Trending Projects for February 06, 2011

Discover libraries that are gaining popularity within the Ruby community. You can find an overview of how we calculate these in our documentation.

sqlite3

Ruby library to interface with the SQLite3 database engine (http://www.sqlite.org). Precompiled binaries are available for common platforms for recent versions of Ruby.

xpath

XPath is a Ruby DSL for generating XPath expressions

omniauth

A generalized Rack framework for multiple-provider authentication.

faraday

HTTP/REST API client library.

braintree

Resources and tools for developers to integrate Braintree's global payments platform.

tzinfo

TZInfo provides access to time zone data and allows times to be converted using time zone rules.

fog

The Ruby cloud services library. Supports all major cloud providers including AWS, Rackspace, Linode, Blue Box, StormOnDemand, and many others. Full support for most AWS services including EC2, S3, CloudWatch, SimpleDB, ELB, and RDS.

i18n

New wave Internationalization support for Ruby.

capybara

Capybara is an integration testing tool for rack based web applications. It simulates how a user would interact with a website

devise

Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden

warden

An authentication library compatible with all Rack-based frameworks

mail

A really Ruby Mail handler.

awesome_print

Great Ruby debugging companion: pretty print Ruby objects to visualize their structure. Supports custom object formatting via plugins

addressable

Addressable is an alternative implementation to the URI implementation that is part of Ruby's standard library. It is flexible, offers heuristic parsing, and additionally provides extensive support for IRIs and URI templates.

delayed_job

Delayed_job (or DJ) encapsulates the common pattern of asynchronously executing longer tasks in the background. It is a direct extraction from Shopify where the job table is responsible for a multitude of core tasks.

selenium-webdriver

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.

json

This is a JSON implementation as a Ruby extension in C.

newrelic_rpm

New Relic is a performance management system, developed by New Relic, Inc (http://www.newrelic.com). New Relic provides you with deep information about the performance of your web application as it runs in production. The New Relic Ruby agent is dual-purposed as a either a Gem or plugin, hosted on https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent/

faker

Faker, a port of Data::Faker from Perl, is used to easily generate fake data: names, addresses, phone numbers, etc.

ohai

Ohai profiles your system and emits JSON

thor

Thor is a toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces.

resque

Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later. Background jobs can be any Ruby class or module that responds to perform. Your existing classes can easily be converted to background jobs or you can create new classes specifically to do work. Or, you can do both. Resque is heavily ...

redis

A Ruby client that tries to match Redis' API one-to-one, while still providing an idiomatic interface.

mixlib-log

A gem that provides a simple mixin for log functionality

archive-tar-minitar

'archive-tar-minitar' has been deprecated; just install 'minitar'. The minitar library is a pure-Ruby library that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar(1) archive files. This is release 0.12. This is likely the last revision before 1.0. minitar (previously called Archive::Tar::Minitar) is based heavily on code originally written by Mauricio Julio Fernández Pradier for the rpa-base proj...

rspec-rails

rspec-rails integrates the Rails testing helpers into RSpec.

bundler

Bundler manages an application's dependencies through its entire life, across many machines, systematically and repeatably

bson

A fully featured BSON specification implementation in Ruby

friendly_id

FriendlyId is the "Swiss Army bulldozer" of slugging and permalink plugins for Active Record. It lets you create pretty URLs and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids.

Pg is the Ruby interface to the PostgreSQL RDBMS. It works with PostgreSQL 9.3 and later.

ZenTest

ZenTest provides 4 different tools: zentest, unit_diff, autotest, and multiruby. zentest scans your target and unit-test code and writes your missing code based on simple naming rules, enabling XP at a much quicker pace. zentest only works with Ruby and Minitest or Test::Unit. There is enough evidence to show that this is still proving useful to users, so it stays. unit_diff is a command-line...

activemerchant

Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library used in and sponsored by Shopify. It is written by Tobias Luetke, Cody Fauser, and contributors. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.

term-ansicolor

This library uses ANSI escape sequences to control the attributes of terminal output

mocha

Mocking and stubbing library with JMock/SchMock syntax, which allows mocking and stubbing of methods on real (non-mock) classes.

httparty

Makes http fun! Also, makes consuming restful web services dead easy.

thinking-sphinx

An intelligent layer for ActiveRecord (via Rails and Sinatra) for the Sphinx full-text search tool.

stringex

Some [hopefully] useful extensions to Ruby's String class. Stringex is made up of three libraries: ActsAsUrl [permalink solution with better character translation], Unidecoder [Unicode to ASCII transliteration], and StringExtensions [miscellaneous helper methods for the String class].

ffi

Ruby FFI library

rake

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. No XML files to edit. No quirky Makefile syntax to worry about (is that a tab or a space?) * Users can specify tasks with prerequisites. * Rake supports ...

curb

Curb (probably CUrl-RuBy or something) provides Ruby-language bindings for the libcurl(3), a fully-featured client-side URL transfer library. cURL and libcurl live at http://curl.haxx.se/

nokogiri

Nokogiri (鋸) makes it easy and painless to work with XML and HTML from Ruby. It provides a sensible, easy-to-understand API for reading, writing, modifying, and querying documents. It is fast and standards-compliant by relying on native parsers like libxml2, libgumbo, or xerces.

rubygems-update

A package (also known as a library) contains a set of functionality that can be invoked by a Ruby program, such as reading and parsing an XML file. We call these packages 'gems' and RubyGems is a tool to install, create, manage and load these packages in your Ruby environment. RubyGems is also a client for RubyGems.org, a public repository of Gems that allows you to publish a Gem that c...

chef

A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.

mongo

A pure-Ruby driver for connecting to, querying, and manipulating MongoDB databases. Officially developed and supported by MongoDB, with love for the Ruby community.