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Open-source Ruby projects categorized as open-source

Top 23 Ruby open-source Projects

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  1. forem

    For empowering community 🌱

    Project mention: I Built a Community for Government Exam Aspirants Using the Forem | dev.to | 2025-12-11

    I forked the Forem platform and built a dedicated community for government exam preparation and current government job holders to learn, discuss, and guide each other. What started as a simple idea slowly turned into a full 3-month build — late nights, weekends, and deep dives into the Forem codebase.

  2. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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  3. Spree Commerce

    A headless open source e-commerce platform for global brands

    Project mention: 15 Open-Source Projects to Replace Popular SaaS Tools & Apps 👨‍💻🔥 | dev.to | 2025-01-13

    👩‍💻 GitHub link | ⭐ 12.9K stars | 💻 Website link

  4. docuseal

    Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents ✍️

    Project mention: We are building the next DocuSign | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-27

    The home page doesn't seem to load on my mobile? Just a blank page.

    Also an open source DocuSign alternative that we use is DocuSeal. Not affiliated, just a fan.

    https://www.docuseal.com/

  5. choosealicense.com

    A site to provide non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project

  6. Avo

    The most powerful Ruby on Rails Admin Panel Framework! (by avo-hq)

  7. 24pullrequests

    :christmas_tree: Giving back to open source for the holidays

  8. multiwoven

    🔥🔥🔥 Open source Reverse ETL - alternative to hightouch and census.

    Project mention: JavaScript Temporal Is Coming | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-30

    Curious to see how Temporal works with JS on the client side!

    It’s an awesome tool for durable execution, I’ve been using it in my OSS projects, and it has been instrumental in building a leading Reverse ETL platform powered by Temporal.

    https://github.com/Multiwoven/multiwoven

  9. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  10. CodeTriage

    Discover the best way to get started contributing to Open Source projects

    Project mention: Hacktoberfest 25 : l’édition Zenika Open Source | dev.to | 2025-11-07
  11. best-practices-badge

    🏆Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Best Practices Badge (formerly Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) Best Practices Badge)

    Project mention: Why does Debian change software? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-22

    > Debian avoids including anything in the main part of its package archive it can’t legally distribute...

    Related: netadata to be removed form Debian https://github.com/coreinfrastructure/best-practices-badge/i...

  12. cfn_nag

    Linting tool for CloudFormation templates

  13. licensee

    A Ruby Gem to detect under what license a project is distributed. (by licensee)

  14. Stethoscope

    A research-validated stethoscope whose plans are available Freely and openly. The cost of the entire stethoscope is between $2.5 to $5 to produce (by GliaX)

  15. brasil

    Recursos e informações do GitHub para a comunidade tech do Brasil.

  16. human-essentials

    Human Essentials is an inventory management system for diaper, incontinence, and period-supply banks. It supports them in distributing to partners, tracking inventory, and reporting stats and analytics.

  17. ekylibre

    Open source Farm management Information System (FMIS) - Connecting farms to the world

  18. casa

    Volunteer management system for nonprofit CASA, which serves foster youth in counties across America.

  19. dox

    Automated API documentation from Rspec (by infinum)

  20. fugu

    Free, privacy-friendly, simple, open-source and self-hostable product analytics. (by shafy)

  21. clauneck

    A tool for scraping emails, social media accounts, and much more information from websites using Google Search Results.

  22. WebsiteOne

    A website for Agile Ventures

  23. Lazylead

    Eliminate the annoying work within ticketing systems (Jira, GitHub, Trello). Allows automating (without admin access) daily actions like tickets fields verification, email notifications by JQL/GQL, meeting requests to your (or teammates) calendar.

  24. mapzy

    Free, simple, open-source and self-hostable store finder.

  25. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source open-source projects in Ruby? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 forem 22,551
2 Spree Commerce 15,098
3 docuseal 11,013
4 choosealicense.com 4,007
5 Avo 1,725
6 24pullrequests 1,704
7 multiwoven 1,636
8 CodeTriage 1,450
9 best-practices-badge 1,304
10 cfn_nag 1,300
11 licensee 864
12 Stethoscope 765
13 brasil 680
14 human-essentials 554
15 ekylibre 460
16 casa 357
17 dox 238
18 fugu 215
19 clauneck 189
20 copyright-header 181
21 WebsiteOne 145
22 Lazylead 74
23 mapzy 55

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