Trending Projects for September 04, 2011

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

uglifier

Uglifier minifies JavaScript files by wrapping UglifyJS to be accessible in Ruby

guard

Guard is a command line tool to easily handle events on file system modifications.

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...

tilt

Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines

childprocess

This gem aims at being a simple and reliable solution for controlling external programs running in the background on any Ruby / OS combination.

webmock

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

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.

selenium-webdriver

Selenium implements the W3C WebDriver protocol to automate popular browsers. It aims to mimic the behaviour of a real user as it interacts with the application's HTML. It's primarily intended for web application testing, but any web-based task can automated.

yard

YARD is a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language. It enables the user to generate consistent, usable documentation that can be exported to a number of formats very easily, and also supports extending for custom Ruby constructs such as custom class level definitions.

capybara

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

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 ...

ruby_parser

ruby_parser (RP) is a ruby parser written in pure ruby (utilizing racc--which does by default use a C extension). It outputs s-expressions which can be manipulated and converted back to ruby via the ruby2ruby gem. As an example: def conditional1 arg1 return 1 if arg1 == 0 return 0 end becomes: s(:defn, :conditional1, s(:args, :arg1), s(:if, s(:call, s(:...

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.

mongoid

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

devise

Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden

rubyzip

rubyzip is a ruby module for reading and writing zip files

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.

mocha

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

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.

sanitize

Sanitize is an allowlist-based HTML and CSS sanitizer. It removes all HTML and/or CSS from a string except the elements, attributes, and properties you choose to allow.

liquid

A secure, non-evaling end user template engine with aesthetic markup.

ffi

Ruby FFI library

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

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.

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].

bundler

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

gherkin

Gherkin parser

bson

A fully featured BSON specification implementation in Ruby

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.

sinatra

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

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/

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.

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.

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.

sequel

The Database Toolkit for Ruby

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.

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...

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...