Hello everyone!
Yesterday I was looking for some unmaintained open source Ruby project to put some hours in and turns out they are quite hard to find.
So I started listing and came up with a small collection.
I'm not thinking about building a huge list of projects, but to help those projects to meet their new maintainers.
Any help will be awesome!
The github repo is here: [https://github.com/attics/ruby\_attic](https://github.com/attics/ruby_attic)
You’re a good person
Great idea!
What’s the best way to get project for maintaining? I mean, procedures?
you are good man
Couple of projects worth being maintained (but are not)
[https://github.com/benignware/schedulable](https://github.com/benignware/schedulable)
[https://github.com/jekuno/milia](https://github.com/jekuno/milia)
Here’s a big one:
`paperclip` is unmaintained in lieu of `ActiveStorage`. For many upgrading Rails to 6.x with small projects, changing over from `paperclip` to `ActiveStorage` or another upload system (like `shrine`) isn’t that big of a deal. However, large, long-running projects that have hundreds of thousands of paperclip uploads is not an easy process (and quite expensive to maintain a fallback when using something like S3).
I’d love to see someone branch off and create a variant (much like `cancan` => `cancancan`) to maintain compatibility in the years to come.
I don’t know if this might be interesting within the context of unmaintained gems.
https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/
This page lists a lot of ruby gems categorizes them and show the ‚health‘ of the gem as well which indicates if the gem is still maintained.
You can check [https://github.com/markets/awesome-ruby/](https://github.com/markets/awesome-ruby/). I know the maintainer rejects adding unmaintained gems, but there might be some of them that became unmaintained through the time.
I hope that the countries gem is still being mantained. Last time I checked there hasn’t been any activity since 5 months and 30 pulls and fixes requests pending. I needed to fork it
A note about database_cleaner. If you move from rspec feature tests to Rails system tests you can use transactions again, and the gem becomes mostly irrelevant.
sorry, what is the difference between maintainers and contributers?
Lol can you add [https://github.com/netzke/netzke](https://github.com/netzke/netzke) to this?
This is a great idea!