Trending Projects for November 20, 2011

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

rex

Rex provides a variety of classes useful for security testing and exploit development.

client_side_validations

Client Side Validations made easy for your Rails 6.1, 7.x, and 8.0 applications

shoulda-matchers

Shoulda Matchers provides RSpec- and Minitest-compatible one-liners to test common Rails functionality that, if written by hand, would be much longer, more complex, and error-prone.

hiredis

Ruby wrapper for hiredis (protocol serialization/deserialization and blocking I/O)

json

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

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.

Platform

Hopefully robust platform sensing

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/...

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.

carrierwave

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

facter

You can prove anything with facts!

omniauth

A generalized Rack framework for multiple-provider authentication.

rubyzip

rubyzip is a ruby module for reading and writing zip files

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.

plist

Plist is a library to manipulate Property List files, also known as plists. It can parse plist files into native Ruby data structures as well as generating new plist files from your Ruby objects.

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.

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.

childprocess

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

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.

sqlite3

Ruby library to interface with the SQLite3 database engine (http://www.sqlite.org). Precompiled binaries are available for common platforms for recent versions of Ruby.

httpi

Common interface for Ruby's HTTP libraries

pdf-reader

The PDF::Reader library implements a PDF parser conforming as much as possible to the PDF specification from Adobe

ffi

Ruby FFI library

term-ansicolor

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

dalli

High performance memcached client for Ruby

rspec-expectations

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

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

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/

redis

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

warden

An authentication library compatible with all Rack-based frameworks

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.

acts_as_list

This "acts_as" extension provides the capabilities for sorting and reordering a number of objects in a list. The class that has this specified needs to have a "position" column defined as an integer on the mapped database table.

httparty

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

braintree

Resources and tools for developers to integrate Braintree's global payments platform.

liquid

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

mongoid

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

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

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.

awesome_print

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

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.

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.

thor

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

mini_magick

Manipulate images with minimal use of memory via ImageMagick