Rails ​

OSS Rails apps ​

• HotTable - Minimal Airtable clone built with Rails and HotWire.

Notes ​

• Render.com can host Rails code bases nicely
• I found in Rails that my controllers stopped mapping 1:1 to my models very quickly, but rather mapped to the URL of the UI.

Links ​

• RailsConf 2019 - Rethinking the View Layer with Components by Joel Hawksley (2019)
• dev.to source code - Where programmers share ideas and help each other grow.
• Real World Rails - Real World Rails applications and their open source codebases for developers to learn from.
• Production Rails - Best practices for running Rails in production.
• React-Rails - Integrate React.js with Rails views and controllers, the asset pipeline, or webpacker.
• StimulusReflex - Build reactive applications with the Rails tooling you already know and love. (Docs) (HN)
• Boring Rails
• When Should You Not Use Rails? (2020) (Lobsters) (HN)
• Lobsters Rails Code
• Introduction to Ruby on Rails Patterns and Anti-patterns (2020)
• How Shopify reduced storefront response times with a rewrite (2020) (HN)
• A Site Reborn
• Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify’s Monolith (2020) (HN)
• Rails Concerns: To Concern Or Not To Concern (2020) (HN)
• Rails Performance - Monitor performance of you Rails applications.
• railsnew.io - Simplest way to generate a new Rails app with (or without) all the bells and whistles.
• Rails Common WTFs
• HatchBox - Build, deploy, and manage Rails apps.
• Guide to Reactive Rails
• Rails Style Guide - Community-driven Ruby on Rails style guide. (Docs) (RuboCop Rails)
• React on Rails - Integration of React + Webpack + Rails + rails/webpacker including server-side rendering of React.
• Ruby on Rails in a Week (2020) (HN)
• How to GraphQL with Ruby, Rails, Active Record, and No N+1 (2020) (HN)
• Introduction to Ruby on Rails Patterns and Anti-patterns (2020)
• Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails (2020) (HN) (Lobsters)
• Data pipelines in Ruby on Rails (2020)
• Matestack - Reactive UIs in pure Ruby. (HN) (GitHub)
• Will Johnson Blog - Covers Rails development.
• Ruby on Rails: Still the Best Web App Framework for Most Teams (2020) (Lobsters)
• Rails & Next.js Project Skeleton
• Rails 6.1.0 (2020) (HN)
• Encapsulating Ruby on Rails views (2020)
• How I Upgrade Ruby on Rails (2020) (Lobsters)
• Rails Tutorial
• Rails Settings Cached - Global settings for your Rails application.
• Fie - Rails-centric frontend framework running over a permanent WebSocket connection.
• Kuby - Convention over configuration approach for deploying Rails apps. (Code)
• Forest Admin in Rails - Provides an off-the-shelf administration panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.
• testfixtures - Ruby on Rails like test fixtures for Go. Write tests against a real database.
• FastRuby.io - Rails Upgrade Service.
• Engems - Rails component-based architecture on top of engines and gems.
• Tokenable - Rails gem that allows API-only applications a way to authenticate users.
• Rails: Postgres Partial Indexing (2021)
• Active Record, Postgres, Rails, and time travel (2021)
• Rails PG Extras - Rails PostgreSQL database performance insights. Locks, index usage, buffer cache hit ratios, vacuum stats and more.
• Ruby on Rails View Patterns and Anti-patterns (2021)
• There's No Such Thing as a Free Gem: How to roll your own Twitter OAuth flow in Rails (2021)
• Using Webpacker in Your Ruby on Rails Application — a Deep Dive (2021)
• A year of Rails (2021)
• Passwordless - Authentication for your Rails app without the icky-ness of passwords.
• RailsAdmin - Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data.
• Bullet - Help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading.
• Rails Best Practices (2021)
• Prosopite - Rails N+1 queries auto-detection with zero false positives / false negatives.
• Turbo Native for iOS
• Drifting Ruby - Ruby on Rails Screencasts for Web Developers.
• My Ruby on Rails stack for side projects in 2021
• Rails: How to Reduce Friction at the Authorization Layer (2021)
• Noticed - Notifications for Ruby on Rails applications.
• GoRails - Learn Ruby on Rails.
• Rails Bytes - Templates to enrich your Ruby on Rails apps.
• Jumpstart Pro - Ruby on Rails SaaS Template.
• Why Write Rails View Tests (2021)
• How to Build a Web App with and without Rails Libraries (2021)
• What is a Rails model? (2021)
• Rails Testing for Beginners
• Ruby on Rails Controller Patterns and Anti-patterns (2021)
• Hotwire: Reactive Rails with no JavaScript? (2021)
• Dead simple Rails monitoring (2021)
• The room where it happens: How Rails gets made (2021) (Lobsters)
• How I organize my Rails apps (2021)
• Cells - View components for Ruby and Rails.
• Designing and Launching New Features in Rails (2021)
• Active Record Encryption in Rails 7 (2021)
• Kubernetes & Rails: The Definitive Guide (2021)
• Rails 6 with Webpacker 6, Tailwind 2 with JIT, Postcss 8 and some default setup (2021) (HN)
• Ruby on Rails: View Components, Storybook and Tailwind - a match made in heaven? (2021) (HN)
• Rails Mini Profiler - Performance profiling for Rails, made simple.
• From Paperclip to Active Storage: An incremental, zero-downtime approach (2021)
• OpenSourceRails.org - Curated list of great open-source Ruby on Rails applications. (Code)
• How to build a search engine with Ruby on Rails: Introducing the Whereable design pattern (2021) (HN)
• Stripe::Rails - Rails Engine for integrating with Stripe.
• Importmap for Rails - Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without transpiling or bundling.
• Propshaft - Asset pipeline library for Rails. (Intro) (Reddit)
• Active Event Store - Rails Event Store in a more Rails way.
• Optimistic Locking in Rails REST APIs (2021)
• Ahoy - Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails.
• A Love Letter to Ruby and Rails (2021) (HN)
• AnyCable - Build lightning fast, reliable real-time applications with Ruby and Rails. (GitHub) (Code)
• Esbuild Rails plugin
• Example Rails + Docker app
• Packwerk - Ruby gem used to enforce boundaries and modularize Rails applications.
• Bootsnap - Boot large Ruby/Rails apps faster.
• On Rails (2021)
• rails.new - From New Mac to Rails Development in 11 Minutes. (Tweet)
• Devise - Flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden.
• Rails 7.0: Fulfilling a vision (2021) (HN)
• From Node to Ruby on Rails (2021) (HN)
• What's New in Rails 7 (2021)
• Derailed Benchmarks - Series of things you can use to benchmark a Rails or Ruby app.
• Logidze - Database changes log for Rails.
• Rails: Postgres Native Partitioning (2022)
• Rails Feature Flags: Now So Flippin' Easy You Won't Believe It (2021)
• Arproxy - Proxy between ActiveRecord and database adapter.
• Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021) (HN)
• Rails and its Ruby dialect (2022) (Lobsters) (HN)
• Dynamic forms with Turbo (2022)
• Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs (2022) (HN)
• Lamby - Simple Rails & AWS Lambda Integration.
• Simply integrating Svelte into Rails (2021)
• Turbo Streams Tic Tac Toe (Code)
• clearbnb - building a vacation rental platform (2021)
• Rails 7 application inside Docker on macOS (2022)
• Rails 7 on Docker demo application - Working Rails 7 demo application without JavaScript bundling, running in Docker. No node.js or webpack.
• Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord ConnectionPools (2022) (HN)
• The In-depth Guide to ActiveRecord load_async in Rails 7 (2022)
• Rails 7 application inside Docker on macOS: Part two - database and Mutagen (2022)
• Turbo Rails - Use Turbo in your Ruby on Rails app.
• Stimulus for Rails
• ViewComponent - Framework for building reusable, testable & encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails. (Docs)
• Senior Rails developer AMA (2022)
• Goldiloader - Just the right amount of Rails eager loading.
• Mailkick - Email subscriptions for Rails.
• ActiveRecord::PostgresEnum - Adds migration and schema.rb support to PostgreSQL enum data types.
• ActiveInteraction - Manages application-specific business logic. It's an implementation of the command pattern in Ruby.
• TurboFlash - Automagically include your flash messages in your Ruby on Rails Hotwire TurboStream responses.
• RSpec for Rails
• Rails-docker-box, or developing Rails within a dockerized environment (2022)
• Intro to Thread-Safety in Ruby on Rails (2022)
• User notifications with Rails, Noticed, and Hotwire (2022)
• Bullet Train Rails Template (Code) (Twitter) (HN)
• Advanced topics in Rails (2022)
• Semantic Logger - Feature rich logging framework, and replacement for existing Ruby & Rails loggers.
• Responders - Set of Rails responders to dry up your application.
• Hotwire::Livereload - Live reload for Hotwire Rails apps.
• Primer ViewComponents - ViewComponents for the Primer Design System.
• Brakeman - Static analysis tool which checks Ruby on Rails applications for security vulnerabilities.
• Ruby on Whales: Dockerizing Ruby and Rails development (2022)
• Hotrails - Learn modern Ruby on Rails with Hotwire.
• PgSearch - Builds ActiveRecord named scopes that take advantage of PostgreSQL’s full text search.
• Simplify Rails Views Using ViewComponents with Tailwind CSS and RSpec (2022)
• Lookbook - Native development UI for ViewComponent.
• maybe_later - Run code after the current Rack response or Rails action completes.
• notifications-rails - Flexible notification library supporting the delivery to external services, rendering in various environments, and user configuration by category.
• Performance at GitHub: deferring stats with rack.after_reply (2022)
• Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant? (2022)
• Spyke - Interact with REST services in an ActiveRecord-like manner.
• Rails Devs - Reverse job board for Ruby on Rails developers.
• 20 in 20 Ruby on Rails challenge
• N1Loader - Loader to solve N+1 issues for good. Highly recommended for GraphQL API.
• Hybrid development Docker Compose setup for Rails (2022)
• Ruby and Ruby on Rails bookmarks collection
• Lograge - Taming Rails' Default Request Logging.
• Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at Gitlab (2022) (HN)
• Avo - Configuration-based, no-maintenance, extendable Ruby on Rails admin. (Code) (HN)
• Lockbox - Modern encryption for Ruby and Rails.
• Tomo - Friendly CLI for deploying Rails apps.
• Motion - Reactive frontend UI components for Rails in pure Ruby.
• StoreModel - Work with JSON-backed attributes as ActiveRecord-ish models.
• Ruby on Rails: 3 tips for deleting data at scale (2022)
• A Single file Rails Application (2022) (Lobsters)
• Simplify your model code in Rails by avoiding association pollution (2022)
• Security Best Practices for Your Rails Application (2022)
• ViewComponent in the Wild: building modern Rails front ends (2022)
• RouteTranslator - Gem to allow you to manage the translations of your app routes with a simple dictionary format.
• Crunchy Bridge's Ruby Back End: Sorbet, Tapioca, and Parlour (2022) (HN)
• Vanilla Rails is plenty (2022)
• How Effective are Classic Lookup Optimizations for Rails Apps? (2022)
• Ruby concurrency is hard: how I became a Ruby on Rails contributor (2022)
• Lamby Cookiecutter - AWS SAM Cookiecutter to Quick Start Rails & Lambda.
• Database Performance Optimization and Scaling in Rails (2022)
• Quick intro to ReflexBehaviors (2022)
• The Basics of Receiving Webhooks in Rails (2022)
• HTML5 Canvas on Rails
• An Overview Of Upcoming Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features (2022) (HN)
• Docked Rails CLI - Running Rails from Docker for easy start to development.
• Handling Stripe Webhooks with Rails (2022)
• Rails Authentication from Scratch (2022) (HN)
• Ask HN: Who’s using Ruby for web development, without Ruby on Rails? (2023)
• Gemfile of dreams: the libraries we use to build Rails apps (2023)
• Ruby on Jets - Like Rails but serverless. (HN)
• Safe PG Migrations - ActiveRecord migrations for Postgres made safe.
• Rails on Docker · Fly (2023) (HN)
• Administration Zero - Administration system generator for Rails applications.
• Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails (2023) (HN)
• GoodJob - Multithreaded, Postgres-based, ActiveJob backend for Ruby on Rails.
• Rails Cheat Sheet
• Organize Business Logic in Your Ruby on Rails Application (2023)
• Push to Subscribe (2023)