Trending Projects for June 05, 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.

httpi

Common interface for Ruby's HTTP libraries

dalli

High performance memcached client for Ruby

carrierwave

Upload files in your Ruby applications, map them to a range of ORMs, store them on different backends.

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.

dragonfly

Dragonfly is a framework that enables on-the-fly processing for any content type. It is especially suited to image handling. Its uses range from image thumbnails to standard attachments to on-demand text generation.

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 ...

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.

awesome_print

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

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/

webmock

WebMock allows stubbing HTTP requests and setting expectations on HTTP requests.

responders

A set of Rails responders to dry up your application

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-expectations

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

i18n

New wave Internationalization support for Ruby.

money

A Ruby Library for dealing with money and currency conversion.

spreadsheet

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

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 ...

term-ansicolor

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

capybara

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

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.

ffi

Ruby FFI library

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.

gherkin

Gherkin parser

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.

rspec-rails

rspec-rails integrates the Rails testing helpers into RSpec.

mini_magick

Manipulate images with minimal use of memory via ImageMagick

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.

rack

Rack provides a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in the simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web servers, web frameworks, and software in between (the so-called middleware) into a single method call.

cucumber

Behaviour Driven Development with elegance and joy

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...

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.

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...