Trending Projects for May 22, 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...

xpath

XPath is a Ruby DSL for generating XPath expressions

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.

tilt

Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines

icalendar

Implements the iCalendar specification (RFC-5545) in Ruby. This allows for the generation and parsing of .ics files, which are used by a variety of calendaring applications.

chef

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

warden

An authentication library compatible with all Rack-based frameworks

rails_best_practices

a code metric tool for rails codes, written in Ruby.

mail

A really Ruby Mail handler.

spreadsheet

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

rspec-expectations

rspec-expectations provides a simple, readable API to express expected outcomes of a code example.

money

A Ruby Library for dealing with money and currency conversion.

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.

term-ansicolor

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

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.

mini_magick

Manipulate images with minimal use of memory via ImageMagick

rspec-rails

rspec-rails integrates the Rails testing helpers into RSpec.

authlogic

An unobtrusive ruby authentication library based on ActiveRecord.

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.