awesome-ruby

A categorized community-driven collection of awesome Ruby libraries, tools, frameworks and software. The essential Ruby to build modern Apps and Web Apps.

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• Admin Interface
• AI and LLMs
• Analytics
• API Builder and Discovery
• Assets
• Authentication and OAuth
• Authorization
• Automation
• Breadcrumbs
• Boilerplates & UI Kits
• Business logic
• Caching
• Captchas and anti-spam
• CLI Builder
• CLI Utilities
• Cloud
• CMS
• Code Analysis and Metrics
• Code Formatting
• Code Highlighting
• Code Loaders
• Coding Style Guides
• Concurrency and Parallelism
• Configuration
• Core Extensions
• Country Data
• CRM
• Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains
• Dashboards
• Data Processing and ETL
• Data Visualization
• Database Drivers
• Database Tools
• Date and Time Processing
• Debugging Tools
• Decorators
• Developer Tooling
• DevOps Tools
• Diff
• Discover
• Documentation
• E-Commerce and Payments
• Ebook
• Email
• Encryption
• Environment Management
• Error Handling
• Event Sourcing
• Feature Flippers and A/B Testing
• File Upload
• File System Listener
• Form Builder
• Game Development and Graphics
• Gem Generators
• Gem Servers
• Geolocation
• Git Tools
• GraphQL
• GUI
• HTML/XML Parsing
• HTTP Clients and tools
• Image Processing
• Implementations/Compilers
• Internationalization
• IRB
• Logging
• Machine Learning
• Markdown Processors
• Measurements
• Mobile Development
• Money
• Music and Sound
• Natural Language Processing
• Networking
• Notifications
• Optimizations
• ORM/ODM
• ORM/ODM Extensions
• Package Management
• Pagination
• PDF
• Performance Monitoring
• Presentation Programs
• Process Management and Monitoring
• Processes
• Profiler and Optimization
• QR
• Queues and Messaging
• Rails Application Generators
• Robotics
• RSS
• Serverless
• Scheduling
• Scientific
• Search
• Security
• Services and Apps
• SEO
• Social Networking
• Spreadsheets and Documents
• State Machines
• Static Site Generation
• Template Engine
• Testing
• Third-party APIs
• Type Signatures and Type Checking
• Video
• View components
• View helpers
• Web Crawling
• Web Frameworks
• Web Servers
• WebSocket

Admin Interface

• ActiveAdmin - A Ruby on Rails framework for creating elegant backends for website administration.
• ActiveScaffold - ActiveScaffold provides quick and powerful user interfaces for CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations for Rails applications. It's excellent for generating admin interfaces, managing Data-Heavy Applications, creating Widgets or for quick prototyping. ActiveScaffold is completly customizable and offers a bunch of additional features including searching, pagination, layout control and overrides of fields, forms and templates.
• Administrate - A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard, by Thoughtbot.
• Avo Admin for Rails - Avo is the modern approach to building an advanced admin panel that can be used by the entire organization. It has all the tools an admin panel needs and more. We have carefully made sure that you have all the escape hatches you need to ensure you can build your next admin panel for Ruby on Rails incredibly fast and easily.
• bhf - A simple to use Rails-Engine-Gem that offers an admin interface for trusted user.
• Hot Glue - Hot Glue takes a different approach to building both admin and user dashboards. It is a code generation tool like the Rails scaffold generator but with significantly more features. Instead of providing a lot of configuration options, Hot Glue can generate your code. Good for lists & CRUD views for both admin and user-facing dashboards.
• Madmin - A robust Admin Interface for Ruby on Rails apps
• MotorAdmin - A low-code Admin panel and Business Intelligence Rails engine. No DSL - configurable from the UI.
• RailsAdmin - A Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data.
• Trestle - A modern, responsive admin framework for Rails. Build a back-end in minutes that will grow with the needs of your application.

AI and LLMs

• anthropic-sdk-ruby - The official Ruby SDK for the Anthropic API, for building applications with Claude.
• langchain.rb - Library for building LLM-powered applications in Ruby.
• openai-ruby - The official Ruby SDK for the OpenAI API.
• RubyLLM - A delightful Ruby way to work with AI, providing one unified interface to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and other LLM providers.
• ruby-openai - OpenAI API + Ruby!
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • ruby-sdk - The official Ruby SDK for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), for building MCP servers and clients.
  • tidewave - MCP server for better agentic Rails development, runtime-level tools for your agent to talk to your running app.

Analytics

• ActiveAnalytics - First-party, privacy-focused traffic analytics for Ruby on Rails applications.
• Ahoy - A solid foundation to track visits and events in Ruby, JavaScript, and native apps.
• Impressionist - Rails Plugin that tracks impressions and page views.
• Legato - Model analytics reports and queries against the official Google Analytics Reporting API.
• Rack::Tracker - Rack middleware that can be hooked up to multiple services and exposing them in a unified fashion.
• Staccato - Track analytics into the official Google Analytics Collection API.

API Builder and Discovery

• ActiveModel::Serializers - JSON serialization of objects.
• Acts_As_Api - Easy And Fun, in creating XML/JSON responses in Rails 3,4,5 and 6.
• Alba - A JSON serializer for Ruby, JRuby and TruffleRuby.
• Blanket - A dead simple API wrapper.
• Blueprinter - Simple, Fast, and Declarative Serialization Library for Ruby.
• cache_crispies - Speedy Rails JSON serialization with built-in caching.
• Crepe - The thin API stack.
• EasyTalk - Define structured data models with a DSL that generates JSON Schema and ActiveModel validations from a single source of truth.
• Grape - An opinionated micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby.
• Her - an ORM that maps REST resources to Ruby objects. Designed to build applications that are powered by a RESTful API instead of a database.
• jbuilder - Create JSON structures via a Builder-style DSL.
• jsonapi-rb – Efficient and convenient JSON API (de)serialization library.
• jsonapi-serializer - A fast JSON:API serializer for Ruby Objects.
• JSONAPI::Resources - JSONAPI::Resources, or "JR", provides a framework for developing a server that complies with the JSON API specification