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Url Shortener Engines
URL shortener engines are utilities that provide functionality for generating and managing shortened URLs within applications. These engines offer the ability to create compact URLs, track click analytics, and redirect users to the original long URLs. They simplify the process of URL shortening, allowing developers to efficiently handle URL transformations and improve user experience.
Active Record Sharding
Distribute read and write queries to your database across several database servers to help with scaling
Active Record Sortables
Simplify the sorting order of records in a database table.
File Uploads
Handle file uploads in Ruby-based web applications, including streamlined storage on cloud services, the extraction of file metadata and handling of post-processing tasks like resizing and cropping of images
Web App Frameworks
Software Frameworks that are designed to support the development of web applications including web services, web resources, and web APIs
Rails Search Engines
Supports search engines and full-text search.
Amazon Web Services
Official and community-built utilities for working with Amazon's AWS cloud services
SQL Database Adapters
Low-level adapters for interfacing with various SQL database servers
Structures
Projects for working with data structures such as vectors and data frames.
OpenAPI Tools (formerly Swagger)
Tools for creating, serving or testing with OpenAPI documentation or Swagger tooling
Active Record Bit Fields
Use an integer field to store a set of booleans using bitwise logic
Active Record Database Adapters
ActiveRecord comes with built-in support for SQLite, PostgreSQL and MySQL on the offical C-based Ruby implementation commonly referred to as "MRI". These extensions let you connect to other relational databases or use other Ruby implementations like JRuby.
Active Record User Stamping
Easily store the user identifiers for the creator and last updater of a record.
Aeronautics
Aviation data sources, flight tracking and so forth
Background Jobs
Process slow tasks asynchronously to keep response times low, improve fault-tolerance and aid with horizontal scaling
Calendars
A suite of libraries designed to seamlessly integrate calendar functionalities into Ruby on Rails applications.
Command Line Logger
Logging utility to output messages in the terminal specialized for CLI program (not generic app or system logger)
Code Metrics
Utilities to improve code quality by reporting common code smells like complexity, unsafe defaults, unused variables or stylistic inconsistencies
Connection Pooling
Connection Pools allow you to share a limited number of active connections to external services like databases between multiple threads per Ruby process
CouchDB Clients
Apache CouchDB is an open source NoSQL JSON document storage database with an HTTP API. These libraries enable you to interface
with it from Ruby.
Documentation Generators
Tools for creating API documentation of your Ruby software and it's exposed interfaces
Google Cloud
Official and community-built utilities for working with Google's Cloud services
Microsoft Azure
Official and community-built utilities for working with Microsoft's Azure cloud services
MongoDB Clients
MongoDB is a source-available NoSQL document database. These libraries allow you to interface with it.
Pagination
Split large data collections into subsets to display on multiple pages
Rails Captcha
Captchas help to establish that a user is human to protect websites from bots and spam by presenting challenges that are hard to solve for computers
Rails Search Filters
Simplify Rails queries and filtering
Ruby Core Extensions
Libraries that enhance Ruby's core classes like Hash or String with additional features
Scheduling
Execute tasks on a schedule
Scripting Frameworks
Libraries that simplify the writing of command-line interfaces for your Ruby programs
Service Objects
Libraries to isolate application domain logic into separate classes.
Strings
String tools for manipulation, decoding, encoding, verifying, generation, letter case, etc.
Web Servers
Expose HTTP-based services from Ruby. Usually these are used with a rack-based Ruby web framework.
Reports & Spreadsheets
Tools for parsing spreadsheets and creating reports in multiple formats.
Security Tools
Find and prevent security vulnerabilities with less effort
Active Record Named Scopes
Define reusable query methods that can be chained together to construct complex database queries.
Active Record Nesting
Model database records as nested data structures
Active Record Soft Delete
Keep deleted records in the database for auditing and restoring
API Builders
Tools for streamlined API development in Ruby
Business Logic Frameworks
Tools to help with Domain Driven Design approach and organize app's Control Flow.
Cassandra Clients
Apache Cassandra is a distributed open source NoSQL database. These libraries allow you to interface with it.
Concurrent Processing
Tools that simplify the writing of concurrent Ruby programs
Configuration Management
Configure your applications easily and securely
CSS Tools
Tools to make working with Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) easier
Daemonizing
Turn your program into a service running in the background
Daemon Management
Simplify the management of multiple processes
Data Migration
How to handle data migration when the database schema is changed
E-Mail Delivery
Easily send e-mails from your Ruby programs
Health Checks
Easing the setup of uptime health checks for your applications that can be used for monitoring and deployment automation
HTTP clients
Easily interact with HTTP-based services
JSON Parsers
JSON parsers convert data serialized in the popular JSON data exchange format to and from Ruby objects
MediaWiki Clients
Libraries for interacting with MediaWiki, the open source Wiki platform that is also used on Wikipedia
Mock API Servers
Applications allowing to mock API endpoints
Object-relational mapping
Libraries that map SQL database tables and rows to Ruby classes and objects in order to enable easy interaction with the data persistence layer from your program
User Authorization
Narrow down the visibility and accessibility of operations for users based on roles and similar access control patterns
Rails DB Bootstrapping
Easily insert and maintain seed data in the database.
Test Frameworks
Frameworks for writing automated tests for your software
Web Content Scrapers
Tools designed to extract and process data from websites efficiently
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A toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework. Rich support for multibyte strings, internationalization, time zones, and testing.
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minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting
TDD, BDD, mocking, and benchmarking.
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A toolkit for building modeling frameworks like Active Record. Rich support for attributes, callbacks, validations, serialization, internationalization, and testing.
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Web apps on Rails. Simple, battle-tested conventions for building and testing MVC web applications. Works with any Rack-compatible server.
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Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web framework optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It encourages beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.
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Bundler manages an application's dependencies through its entire life, across many machines, systematically and repeatably
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Bundler manages an application's dependencies through its entire life, across many machines, systematically and repeatably
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Structure many real-time application concerns into channels over a single WebSocket connection.
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Rake is a Make-like program implemented in Ruby. Tasks and dependencies are
specified in standard Ruby syntax.
Rake has the following features:
* Rakefiles (rake's version of Makefiles) are completely defined in standard Ruby syntax.
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Rack provides a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing
web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in
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Amazon Web Services Signature Version 4 signing library. Generates sigv4 signature for HTTP requests.
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Databases on Rails. Build a persistent domain model by mapping database tables to Ruby classes. Strong conventions for associations, validations, aggregations, migrations, and testing come baked-in.
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Diff::LCS computes the difference between two Enumerable sequences using the
McIlroy-Hunt longest common subsequence (LCS) algorithm. It includes utilities
to create a simple HTML diff output format and a standard diff-like tool.
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Email on Rails. Compose, deliver, and test emails using the familiar controller/view pattern. First-class support for multipart email and attachments.
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Simple, battle-tested conventions and helpers for building web pages.
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A simple Jekyll theme for words and pictures.
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Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator.
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Selenium implements the W3C WebDriver protocol to automate popular browsers.
It aims to mimic the behaviour of a real user as it interacts with the application's HTML.
It's primarily intended for web application testing, but any web-based task can automated.
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Official AWS Ruby gem for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). This gem is part of the AWS SDK for Ruby.
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Protocol Buffers are Google's data interchange format.
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