Self-hosted projects built with Ruby on Rails

Mastodon is an open-source, ActivityPub-compatible social network server for microblogging, offering federated timelines, moderation tools, media support, and APIs.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Threads+7

Huginn is an open-source automation platform that runs agents to monitor web data, process events, and trigger actions — self-hosted and extensible.

MITActively maintained

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IFTTT+17

Discourse is open-source forum software for community discussion, support, and knowledge sharing, with moderation tools, customization, and built-in chat.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Flarum Cloud+11

Chatwoot is an open-source customer support platform with a shared inbox for live chat, email, and messaging channels, plus automation, reporting, and a help center.

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Intercom+19

Self-hostable DocuSign alternative to create fillable forms and collect legally binding eSignatures with API and webhooks.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Docusign+13

OpenProject is an open source project management platform for planning, tracking, and collaborating on work with Gantt charts, agile boards, roadmaps, and time reporting.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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OpenProject (Cloud)+19

Open-source eCommerce platform for B2C and B2B with a modular architecture, headless APIs, and support for multi-store, multi-currency, and extensibility via extensions.

BSD-3-ClauseActively maintained

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Shopify+10

Open-source federated social network built around independently run pods, privacy via Aspects, and standard social features; implemented in Ruby on Rails.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Mastodon (mastodon.social)+6

Canvas LMS is an open-source learning management system for course delivery, assignments, grading, communication, and integrations for schools and universities.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Classroom+10

Open source, web-based helpdesk for managing customer support tickets across multiple channels like email, chat, phone, and social media.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Zendesk+19

Solidus is an open-source Ruby on Rails eCommerce framework with a powerful admin, REST API, and extensible architecture for building customizable online stores.

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VTEX+1

Octobox is a self-hostable GitHub notifications manager that adds archiving, starring, enhanced issue/PR context, filters, search, and keyboard-driven triage.

Open-source Ruby on Rails music streaming server that indexes a local music directory, provides web and mobile players, playlists, multi-user accounts, and Docker deployment.

MITActively maintained

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Plex+12

Stringer is a self-hosted RSS reader built on Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL, offering keyboard shortcuts and a Fever-compatible API for use with supported mobile clients.

MITActively maintained

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Feedly+7

Feedbin is a web-based RSS reader for organizing and reading feeds with full-text extraction, powerful search, filtering actions, and a REST-like API for clients.

MITActively maintained

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Feedly+19

OpenStreetMap is a community-built map of the world with a web interface and APIs for editing, browsing, and accessing open geographic data.

Loomio is a collaborative decision-making tool for group discussions, proposals, and polls, helping teams make transparent decisions asynchronously with a clear record.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Diligent Boards+16

Manyfold is a self-hosted web app to organize, preview, and share 3D models for 3D printing, with tagging, metadata, and disk reorganization tools.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Thingiverse+8

Open-source Ruby on Rails blogging and publishing platform (formerly Typo) with themes, plugins, multilingual support and an official demo.

MITActively maintained

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WordPress.com+9

Open source ecommerce marketplace for farmers, food producers, co-ops, and food hubs to sell local produce online and manage orders, customers, and distribution.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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MarketMan+2

Open-source Rails web app for David Allen's GTD: manage next actions, contexts, projects, tags, feeds and statistics; Docker-friendly and multi-user.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Todoist+16

OSEM (Open Source Event Manager) is a web app for managing conferences, including call for papers, scheduling, registration, ticketing, and event splash pages.

MITActively maintained

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pretalx Hosted+14

Private, self-hosted blogging app with Markdown editor, private RSS, built-in reader, and Docker/Postgres deployment options.

MITActively maintained

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Medium+9

Self-hosted meme search engine that indexes images with local AI captions and vector embeddings for fast semantic and keyword search, tagging, and filtering.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Google Photos+5

Self-hosted Ruby on Rails web interface to browse and manage Docker Registry (HTTP API v2) repositories, tags, and manifests, with optional tag deletion.

Open-source web application for complex organization hierarchies: members, events, courses, mailings and payments. Plugin-based, Rails-backed, community-driven.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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WildApricot+12

QPixel is a Ruby on Rails Q&A platform powering Codidact, supporting multiple communities, categories, Markdown content, voting and activity-based privileges.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Stack Overflow+5

Open-source archives information management application for accessioning, describing, preserving, and providing access to archival collections and digital objects.

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Omeka.net+19

Ruby on Rails document management server for uploading, organizing, encrypting and full-text searching PDF documents. Provides a REST API and mobile-friendly web UI.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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DocuWare+7

Ruby on Rails app for managing food cooperatives: product catalog, online ordering, accounting, member and job scheduling.

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MarketMan+14