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Top 13 Ruby Utility Projects

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  1. react-on-rails

    Integration of React + Webpack + Rails including server-side rendering of React, enabling a better developer experience and faster client performance.

    Project mention: Integrating Ruby on Rails with Modern SPAs | dev.to | 2025-04-22

    Compared to gems like React on Rails or Intertia Rails, the current gem is just an installer and does virtually nothing to modify or add features to React Router. This is a great advantage and ensures that frontend developers will feel right at home.

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  3. Fusuma

    Multitouch gestures with libinput driver on Linux (by iberianpig)

  4. algorithms

    Ruby algorithms and data structures. C extensions (by kanwei)

  5. counter_culture

    Turbo-charged counter caches for your Rails app.

  6. smarter_csv

    Ruby Gem for convenient reading and writing of CSV files. It has intelligent defaults, and auto-discovery of column and row separators. It imports CSV Files as Array(s) of Hashes, suitable for direct processing with ActiveRecord, kicking-off batch jobs with Sidekiq, parallel processing, or oploading data to S3. Writing CSV Files is equally easy.

  7. Sail

    Sail is a lightweight Rails engine that brings an admin panel for managing configuration settings on a live Rails app (by vinistock)

  8. Time Math

    Small library for operations with time steps (like "next day", "floor to hour" and so on)

  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. Piperator

    Composable pipelines for Enumerators.

  11. jaro_winkler

    Ruby & C implementation of Jaro-Winkler distance algorithm which supports UTF-8 string.

  12. Hanami::Utils

    Ruby core extentions and class utilities for Hanami

  13. clipboard-rails

    clipboard.js javascript library integration for your Rails 4 and Rails 5 applications

  14. timet

    Time tracking gem with time reports

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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    2 projects | /r/qtile | 15 Oct 2023

  • I got an error while trying to use fusuma

    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 13 Sep 2023

  • I've had enough of the fact that there isn't a way to change the 4-finger swipe down touchpad gesture to trigger the overview instead of the present windows effect...

    1 project | /r/kde | 4 Jun 2023
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Index

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

# Project Stars
1 react-on-rails 5,199
2 Fusuma 3,849
3 algorithms 2,701
4 counter_culture 2,090
5 smarter_csv 1,493
6 Sail 506
7 Time Math 275
8 Piperator 205
9 jaro_winkler 202
10 Hanami::Utils 173
11 Related 146
12 clipboard-rails 72
13 timet 6

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