Trending Projects for January 01, 2012

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

rake-compiler

Provide a standard and simplified way to build and package Ruby extensions (C, Java) using Rake as glue.

geocoder

Object geocoding (by street or IP address), reverse geocoding (coordinates to street address), distance queries for ActiveRecord and Mongoid, result caching, and more. Designed for Rails but works with Sinatra and other Rack frameworks too.

thrift_client

A Thrift client wrapper that encapsulates some common failover behavior.

facter

You can prove anything with facts!

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.

stomp

Ruby client for the Stomp messaging protocol.

awesome_print

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

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/

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.