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OpenSrc lists 22 Ruby repositories with open issues for new contributors, and 14 of them are first-PR friendly. Between them they have 579 open good first issues and 132 help-wanted issues. The median welcome score is 72/100, and the best-scored right now are github-linguist/linguist, lobsters/lobsters and manyfold3d/manyfold. Most are about DevOps & Cloud, Databases and Web Frontend.

22 repos by best score

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  • github-linguist/linguist

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

    141good first issues+1 help wanted
    • Ruby
    • Field: Data Science
    • Stars:13.7K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~3h
    Score93 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • lobsters/lobsters

    Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion

    124good first issues
    • Ruby
    • Stars:4.8K
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~15h
    Score92 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • manyfold3d/manyfold

    A self-hosted digital asset manager for 3d print files.

    65good first issues+3 help wanted
    • Ruby
    • Field: Graphics
    • Stars:2.2K
    • AGPL-3.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~3d
    Score90 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • AnjanJ/rails_error_dashboard

    Self-hosted error tracking for Rails - zero recurring cost, full data ownership.

    13good first issues+9 help wanted
    • Ruby
    • Field: Observability
    • Field: Editors
    • Stars:92
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~21h
    Score87 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • openSUSE/open-build-service

    Build and distribute Linux packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way #obs

    11good first issues
    • Ruby
    • Field: DevOps
    • Field: OS
    • Stars:1.1K
    • GPL-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~6h
    Score82 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • EBWiki/EBWiki

    repository of police abuse cases against people of color

    24good first issues+1 help wanted
    • Ruby
    • Stars:83
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score80 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • dependabot/dependabot-core

    🤖 Dependabot's core logic for creating update PRs.

    6good first issues+3 help wanted
    • Ruby
    • Field: DevOps
    • Stars:5.8K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score79 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • scarpe-team/scarpe

    Scarpe - shoes but running on webview

    14good first issues
    • Ruby
    • Stars:228
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score77 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • chatwoot/chatwoot

    Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce…

    9good first issues
    • Ruby
    • Field: DevOps
    • Stars:37.3K
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score75 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • benwbrum/fromthepage

    FromThePage is a wiki-like application for crowdsourcing transcription of handwritten documents.

    52good first issues
    • Ruby
    • Stars:186
    • AGPL-3.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score73 out of 100 contributor score, welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • AllYourBot/hostedgpt

    An open version of ChatGPT you can host anywhere or run locally.

    9good first issues
    • Ruby
    • Stars:511
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score72 out of 100 contributor score, welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • WikiEducationFoundation/WikiEduDashboard

    Wiki Education Foundation's Wikipedia course dashboard system

    4good first issues+29 help wanted
    • Ruby
    • Stars:430
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score72 out of 100 contributor score, welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • riscv/riscv-unified-db

    Monorepo containing a machine-readable database of the RISC-V specification and artifact generation tools

    11good first issues
    • Ruby
    • Field: Databases
    • Stars:220
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~30h
    Score70 out of 100 contributor score, welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • denny/ShinyCMS-ruby

    ShinyCMS is an open-source CMS built in Ruby on Rails, with support for themes, plugins, and cloud hosting…

    8good first issues+10 help wanted
    • Ruby
    • Field: DevOps
    • Field: Databases
    • Stars:38
    • GPL-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score70 out of 100 contributor score, welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • hitobito/hitobito

    A web application to manage complex group hierarchies with members, events and a lot more.

    9good first issues+6 help wanted
    • Ruby
    • Field: Web Frontend
    • Stars:479
    • AGPL-3.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~7d
    Score69 out of 100 contributor score, welcoming

  • errbit/errbit

    The open source error catcher that's Airbrake API compliant :ukraine:

    9good first issues+5 help wanted
    • Ruby
    • Field: Observability
    • Field: Backend
    • Stars:4.3K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~30d
    Score68 out of 100 contributor score, welcoming

  • gems-uff/sapos

    SAPOS main goal is to ease the management of information related to graduate programs such as enrollments…

    16good first issues
    • Ruby
    • Stars:33
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score68 out of 100 contributor score, welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • rubocop/rubocop

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

    4good first issues+3 help wanted
    • Ruby
    • Field: Compilers
    • Stars:12.9K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~30d
    Score66 out of 100 contributor score, welcoming

  • freeats/freeats

    No description

    24good first issues
    • Ruby
    • Stars:45
    • MIT
    Score66 out of 100 contributor score, welcoming

  • decidim/decidim

    The participatory democracy framework. A generator and multiple gems made with Ruby on Rails

    5good first issues
    • Ruby
    • Field: DevOps
    • Stars:1.8K
    • AGPL-3.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~30d
    Score65 out of 100 contributor score, welcoming

  • avo-hq/avo

    The Essential Toolkit for building Internal Tools and admin panels with Ruby on Rails

    3good first issues+41 help wanted
    • Ruby
    • Field: Web Frontend
    • Stars:1.8K
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~30d
    Score59 out of 100 contributor score, welcoming

  • e621ng/e621ng

    No description

    18good first issues+21 help wanted
    • Ruby
    • Stars:568
    • replies in ~24d
    Score59 out of 100 contributor score, welcoming