Ruby Top 50

Top 50 most starred Ruby repositories on GitHub

Ruby rankings: how to read the ecosystem behind the stars

Ruby, designed for developer happiness, powers Ruby on Rails — one of the most influential web frameworks ever created. While its growth has plateaued compared to newer languages, Ruby remains a productive choice for startups and web applications where developer velocity is paramount.

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Ruby on Rails established many conventions now standard across all web frameworks: MVC architecture, convention over configuration, database migrations, and RESTful routing. The Ruby ecosystem excels in web development, DevOps (Chef, Puppet, Vagrant), and scripting.

Use the language page to compare projects that share the same runtime, syntax, and toolchain assumptions. The ranking is strongest as a shortlist generator: it helps you spot the repositories that keep defining the language community, but you still need to confirm maintenance, release cadence, and whether the project solves your actual use case.

For the source rules behind this language view, review Methodology & Editorial Standards

Ruby on Rails

58.3K stars·22.2K forks·Yesterday

The personal finance app for everyone

54.1K stars·5.5K forks·8 months ago

:globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby

51.4K stars·10.3K forks·3 days ago

Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

49.8K stars·7.4K forks·Today

Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!

49.1K stars·4.2K forks·Yesterday

🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

47.5K stars·11.1K forks·Today

A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.

46.8K stars·8.9K forks·Today

🚀 The easiest way to automate building and releasing your iOS and Android apps

41.4K stars·6K forks·4 days ago

API Documentation Browser

38.7K stars·2.6K forks·5 days ago

Metasploit Framework

37.9K stars·14.8K forks·Yesterday

A curated list of engineering blogs

37.7K stars·2K forks·1 years ago

A curated list of awesome awesomeness

33.4K stars·3.6K forks·1 years ago

Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬

28.5K stars·6.9K forks·Today

Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

27.1K stars·4.4K forks·3 days ago

A collaborative list of awesome Swift libraries and resources. Feel free to contribute!

26K stars·3.1K forks·2 days ago

Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.

24.3K stars·5.5K forks·2 days ago

GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com

24.3K stars·5.8K forks·Today
18Ruby

The Ruby Programming Language

23.5K stars·5.6K forks·Today

For empowering community 🌱

22.6K stars·4.1K forks·2 days ago

🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries

21.9K stars·11.4K forks·Today

Setup instructions for Le Wagon's students on their first day of AI Software Development Bootcamp

19.5K stars·1.6K forks·2 months ago

📮 A fully featured open source mail delivery platform for incoming & outgoing e-mail

16.4K stars·1.2K forks·4 days ago

Open-source headless eCommerce platform with REST API, TypeScript SDK, and Next.js storefront for cross-border, B2B or marketplace eCommerce.

15.3K stars·5.2K forks·Today

🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

15.2K stars·13.5K forks·Today

The Cocoa Dependency Manager.

14.8K stars·2.7K forks·1 months ago

OpenProject is the leading open source project management software.

14.8K stars·3.2K forks·Today

An uroboros program with 100+ programming languages

14.5K stars·569 forks·5 months ago

A simple, Git-powered wiki with a local frontend and support for many kinds of markup and content.

14.3K stars·1.6K forks·4 months ago

:city_sunrise: A collection of links for free stock photography, video and Illustration websites

14.1K stars·805 forks·2 months ago

Deploy web apps anywhere.

14K stars·698 forks·4 days ago

A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.

13.7K stars·2.9K forks·Today

Manage complex tmux sessions easily

13.5K stars·624 forks·Yesterday

Fluentd: Unified Logging Layer (project under CNCF)

13.5K stars·1.4K forks·1 weeks ago

Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby

13.5K stars·2.5K forks·2 days ago

Language Savant. If your repository's language is being reported incorrectly, send us a pull request!

13.4K stars·5.1K forks·3 weeks ago

A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.

12.9K stars·1.8K forks·1 weeks ago

A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide.

12.8K stars·3.1K forks·Today

Classy web-development dressed in a DSL (official / canonical repo)

12.4K stars·2.1K forks·1 months ago

Open source alternative to AWS. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, and IAM services.

12K stars·556 forks·Yesterday

Liquid markup language. Safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.

11.8K stars·1.5K forks·6 days ago

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

11.7K stars·1K forks·6 days ago

A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.

11.6K stars·3.2K forks·3 days ago

收集整理远程工作相关的资料

11.5K stars·891 forks·1 weeks ago

Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.

11.5K stars·1.1K forks·3 weeks ago

MIT视频公开课《计算机程序的构造和解释》中文化项目及课程学习资料搜集。

11.2K stars·1.5K forks·2 years ago

Acceptance test framework for web applications

10.1K stars·1.5K forks·4 months ago

An opinionated framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby.

10K stars·1.2K forks·Yesterday

The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.

9.7K stars·3.3K forks·1 weeks ago

WPScan WordPress security scanner. Written for security professionals and blog maintainers to test the security of their WordPress websites. Contact us via contact@wpscan.com

9.5K stars·1.3K forks·1 months ago

A guide for programming in style.

9.5K stars·1.4K forks·5 days ago

Ranking methodology

Rankings show the top 50 Ruby repositories by GitHub stars. Rails and its ecosystem dominate, reflecting Ruby's enduring strength in web application development.

Data is sourced from the GitHub REST API and updated daily. Rankings reflect cumulative star counts across each repository's lifetime and should be read as a discovery aid rather than a quality certification. See Methodology & Editorial Standards.