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Rails projects on GitHub

The Ruby on Rails web framework and apps built with it.

As of , the most-starred Rails projects on GitHub are rails (58.8K stars), discourse (48K stars) and chatwoot (37.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 14 Rails repositories with 330.8K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was chatwoot, with +35 stars in a day.

14Projects
330.8KStars in total
+53Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+35

chatwoot

chatwoot/chatwoot · ★ 37.9K

Chatwoot is an open-source, self-hosted customer support platform that unifies live chat, email, and social channels (WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Telegram, Line, SMS) into one inbox, positioned as an alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, and Salesforce Service Cloud.

+4

rails

rails/rails · ★ 58.8K

Rails is a web application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications following the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

+4

discourse

discourse/discourse · ★ 48K

Discourse is a 100% open-source community discussion platform that lets you run forums with topics, built-in real-time chat, and a plugin/theme ecosystem.

+4

dawarich

Freika/dawarich · ★ 10.7K

Dawarich is a self-hostable web app that replaces Google Timeline: it tracks your location history, shows it on an interactive map, and analyzes your travels.

The all-time top

14 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · rails/rails

    rails

    Rails is a web application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications following the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

    58.8K
  2. #2 · discourse/discourse

    discourse

    Discourse is a 100% open-source community discussion platform that lets you run forums with topics, built-in real-time chat, and a plugin/theme ecosystem.

    48K
  3. #3 · chatwoot/chatwoot

    chatwoot

    Chatwoot is an open-source, self-hosted customer support platform that unifies live chat, email, and social channels (WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Telegram, Line, SMS) into one inbox, positioned as an alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, and Salesforce Service Cloud.

    37.9K
  1. 4

    select2

    25.9Kselect2/select2 · JavaScript

    Select2 is a jQuery-based replacement for standard HTML select boxes. It upgrades plain dropdowns with searching, remote data sets, and pagination of results.

  2. 5

    gitlabhq

    24.6Kgitlabhq/gitlabhq · Ruby

    This is GitLab Community Edition, an open-source platform for managing Git repositories with merge requests, issue tracking, wikis, and built-in CI/CD pipelines, used by more than 100,000 organizations.

  3. 6

    devise

    24.4Kheartcombo/devise · Ruby

    Devise is a flexible, modular authentication solution for Ruby on Rails, built on top of Warden. It covers sign-up, sign-in, password recovery and more through optional modules you enable per model.

  4. 7

    forem

    22.8Kforem/forem · Ruby

    Forem is open-source software for building communities — it is the platform that powers dev.to. You run it to create your own space where members publish articles, join discussions, and build profiles.

  5. 8

    sails

    22.8Kbalderdashy/sails · JavaScript

    Sails.js is a realtime MVC web framework for Node.js, designed to make it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade apps and APIs, with a structure inspired by Ruby on Rails.

  6. 9

    bootswatch

    14.7Kthomaspark/bootswatch · JavaScript

    Bootswatch is a collection of free, open-source themes for Bootstrap, letting you swap Bootstrap's default look for pre-built styles like Slate, Flatly, or Cyborg.

  7. 10

    diaspora

    13.7Kdiaspora/diaspora · Ruby

    diaspora* is a privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network: instead of one company-owned platform, it is a network of many independent servers (pods) run by different people.

  8. 11

    sidekiq

    13.6Ksidekiq/sidekiq · Ruby

    Sidekiq is a background job system for Ruby: it runs slow work like emails or uploads out-of-band, using threads to handle many jobs at the same time in the same process.

  9. 12

    bootstrap-sass

    12.5Ktwbs/bootstrap-sass · SCSS

    It is the official Sass port of Bootstrap, providing Bootstrap 2 and 3 styles, mixins, and JavaScript as Sass/SCSS files instead of LESS.

  10. 13

    dawarich

    10.7KFreika/dawarich · Ruby

    Dawarich is a self-hostable web app that replaces Google Timeline: it tracks your location history, shows it on an interactive map, and analyzes your travels.

  11. 14

    reactionview

    531marcoroth/reactionview · Ruby

    ReActionView makes the HTML+ERB templates you already have in Rails reactive on the client, without adopting a separate JavaScript framework, API layer, or build step. State lives in an HTML attribute and the browser updates the page, calling back to the server only when it actually needs to.

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