Trending Projects for October 02, 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.

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.

tilt

Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines

jasmine

Test your JavaScript without any framework dependencies, in any environment, and with a nice descriptive syntax. Jasmine for Ruby is deprecated. We recommend using the jasmine-browser-runner NPM package instead. It supports all the same scenarios as this gem plus Webpacker. See https://jasmine.github.io/setup/browser.html for setup instructions, and https://github.com/jasmine/jasmine-gem/blob/...

faraday_middleware

Various middleware for Faraday

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 ...

omniauth

A generalized Rack framework for multiple-provider authentication.

simple_form

Forms made easy!

capybara

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

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.

json

This is a JSON implementation as a Ruby extension in C.

mixlib-cli

A simple mixin for CLI interfaces, including option parsing

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.

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.

devise

Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden

puppet

Puppet, an automated administrative engine for your Linux, Unix, and Windows systems, performs administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server configurations) based on a centralized specification.

redis

A Ruby client that tries to match Redis' API one-to-one, while still providing an idiomatic interface.

mocha

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

mixlib-log

A gem that provides a simple mixin for log functionality

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/

railties

Rails internals: application bootup, plugins, generators, and rake tasks.

activemodel

A toolkit for building modeling frameworks like Active Record. Rich support for attributes, callbacks, validations, serialization, internationalization, and testing.

spreadsheet

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

i18n

New wave Internationalization support for Ruby.

pg

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

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.

httparty

Makes http fun! Also, makes consuming restful web services dead easy.

ffi

Ruby FFI library

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.

bson

A fully featured BSON specification implementation in Ruby

tzinfo

TZInfo provides access to time zone data and allows times to be converted using time zone rules.

thor

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

gherkin

Gherkin parser

mini_magick

Manipulate images with minimal use of memory via ImageMagick

mail

A really Ruby Mail handler.

money

A Ruby Library for dealing with money and currency conversion.

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/

sinatra

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

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.

cucumber

Behaviour Driven Development with elegance and joy

faker

Faker, a port of Data::Faker from Perl, is used to easily generate fake data: names, addresses, phone numbers, etc.

rspec-rails

rspec-rails integrates the Rails testing helpers into RSpec.