10 alternatives to devise
heartcombo/devise — Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden. (24,356 stars, MIT, auth, database).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 64 licence-cleared components from heartcombo/devise itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
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| 1 | maccman/saasy | 4.3 | MIT | 523 |
| 2 | archonic/limestone | 4.3 | MIT | 231 |
| 3 | zauberware/rails-devise-graphql | 4.3 | MIT | 284 |
| 4 | bullet-train-co/bullet_train | 5.7 | MIT | 1,891 |
| 5 | pay-rails/pay | 3.5 | MIT | 2,263 |
| 6 | nextauthjs/next-auth | 8.3 | ISC | 28,369 |
| 7 | better-auth/better-auth | 6.7 | MIT | 30,431 |
| 8 | excid3/noticed | 4.2 | MIT | 2,705 |
| 9 | yshmarov/moneygun | 7.3 | MIT | 253 |
| 10 | telegram-bot-rb/telegram-bot | 7.2 | MIT | 676 |
The alternatives in detail
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Rails SaaS and SSO solutionscore 4.3/10 · MIT permissive · 523 stars · 39 components · search them
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Boilerplate Rails 6 SaaS application with Webpack, Stimulus and Docker integration.score 4.3/10 · MIT permissive · 231 stars · 51 components · search them
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A Rails 6 boilerplate to create your next Saas product. Preloaded with graphQL, devise, JWT, CanCanCan, RailsAdmin, Rubocop, Rspec, i18n and more.score 4.3/10 · MIT permissive · 284 stars · 45 components · search them
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The Open Source Ruby on Rails SaaS Templatescore 5.7/10 · MIT permissive · 1,891 stars · 109 components · search them
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Payments for Ruby on Rails appsscore 3.5/10 · MIT permissive · 2,263 stars · 82 components · search them
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Authentication for the Web.
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The most comprehensive authentication framework
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Notifications for Ruby on Rails applicationsscore 4.2/10 · MIT permissive · 2,705 stars · 35 components · search them
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SHIP YOUR NEXT APP FAST! Rails 8 SaaS Multitenancy boilerplate. Users-Memberships-Organizations. Row-based. Set tenant based on URL params.score 7.3/10 · MIT permissive · 253 stars · 217 components · search them
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Ruby gem for building Telegram Bot with optional Rails integrationscore 7.2/10 · MIT permissive · 676 stars · 34 components · search them
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