Trending Projects for May 15, 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

pdf-reader

The PDF::Reader library implements a PDF parser conforming as much as possible to the PDF specification from Adobe

ohai

Ohai profiles your system and emits JSON

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.

mixlib-log

A gem that provides a simple mixin for log functionality

chef

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

mail

A really Ruby Mail handler.

spreadsheet

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

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.

pg

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

term-ansicolor

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

authlogic

An unobtrusive ruby authentication library based on ActiveRecord.