Trending Projects for May 01, 2011

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

sass

Ruby Sass is deprecated! See https://sass-lang.com/ruby-sass for details. Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an extension of CSS, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It's translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.

chunky_png

This pure Ruby library can read and write PNG images without depending on an external image library, like RMagick. It tries to be memory efficient and reasonably fast. It supports reading and writing all PNG variants that are defined in the specification, with one limitation: only 8-bit color depth is supported. It supports all transparency, interlacing and filtering option...

Platform

Hopefully robust platform sensing

ohai

Ohai profiles your system and emits JSON

mixlib-config

A class based configuration library

mixlib-cli

A simple mixin for CLI interfaces, including option parsing

chef

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

mongoid

Mongoid is an ODM (Object Document Mapper) Framework for MongoDB, written in Ruby.

mail

A really Ruby Mail handler.

bson

A fully featured BSON specification implementation in Ruby

bundler

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

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.

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.

thinking-sphinx

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

mini_magick

Manipulate images with minimal use of memory via ImageMagick

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...