year
deviseheartcombo/deviseHomepage
Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden
2021
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2026
Downloads
270,026,323
Stars
24,337
Current version
5.0.3
Total releases
172
First release
1980-01-02
Latest release
2024-04-10
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rack-protection

11.54
No release in over a year
rack-protectionsinatra/sinatraHomepage
Protect against typical web attacks, works with all Rack apps, including Rails
2021
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Downloads
480,613,961
Stars
12,422
Current version
4.2.1
Total releases
53
First release
1980-01-02
Latest release
2024-11-20
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glennr-devise

9.75
No release in over 3 years
glennr-deviseplataformatec/deviseHomepage
Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden. Now with added support for changing email content_type yay!
2021
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Downloads
9,579
Stars
24,338
Current version
1.0.1.1
Total releases
2
First release
2010-02-14
Latest release
2010-02-14
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sprockets-rails

8.4
No release in over a year
sprockets-railsrails/sprockets-railsHomepage
Sprockets Rails integration
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Downloads
530,484,026
Stars
592
Current version
3.5.2
Total releases
43
First release
2009-12-01
Latest release
2024-07-31
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rspec-rails

7.69
A long-lived project that still receives updates
rspec-railsrspec/rspec-railsHomepage
rspec-rails integrates the Rails testing helpers into RSpec.
2021
2022
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2026
Downloads
376,138,203
Stars
5,254
Current version
8.0.4
Total releases
175
First release
1980-01-02
Latest release
2025-04-30
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erubis

8.91

Template Engines

No release in over 3 years
erubisHomepage
Erubis is an implementation of eRuby and has the following features: * Very fast, almost three times faster than ERB and about 10% faster than eruby. * Multi-language support (Ruby/PHP/C/Java/Scheme/Perl/Javascript) * Auto escaping support * Auto trimming spaces around '<% %>' * Embe...
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Downloads
293,384,076
Current version
2.7.0
Total releases
20
First release
2006-01-31
Latest release
2011-04-01
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rails-i18n

5.24
No release in over a year
rails-i18nsvenfuchs/rails-i18nHomepage
A set of common locale data and translations to internationalize and/or localize your Rails applications.
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Downloads
128,295,847
Stars
4,026
Current version
8.1.0
Total releases
78
First release
1980-01-02
Latest release
2024-11-10
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fatfreecrm/fat_free_crm

6.83
The project is in a healthy, maintained state
Ruby on Rails CRM platform
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