Trending Projects for September 11, 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

pry

Pry is a runtime developer console and IRB alternative with powerful introspection capabilities. Pry aims to be more than an IRB replacement. It is an attempt to bring REPL driven programming to the Ruby language.

guard

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

tilt

Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines

carrierwave

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

webmock

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

dalli

High performance memcached client for Ruby

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 ...

capybara

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

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.

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.

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.

rubyzip

rubyzip is a ruby module for reading and writing zip files

devise

Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden

awesome_print

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

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.

mocha

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

typhoeus

Like a modern code version of the mythical beast with 100 serpent heads, Typhoeus runs HTTP requests in parallel while cleanly encapsulating handling logic.

rspec-expectations

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

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.

mongoid

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

i18n

New wave Internationalization support for Ruby.

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.

liquid

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

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

responders

A set of Rails responders to dry up your application

thor

Thor is a toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces.

gherkin

Gherkin parser

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].

mini_magick

Manipulate images with minimal use of memory via ImageMagick

bson

A fully featured BSON specification implementation in Ruby

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.

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.

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.

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

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.