Top 13 rails-api Open-Source Projects

1. keygen-api

   1 32 1,275 9.5 Gherkin

   Keygen is a modern, fair source software licensing and distribution API. For developers, by developers.

   

   Project mention: Buttondown's email subscription spam firewall | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-06

   This is interesting. I've been using my transactional email provider (Sendgrid) to manually [0] send newsletters to ~10k subscribers -- essentially the active accounts -- but I've noticed that my response rate has been super low the last year or so (relatively), so I'm wondering if my domain rating has taken a hit. This firewall is interesting. Maybe I should switch to a newsletter provider like this instead of sending as transactional email?

   [0]: https://github.com/keygen-sh/keygen-api/blob/master/lib/task...

   p.s. it's a pet-peeve of mine when docs subdomains have no obvious link to the top domain!

2. InfluxDB

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   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.

   

3. Open-Source-Ruby-and-Rails-Apps

   2 7 1,246 3.1

   Awesome Ruby and Rails Open Source applications 🌈

   

4. api_guard

   3 4 278 1.2 Ruby

   JWT authentication solution for Rails APIs

   

5. devise-api

   4 3 174 5.1 Ruby

   The devise-api gem is a convenient way to add authentication to your Ruby on Rails application using the devise gem. It provides support for access tokens and refresh tokens, which allow you to authenticate API requests and keep the user's session active for a longer period of time on the client side

   

6. request_migrations

   5 12 136 4.6 Ruby

   Write request and response migrations for Stripe-like versioning of your Ruby on Rails API. Make breaking changes without breaking things!

   

7. searq.org

   6 6 96 6.9 Ruby

   SearQ, the RSS search engine that is both speedy and free! SearQ offers a RESTful API that simplifies the search for data from RSS feeds. Finding what you need has never been easier with SearQ.

   

8. Rails-API-React-Tutorial

   7 2 74 0.0 Ruby

   📱 A Rails 6 API backend React JS + Webpacker guide. Includes API setup, serializers, and react integration in the frontend. 🌲

   

9. Stream

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   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.

   

10. chatgpt-ruby

    8 1 40 5.2 Ruby

    🤖💎 ChatGPT Ruby – a simple gem for accessing the OpenAI API

    

    Project mention: Show HN: ChatGPT-Ruby – A Minimal, Rails-Friendly OpenAI SDK | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-27

11. Rails Ranger

    9 0 33 4.7 JavaScript

    🤠 An opinionated AJAX client for Ruby on Rails APIs

    

12. daraja-test

    10 1 18 7.6 Ruby

    Implementing m-pesa stk push and query

    

13. endpoint-flux

    11 1 18 0.0 Ruby

    Micro framework for dealing with API and endpoints

    

14. rails-api-vite-easy-stack

    12 1 8 6.8 Ruby

    A Monorepo Boilerplate for Rails 8 GraphQL API with Vite + React SPA

    

15. myhearty-api

    13 4 8 1.8 Ruby

    Backend implementation of MyHearty API in Ruby on Rails and other services.

    

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