Trending Projects for October 09, 2011

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

rack-protection

Protect against typical web attacks, works with all Rack apps, including Rails

activeadmin

The administration framework for Ruby on Rails.

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/...

parallel

Run any kind of code in parallel processes

omniauth

A generalized Rack framework for multiple-provider authentication.

dalli

High performance memcached client for Ruby

simple_form

Forms made easy!

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.

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.

rubyzip

rubyzip is a ruby module for reading and writing zip files

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.

mixlib-cli

A simple mixin for CLI interfaces, including option parsing

devise

Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden

responders

A set of Rails responders to dry up your application

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.

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/

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

httparty

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

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/

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.

mini_magick

Manipulate images with minimal use of memory via ImageMagick

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.

faker

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

cucumber

Behaviour Driven Development with elegance and joy

sequel

The Database Toolkit for Ruby

rails_best_practices

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

thinking-sphinx

An intelligent layer for ActiveRecord (via Rails and Sinatra) for the Sphinx full-text search tool.

test-unit

test-unit (Test::Unit) is unit testing framework for Ruby, based on xUnit principles. These were originally designed by Kent Beck, creator of extreme programming software development methodology, for Smalltalk's SUnit. It allows writing tests, checking results and automated testing in Ruby.

aasm

AASM is a continuation of the acts-as-state-machine rails plugin, built for plain Ruby objects.

passenger

A modern web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js, optimized for performance, low memory usage and ease of use.