Trending Projects for February 27, 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.

dalli

High performance memcached client for Ruby

faraday

HTTP/REST API client library.

simple_form

Forms made easy!

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.

braintree

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

awesome_print

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

devise

Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden

capybara

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

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.

activemodel

A toolkit for building modeling frameworks like Active Record. Rich support for attributes, callbacks, validations, serialization, internationalization, and testing.

railties

Rails internals: application bootup, plugins, generators, and rake tasks.

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.

json

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

bson

A fully featured BSON specification implementation in Ruby

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 ...

mixlib-config

A class based configuration library

mixlib-cli

A simple mixin for CLI interfaces, including option parsing

mocha

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

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

spreadsheet

As of version 0.6.0, only Microsoft Excel compatible spreadsheets are supported

httparty

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

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/

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.

term-ansicolor

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

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].

highline

A high-level IO library that provides validation, type conversion, and more for command-line interfaces. HighLine also includes a complete menu system that can crank out anything from simple list selection to complete shells with just minutes of work.

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.

net-sftp

A pure Ruby implementation of the SFTP client protocol

sinatra

Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.

rdoc

RDoc produces HTML and command-line documentation for Ruby projects. RDoc includes the +rdoc+ and +ri+ tools for generating and displaying documentation from the command-line.

activeresource

REST on Rails. Wrap your RESTful web app with Ruby classes and work with them like Active Record models.

actionpack

Web apps on Rails. Simple, battle-tested conventions for building and testing MVC web applications. Works with any Rack-compatible server.

activerecord

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.

actionmailer

Email on Rails. Compose, deliver, and test emails using the familiar controller/view pattern. First-class support for multipart email and attachments.

activesupport

A toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework. Rich support for multibyte strings, internationalization, time zones, and testing.

rails

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.

cucumber

Behaviour Driven Development with elegance and joy

sequel

The Database Toolkit for Ruby

test-unit

test-unit (Test::Unit) is unit testing framework for Ruby, based on xUnit principles. These were originally designed by Kent Beck, creator of extreme programming software development methodology, for Smalltalk's SUnit. It allows writing tests, checking results and automated testing in Ruby.

net-ssh

Net::SSH: a pure-Ruby implementation of the SSH2 client protocol. It allows you to write programs that invoke and interact with processes on remote servers, via SSH2.

rmagick

RMagick is an interface between Ruby and ImageMagick.

hoe

Hoe is a rake/rubygems helper for project Rakefiles. It helps you manage, maintain, and release your project and includes a dynamic plug-in system allowing for easy extensibility. Hoe ships with plug-ins for all your usual project tasks including rdoc generation, testing, packaging, deployment, and announcement. See class rdoc for help. Hint: `ri Hoe` or any of the plugins listed below. For e...

fxruby

FXRuby is the Ruby binding to the FOX GUI toolkit.