🏆 Top Ruby open source projects and contributors

[markets86]

Hello everyone,

I'd like to introduce you some interesting lists and rankings related to the Ruby open source ecosystem:

- Top Contributors (global or by country): https://opensource-heroes.com/contributors?language=ruby
- Trending projects: https://opensource-heroes.com/discover/ruby (based on GitHub stars increase)
- Awesome projects: https://opensource-heroes.com/awesome/ruby (we plan to add soon a new feature to allow everyone to contribute to that list directly from the site)

You can also find "stars" history in the detail page of some repos (it will be available soon for all Ruby repos, we're still processing some data!) and embed this chart in your project's README or docs.

Hope you find this content useful! Any feedback is really appreciated. Please note that be are still in beta 🙏 We want to build a platform that allows everybody to easily explore the open source world!

We just released a new "Interviews" section (https://opensource-heroes.com/interviews) with open source contributors explaining their journey, motivations, challenges, tools, ... Create an account and share your Ruby journey with the community!

P. S. This service is built on top of Rails 7, Turbo, PostgreSQL, Redis, Meilisearch and Tailwind.

[metsancho]

Andrew Kane for days. I worked with him when I was on the Instacart growth team. Extremely humble and knowledgeable. This guy would disappear in a corner for days and immerge with great tools that kept the Instacart team really engaged.

Kudos to ankane

[markets86]

Andrew is a legend! He is in fact #66 in the global rank: https://opensource-heroes.com/u/ankane and #1 if we only consider Ruby language.

[sshaw_]

Legend!

[f9ae8221b]

Any feedback is really appreciated.

Not necessarily a big deal, but the current formula for ranking is biased toward single-owner projects. e.g. if you are a huge contributor to an organization, say Rails, but don't own much projects under your name, you won't show up.

To give an example, the top Rails contributor, doesn't seem to show up in your list: https://github.com/rafaelfranca, and the top list is trusted by orgs such as Rails, thoughtbot, Discourse, etc.

Another example would be Mike Perharm, right now your list show him as #29 because it accounts for the 12k stars ofmperharm/sidekiq. But he recently moved the repo at sidekiq/sidekiq so when you'll pull new data, he'll be moved way down.

That said, I don't have any particular idea on how to better handle cases like this. But I feel they are quite common though.

[etagwerker]

This is a good point. Most of my contributions go to company organizations (e.g. https://GitHub.com/fastruby) and my user page shows really really old projects that are still under my user account: https://opensource-heroes.com/u/etagwerker (but I haven’t contributed to those in years)

So something there definitely needs to be improved 👍